Kester Brewin

Nic is/was/shall always be a co-conspirator. He’s a very fine designer, and is graphing a complex and beautiful path on the axes of spirituality and design. He’s finally relented and started a blog. I’ve added him to my Blogs list, and encourage you to click there often. Technorati Tags: Art, Blogging, Design, Spirituality

Horrific story here of co-workers not noticing for 5 days that a colleague had died. “The moral of the story: don’t work too hard, nobody notices anyway.” Technorati Tags: Death, Work

This year’s Reith Lectures, to be broadcast shortly on the BBC, are to be given by Daniel Barenboim under the title ‘In the Beginning was Sound’. I’m hoping they live up to the excellent title, which reminded my of Claude Levi-Strauss’ Overture introduction to his seminal work on myths The Raw and The Cooked, which [...]

Article in Wired, here. “If Friday’s boat from St. Mary was cancelled, there might be six people in the village that needed to know. Armstrong found consistently they would all have that information within hours, even without a formal distribution system, and few uninterested people would be burdened with the knowledge.” Technorati Tags: Technology

Two quick links: Firstly, I am looking forward to sharing some thoughts on leadership in emerging organizations at the blah… learning day. I’ll be joined by Maggi Dawn, who will reflect on trying to re-imagine leadership in the ancient structures of the Anglican church and Ana Draper of L8R, who has recently completed her MSc [...]

Nice Web 2.0 idea. Think Google Earth and Flickr’s lovechild. Technorati Tags: Platial, Technology

A couple of recent posts I’ve read to link together: In an excellent post here Will Samson explores the failings of the religious right in US politics. “Beyond the public moral failures, however I believe that 2006 will be the beginning of significant political failures for the religious right. I believe we will begin to [...]

Article here. “Evangelists bid, eager to save a sinner. Atheists bid, hoping to keep Mr. Mehta in their fold. When the auction stopped on Feb. 3 after 41 bids, the buyer was Jim Henderson, a former evangelical minister from Seattle, whose $504 bid prevailed. Mr. Henderson wasn’t looking for a convert. He wanted Mr. Mehta [...]

Technorati Tags: cartoons, IT, Spring

Thanks to Jonny for the heads up on (sic). Just a note – if you’re in the US the prices, including delivery are approx $23 for hardback and $15 for paperback. From the UK the postage can be a lot. (Hardback $30 inc. delivery and $22 for paperback, about £18 or £14) However, I can [...]