Sunday, May 16, 2010
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From cocoon forth a butterfly
by Emily Dickinson
From cocoon forth a butterfly
As a lady from her door
Emerged - a summer afternoon -
Repairing everywhere,
Without design, that I could trace,
Except to stray abroad
On miscellaneous enterprise
The clovers understood.
Her pretty parasol was seen
Contracting in a field
Where men made hay, then struggling hard
With an opposing cloud,
Where parties, phantom as herself,
To Nowhere seemed to go
In purposeless circumference,
As 't were a tropic show.
And notwithstanding bee that worked,
And flower that zealous blew,
This audience of idleness
Disdained them, from the sky,
Till sundown crept, a steady tide,
And men that made they hay,
And afternoon, and butterfly,
Extinguished in its sea.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Monday, April 26, 2010
Compassion for all Things
"Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened."
Anatole France
Anatole France
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Joshua Klein and the Intelligence of Crows
Joshua Klein will hack anything that moves -- his list includes "social systems, computer networks, institutions, consumer hardware and animal behavior." His latest project, though charmingly low-tech, has amazing implications for the human-animal interface.
Right now, Klein is working at Frog Design as a Principle Technologist, while developing mobile/social applications, health care-related systems and other tools that improve people's lives. He's the author of the novel Roo'd, which was the first modern book (after Tarzan) to be ported to the iPhone.
"Klein envisions a new symbiotic relationship between these intelligent birds and the humans
that encroach on their habitat. ... Why not turn a longstanding rivalry between man and crow
into something that profits both species?"
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