David W. Boles' RelationShaping http://relationshaping.com/ The Spear of Technology Piercing the Body In Situ ->( en Copyright 2008 Wed, 14 May 2008 10:32:12 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Sniffing Out Sweetheart Site Hosting Deals
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]]> http://relationshaping.com/2008/05/violent-imagination-shaping-brain-reality.html http://relationshaping.com/2008/05/violent-imagination-shaping-brain-reality.html RelationShaping brain changes dna effect games killing perception video violence Mon, 12 May 2008 08:23:31 -0500 Memeingful Online Learning

Picture Yourself Learning American Sign Language, Level 1Hand Jive Book Cover!

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We also live in a Semaphoric world where specific images have a specific, non-negotiable, meaning that cannot, and must not, be open to individual interpretation.  In the image below, those flags, in that exact position, mean "Romeo" or "R" and if you don't understand that Semaphore, you are unable to communicate or be understood.
 

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"The greatest challenge to mankind over the next century will be the failure of science and technology to replace the death of the old God."

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Two recent stories about The Suicide Heart and a Craving for Fried Chicken lead us into the realm of the uncanny. 

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Notice I said "writing desk" and not "computer desk" because there's a big, scarring, difference between the two that you shall soon learn.

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As we age, and become less than we were, technology strives to keep us alive, to help the heart keep pumping and to keep the skeletal architecture of us strong and the impulse of our muscle twitching.

]]> http://relationshaping.com/2008/04/disposable-people.html http://relationshaping.com/2008/04/disposable-people.html Technology elder care healing living medicine technology Tue, 08 Apr 2008 09:00:48 -0500 The Blogging Pain of Moving Parts moving a blog from one publishing platform to another.

I am presently oozing pain and suffering rivulets of blood loss today as my Urban Semiotic blog suffers against a threatening weekend of technical support inaction and un-styled blog content and borked URLs.

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