Why are we laboring in this guy’s vinyard?- Facebook owned by Murdock

Joy Tang posted this insightful interview with Bruce Sterling on ‘Who is Your Daddy?’ http://blog.whoiswho.de/stories/46088/

Fascinating. He equates the US to the Soviet Union in 1981-with a broken social contract… “Trapped between a collapsing previous order and an extremely unsettled…new order.”

Q: “But you twitter”
A: “I am a big fan of watching the parade there.”

A: …Knowing that our societies have become provisional…

A: “The Balkans is where empires go to die.

Info graphics meets fine art

Brilliant New York artist Mahmoud Hamadani breaks new ground in merging fine art with information design http://bit.ly/dcIw80

2005 Military Spending - U.S. vs. Axis of Evil; 2005; Upholstered Silk on Wood Panel, Wood;

Photos

Fun photo album link

Danny Glover and Valerie Landau at Congressman George Miller’s birthday party

Fun Photo album

TipTapSpeech Engelbart’s chorded keyset for the iPhone

Four years ago, on Engelbart’s 81st birthday, I asked Doug, with all of your ideas still to implement, what small piece would you like to see brought to the attention of the public in the next five years. He answered,

“The Chorded Keyset”

So four years latter we have launched the iPhone app TipTapSpeech.

It took a team of people working with Engelbart. Check out this video of Doug Engelbart, his long time secretary, Mary Coppernoll, Doug’s good friend and co-engineer Bill English and Doug’s former secretary Roberta Engish.

Visit to Sead to the mechanic

Took my car to very cool mechanic from Bosnia, Sead. Fascinating stories of the war.

Sead- European Car Mechanic from Bosnia -now in Oakland

Sead came from a wealthy family in Bosnia, opened a European car repair shop, which he lost in the war, and now is in Oakland. If you were wondering what happened to the former Yugoslavia he has amazing insight and is a dynamic storyteller…and you can have your car fixed…at reasonable prices….

But wait!!! There is more…he is quite the ladies man.

He is working behind another repair shop at 1237 39th Street in Oakland. 510-355-4600

Doug Engelbart turns 85

The celebration at the Tech Museum was a historic event. Friends, family and colleagues honored Doug Engelbart with music, dance, food and merriment.

Douglas Engelbarts 85th Birthday Celebration at The Tech Museum- Photo by Dustin Jensen

http://www.flickr.com/photos/edmdusty/4327955363/sizes/l/in/set-72157623220231091/

Steve Wozniak and a few hundred people celebrate Engelbart's birthday

Dustin Jensen documented the event in photos:
and my niece Nicole Landau video taped the event.

A few hundred invited guest arrived in person and several friends gave live video greetings including Joy Tang from Taiwan, Eileen Clegg from Bodega Bay, Ted Nelson from New York and Brian Fisher from Vancouver.

It’s about the journey

Engelbart Quote from 2004…

The paradigm is kind of like the ability to see what’s really feasible..and would be well worth while. It’s going to be a different world, we are going to have different customs, different skills, a whole bunch of things, and no one thing is going to fix it. It’s going to be a concurrent evolution that has got to progress. The best thing we could possibly do is not think that somebody is going to tell you what “the answer” is but somebody that says, “Here is a process that will help facilitate optimally that evolution.”

Quote from Cringely interview in 2004 http://valerielandau.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=238&message=1

Andres: retail performance artist

Performance Art in the Dressing Room

Retail Performance Art: Spontaneous, live retail commentary

Andres seemed to vanish from the store. His mother, an experienced shopper, saw his shoes under the dressing room door.

Poll: What is Douglas Engelbart\’s greatest contribution?

Poll: What is Douglas Engelbart\’s greatest contribution?.

Doug Engelbart 85th Birthday is January 30

Happy birthday Dr. Engelbart. If you love Engelbart, please check out our book blog or you can order the book “The Engelbart Hypothesis: dialogs with Douglas Engelbart” directly from our indie publisher NextPress or from Amazon.

We had an amazing 85th birthday celebration with a few hundred people at The Tech Museum in San Jose. Photos from the event on January 30, 2010–I’d love to see someone do an astrological analysis of Doug’s birthday January 30, 1925.

Doug Engelbart 85th Birthday Party

While teaching a series of courses at California State University on Applied Engelbart, Engelbart I asked him what he still wanted to see happen in the world. He said he would like the notion of chorded texting to take off. So for the past few years I’ve been working (on a volunteer basis) with some amazing people: Evan Schaffer, Rob Stephenson, Eric Matsuno to bring this to the marketplace. We now have an iPhone App The Engelbartian chorded typing app: TipTapSpeech

TipTapSpeech Engelbart's chorded typing app