Life refused to remain life-sized.

As a young man he had shared a room with a painter whose paintings had grown larger and larger as he tried to get the whole of life into his art. 'Look at me,' he said before he killed himself, 'I wanted to be a miniaturist and I've got elephantiasis instead!' The swollen events of the night of the crescent knives reminded Nadir Khan of his room-mate, because life had once again, perversely, refused to remain life-sized. It had turned melodramatic: and that embarrassed him.


Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. pag. 48, 49, Jonathan Cape Ltd, London, 1981

About

This website attempts to reunite the bits and pieces of my online fragmented identity.

The information found here is a real time cross-pollination of several public websites based on your words. The offspring of your search is an hybrid of pictures I have upload, texts I have written or taken from books and documents I have created. As more sources are added to the semantic web, the electronic self expands to what one day might be my encoded representation.

I wrote the code behind the machine that analyzes my online existence. The code is free, libre, open and accessible online.

Try out some words: Egypt, book, death or Curriculum Vitae.

Internet myths

In one of the DVD's extras, open source developer Paul Garrin describes how old media co-opts the Net into the centralized model of cable TV, the content from one edge not reaching the other edge. Garrin recounts the myths of the Internet, how it's really not public but now resting upon private infrastructure, how it does have borders (BGP firewalls serving as its customs police), how it's a loose confederation of private nation-states who agree——but are not required——to exchange info packets. Its center is the root domain, with a very hierarchical authority and corporate control. His Namespace mode is peer-to-peer situation for domains. This extra serves as a brief but interesting introduction to a topic too little discussed, the privatization of the Internet."


source: http://www.leonardo.info/reviews/nov2006/net_mosher.html

We nurture death.

"I'm here, aren't I?" Her familiar little gestures soothed my heart like a
healing balm. "If this is death," I thought to myself, "then death is not
so bad." "It's true," said Naoko, "death is nothing much. It's just death.
Things are so easy for me here." Naoko spoke to me in the spaces
between the crashing of the dark waves.
Eventually, though, the tide would pull back, and I would be left on
the beach alone. Powerless, I could go nowhere; sadness itself would
envelop me in deep darkness until the tears came. I felt less that I was
crying than that the tears were simply oozing out of me like
perspiration.
I had learned one thing from Kizuki's death, and I believed that I had
made it a part of myself in the form of a philosophy: "Death exists, not
as the opposite but as a part of life."
By living our lives, we nurture death. True as this might be, it was
only one of the truths we had to learn. What I learned from Naoko's
death was this: no truth can cure the sadness we feel from losing a
loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness, can cure
that sorrow. All we can do is see that sadness through to the end and
learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing
the next sadness that comes to us without warning. Hearing the waves
at night, listening to the sound of the wind, day after day I focused on
these thoughts of mine. Knapsack on my back, sand in my hair, I
moved farther and farther west, surviving on a diet of whisky, bread
and water.

Murakami, Haruki. Norwegian Wood. pag. 211, vol 2, The Harvill press, London, 2000

I don't know you well enough to force stuff on you.

"But oh, gee, what a relief it was last Sunday! Going up to the laundry deck with you, watching the fire, drinking beer, singing songs. I don't know how long it's been since I had such a total sense of relief. People are always trying to force stuff on me. The minute they see me they start telling me what to do. At least you don't try to force stuff on me."

"I don't know you well enough to force stuff on you."

"You mean, if you knew me better, you'd force stuff on me like everybody else?"

"It's possible," I said. "That's how people live in the real world: forcing stuff on each other."

"You wouldn't do that. I can tell. I'm an expert when it comes to forcing stuff and having stuff forced on you. You're just not that type. That's why I can relax with you. Do you have any idea how many people there are in the world who like to force stuff on people and have stuff forced on them? Tons! And then they make a big fuss, like, 'I forced her,' 'You forced me'! That's what they like. But I don't like it. I just do it 'cause I have to."

"What kind of stuff do you force on people or do they force on you?" Midori put a piece of ice in her mouth and sucked on it for a while.
Murakami, Haruki. Norwegian Wood. pag 39, vol 2, The Harvill press, London, 2000

Varieties of disciplinarity

Interdisciplinarity involves attacking a subject from various angles and methods, eventually cutting across disciplines and forming a new method for felicitious understanding of the subject.

Multidisciplinary examines multiple subjects from different disciplines but only uses the methods of one discipline in its examination.

A transdisciplinary approach dissolves boundaries between disciplines.

Crossdisciplinarity describes a method that crosses disciplinary boundaries but does so from a foreign angle and with no cooperation.

Non-disciplinarity is a conscious and deliberate rather than ignorant disregard of the expectation that one should remain within the subject matter and methodology of a defined discipline.

(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdisciplinary#Varieties_of_disciplinarity)

Truth defined in one sentence.

Correspondence theory
Truth or the falsity of a representation is determined in principle solely by how it relates to objective reality, by whether it accurately describes that reality.
(Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle)

Coherence theory
Truth is primarily a property of whole systems of propositions, and can be ascribed to individual propositions only according to their coherence with the whole.

Constructivist theory
Truth is constructed by social processes, is historically and culturally specific, and that it is in part shaped through the power struggles within a community.

Consensus theory
Truth is whatever is agreed upon.
(Jürgen Habermas)

Pragmatic theory
Truth is verified and confirmed by the results of putting one's concepts into practice.
(Charles Peirce, William James, and John Dewey)

Minimalist (deflationary) theory
The label truth is a tool of discourse used to express agreement, to emphasize claims, or to form certain types of generalizations.

Performative theory
To say a statement is true is not to make a statement about a statement, but rather to perform the act of agreeing with, accepting, or endorsing a statement.
(P. F. Strawson)

Redundancy theory
Asserting that a statement is true is completely equivalent to asserting the statement itself.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth

species dependent on sexual reproduction are by definition mortal.

His first work, The Topology of Meiosis, published in 2002, had a considerable impact. It established, for the first time, on the basis of irrefutable thermodynamic arguments, that the chromosomal separation at the moment of meiosis which creates haploid gametes is in itself a source of instability. In other words, all species dependent on sexual reproduction are by definition mortal.

Houellebecq, Michel. Atomised. pag. 357. Vintage U.K., 2001.