Ciarán Ryan notebook

Bonnie Woods against Church of Scientology

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19990622/ai_n14220623

http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=10304&replies=1#post-72061

http://listserv.uh.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9906&L=dsch-l&T=0&I=-3&P=17166

His tattoo work seems well know - but why aren’t Baldayev’s drawings of Gulag life on the web? Still no interest?

The web has maded information more accessible - but is it getting to the point that it doesn’t exist if not on the web? Cos the kids don’t read books? I dunno. Just a thought.

“I hold my inventive capacity on the stern condition that it must master my whole life, often have complete possession of me, make its own demands on me, and sometimes for months together put everything else away from me… Whoever is devoted to an art must be content to deliver himself up to it and to find his recompense.”

Quote from Dickens on Painter Philip Guston’s wall - in last decade of his life.

In 1999 Guston’s dealer couldn’t source the quote (the web still infant). Nine years later Google has indexed it. The world has changed.

Janet made the internet accessible in 1984, UK

Book: Cybergypsies by Indra Sinha (1999)

50 new portraits by David Hockney - 1999

Concepts are necessary - especially for socialising.

Concept-free perceptions (draw the image - not what you think is there) are obtained by autistics say psychologists Allan Snyder and D John Mitchell. 1999

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_19990618/ai_n14229197

“One celebrated case history of Oliver Sacks, the psychologist, involved savant twins who exchanged prime numbers up to 20 digits long - which would challenge a supercomputer. But their truly extraordinary mathematical talent was revealed most strikingly when Sacks dropped a box of matches. As they cascaded to the floor the twins both muttered “111″. Sacks counted the matches and found exactly 111. “How could you count the matches so quickly?” he asked. “We saw them,” was the reply. Just as we’d consciously “see”, say, two or three matches without having to count them, the twins could “see” almost any number at a glance. “

But Niels Birbaumer, the German neurologist whose team recently fitted two paralysed stroke victims with brain-activated communication devices, believes we may all be able to train ourselves to access our unconscious state.

The rich will want the best and will pay for their children to be engineered.

But how can any child live up to that?

Unhappiness follows?

Throw in chance and…

When the rich make war, it’s the poor that die.

JP Satre

 http://www.ukwatch.net/author/chris_grimshaw

Is this the same Grimshaw who was called an Oxford educated anarchist - June 1999?

J18 etc

Film critic

America out west has space and horizons - doesn’t need the artificial distance of irony.

Film, 1999. Tx: Negative Space

“no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.” This should make it clear that Hume is not saying that testimony could never establish the truth of a miracle, only that the standard of acceptance should be exceedingly high; as Sagan put it, given that we are trying to establish the truth of a very extraordinary claim, it stands to reason that we need an extraordinary degree of evidence to back up such a claim.

Hound dog - elvis - guitar break?