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Consciousness-related topics

29 October 2013 by Dan Webb Leave a Comment

Lisa Website The Sentient Body is an invitation to step deeply into our experience of being, to inhabit our personal landscape of the body and, through the wisdom of these deep encounters, weave ourselves into the greater landscape of the Earth. We invite you to explore the world of sensation and subtle experiences; we invite you to step into the Sentient Body and from there explore and participate with the underlying essence level of being.
Vision: Can Human Beings Drop Their Divisive, Reactionary Thinking and Move to a Higher Level?
Peace Talks Radio: The Neuroscience of Getting Along
Peace Talks Radio: Nonviolent Communication with Marshall Rosenberg
Help Create a U.S. Department of Peace
Micro-lending in developing nations empowers women and families with self-reliance and self-responsibility. (And it makes money for the lender!)
A progressive manifesto by Robert Reich applies the lessons learned from the Great Depression recovery about how broadly shared prosperity creates sustained growth and global competitiveness.

Diaphragmatic Breathing Exercises
Eckhart Tolle on A New Earth — discussions with Oprah Winfrey about awakening
the observant presence, the attentive stillness, the space of awareness between the thoughts

Byron Katie’s process of inquiry (“The Work”) that enables you to identify and question thoughts and beliefs that cause you suffering.
It’s a way to understand what’s hurting you and how to change that.

Quotations by Albert Einstein
Regina Brett’s 50 life lessons — essential wisdom
The Conscious Army in a Spiritual Conspiracy — Love is the New Religion
TED — ideas worth spreading

  • Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist, had a stroke in her left brain, observed her discovery of nirvana in her right brain, and recovered to tell us about it
  • Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love, speaks about creative inspiration, having a genius vs. being a genius, and calling upon the incomprehensible spirit that comes with the perfect content, on loan, while you go about doing your job.
  • Ray Kurzweil: How technology’s accelerating power will transform us
  • If the world is not as it seems … If the world is as we are … — shifts in sensation, reasoning and perspective — six-year-olds learn math and science principles by experimentations using the $100 laptop
Filed Under: Consciousness, Resource Links

Creating Effective Relationships,
Personally and Professionally

27 June 2012 by Dan Webb Leave a Comment

The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni


  1. #1: Absence of Trust — The fear of being vulnerable with team members prevents the building of trust within the team.
  2. #2: Fear of Conflict — The desire to preserve artificial harmony stifles the occurrence of productive, ideological conflict.  “Conflict purifies a commitment.” – Andrew Ferguson
  3. #3: Lack of Commitment — The lack of clarity or buy-in prevents team members from making decisions they will stick to.
  4. #4: Avoidance of Accountability — The need to avoid interpersonal discomfort prevents team members from holding one another accountable for their behaviors and performance.
  5. #5: Inattention to Results — The pursuit of individual goals and personal status erodes the focus on collective success.



Guiding Principles of Team Effectiveness


The McCarthy Show – Core Protocols



Filed Under: Collaboration, Consciousness, Relationships, Resource Links, Systems Thinking, Technology Management

Recommended movies and TV shows

23 June 2012 by Dan Webb Leave a Comment

Some that I’m enjoying now or that I watched recently


  1. The Adventures of Merlin (3 seasons X 13 episodes, so you can get quite immersed) – Arthurian tales with enough grounding in the archetypal stories that they have my respect, simple enough in story construction that they’ll be appreciated by all ages.  I enjoy the acting, costumes, swordplay, etc.  I think it’s quite good at dealing with questions of identity, which the original archetypal stories did masterfully.
  2. Masterpiece Contemporary: The Last Enemy (5 episodes)
  3. The Story of India (6 hours) – The history of mankind in general and of India specifically, told by a guy whose interesting and engaging as a person and who clearly understands and respects the many philosophies that have moved through India.
  4. Empires: The Medici, Godfathers of the Renaissance (4 episodes X 1 hour) – looks interesting.  I haven’t watched it yet.
  5. The Tudors – I’ll bet you’ve seen it.
  6. The Forsyte Saga (10 episodes)
  7. Limitless – a movie you’ve probably seen


All-time Favorites


  1. Dangerous Beauty (my favorite movie)
  2. The Red Violin – You MUST have seen this one already.
  3. Gloomy Sunday (CD only) – Just watch it!
  4. Masterpiece Theater! Foyle’s War – Made me think of my Edinburgh days as a boy.
  5. Prime Suspect (7 seasons) – Helen Mirren is awesome!
  6. The State Within (7 hours)
  7. A Good Woman
  8. Chocolat
  9. Don Juan DeMarco (CD only)
  10. De-Lovely
  11. Malena
  12. Cinema Paradiso
  13. ALL Jane Austin movies
  14. Paris, Je T’aime
  15. Horatio Hornblower: The New Adventures – 2 full-length films – I wish there were 20.
  16. Smilla’s Sense of Snow
  17. The Count of Monte Cristo
  18. Tea with Mussolini


Off-the-Wall or Somewhat Riskier to Modern Tastes


  1. Deep Water
  2. Big Love (CD only — 5 seasons X 3 or 4 discs per season, typically 2 episodes per disc as I recall) – Fun view into relationships and cults
  3. Island at War (6 episodes)
  4. The Grand (10 eposides)
  5. To Serve Them All My Days (13 episodes)
  6. Woman on Top
  7. Basic Instinct 2




Filed Under: Dan's Frequently Visited Links, Entertainment, Resource Links, Search & Reference

Sustainable Environment

28 October 2011 by Dan Webb Leave a Comment

Dan’s favorite renewable energy links.

TheGreenTrackers.com — Analysis about commercializing algae-to-biofuel technology
Netflix: Fuel (Fields of Fuel) — Change Your Fuel, Change Your World
Federal incentives for renewable energy
Solar roadways — generate electricity, demark lanes with lights instead of painted stripes, sense pedestrians and animals and flash messages in the roadway ahead of oncoming motorists
ClimateProgress.org — by Joe Romm, PhD in Physics from MIT — “The Web’s most influential climate-change blogger” — Time Magazine
Yale Project on Climate-Change Communication
www.politifact.com — Rick Perry says more and more scientists are questioning global warming
PolitiFact has, once again, conducted an extensive review of the scientific research and questions around climate change, including how much is man made and the degree of consensus among scientists. That case has long been closed, despite the political echo chamber on the right. This is worth taking 5 minutes to read no matter what your existing beliefs are about the science around climate change.

Filed Under: Renewable Energy, Resource Links, Sustainable Environment

Sports & Recreation

28 October 2011 by Dan Webb Leave a Comment
  • sea kayaking
  • surfing
  • Coastal Marine Forecast National Weather Service, Seattle
  • Tides near Seattle
  • Tides near Port Townsend and the San Juan Islands
  • Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission
  • Oregon State Parks
Filed Under: Resource Links, Sports & Recreation

Dan’s Frequently Visited Links

28 October 2011 by Dan Webb Leave a Comment
  • Last Tango in Halifax
  • Happy Valley (another series shot in Halifax that’s as gritty as Last Tango is tender)
  • TVGuide.com — TV broadcast schedule for 98008
  • Eastside movie listings — Fandango.com
  • Seattle movie listings — Fandango.com
  • South Center and Auburn movie listings — 98188
  • Moviefone.com movie listings for 98007
  • IMDB.com movie database
  • Spiritual Cinema Circle
  • Kids in Mind movie reviews
  • Netflix.com — last-3-month rental history
    (See button at bottom to request full history by e-mail.)
  • daytime activities, getaways, restaurants, evening activities
  • e-greeting cards
    • http://www.jacquielawson.com (member through 2011)
    • http://americangreetings.com
    • http://rubberchickencards.com
    • http://bluemountain.com
    • http://webmaniadesigns.com
    • http://www.original-cards.com/  (some are naughty)
    • http://egreeting.com
    • http://mondovideo.com
  • Seattle Times NWSource.com — very useful collection of local relevance
  • Seattle.CitySearch.com
  • Yahoo! — activities in Bellevue
  • Yahoo! — WA state resources
  • Live camera views around the Seattle area
  • Live camera views around Washington State
  • Astronomy picture of the day
  • The Merriam-Webster Dictionary
  • The Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
  • The Merck Manual of Medical Information — Home Edition
  • US West White Pages (people)
  • US West Yellow Pages (businesses)
  • Quotations
  • Song lyrics (without all the popups)
  • Local area ski conditions and snow expected
  • WA DOT Mountain Pass Report — cameras
  • NWS Weather Forecast for the Cascades — search for “ENUMCLAW” (bottom of page)
  • Crystal Mountain Ski Area — currrent conditions camera —             888-754-6199
  • Summit At Snoqualmie Ski Area  — currrent conditions camera — grooming report — trail maps — NWS forecast for Snoqualmie Pass —             206-236-1600
  • Stevens Pass Ski Area — currrent conditions camera, pass camera
  • Mt. Baker Ski Area —             206-634-0200
  • Mission Ridge Ski Area — current conditions
  • Ski Report for Washington
  • Pacific Northwest Ski Conditions
  • National Data Buoy Center Forecast for Coast of WA and Strait of San Juan de Fuca
  • Microsoft’s MSDN Online
  • The Hunger Site — donate food to hungry people at no cost
  • Notes from The Conscious Heart, by Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks
  • Windows 2000 tips
  • Political action
Filed Under: Dan's Frequently Visited Links, Resource Links

Entertainment Links

28 October 2011 by Dan Webb Leave a Comment

…and other handy sites!

Dan’s favorite jokes
Pretty Good Jokes from “Prairie Home Companion”
The Capitol Steps
The Onion
The Daily Show with John Stewart — The Colbert Report
Doodle.com — Find a time for a meeting by enabling invitees to show their best times
Create a Facebook Like button or Open Graph tags
Join.me — free group screen sharing
(For $30/month or $300/year, Join.me Pro enables you to use a branded, persistent address – e.g., https://join.me/DanWebb – as well as some additional features.)
What is “Scrum” agile product development? (video 8:00)
Geek Wisdom by Technology Entrepreneur Paul Graham
Google Reader for RSS feeds
Resources for Web developers — XML resources for developers — Live Face on the Web (for commercial promotion)
Android App of the Week — Browse the applications Dan uses on his Android phone
Synch your Outlook contacts with your Gmail contacts — CompanionLink ($40)
Synch your Outlook calendar with your Gmail calendar — Google Calendar Sync (free)
WebSharing — Browse the files on your Android device and download them to a local folder — Get the app
Learn About App Inventor for the Android operating system
Clock and stopwatch — in a popup window — a fun analog clock for stoners (IE only)
Search & Reference (dictionary & thesaurus) — urban dictionary, Wikipedia —
Google.com, HotBot.com advanced search —

Search the US Patent & Trademark Office’s public records — Excite photos

  • Maps — Google maps, Yahoo maps, MapQuest — World Atlas — Holt, Rinehart, Winston World Atlas — satellite photos — Microsoft campus map
  • Measures & Conversions — units of measure (conversion), world time converter, current time (accurate to .3 sec), time references, phases of the moon — currency conversions
  • local free WiFi hotspots — wireless coffee shops
  • King County Library System — Books24x7.com

Weather, Sports, Recreation & Health — 10-day forecast for Bellevue — hour-by-hour forecast — pollen forecast

Travel & Transportation — Puget Sound Traffic Map — Puget Sound Traffic Cameras
Washington State Ferries — Alamo Car Rental — Thrifty Airport Parking coupon — WallyPark coupon

News — Listen to NPR over KUOW — Windows Media — high bandwidth (20 to 135 Kbps)

Music — Pandora.com — KMTT.com (The Mountain) — KPIG.com — RadioTower.com — Radio-Locator.com

Financial Info and Purchasing

Intellectual Property Protection

Collaboration — Common Errors in English — the meanings and origins of phrases

Security and Privacy — Microsoft Windows Security Essentials (free malware protection)

my recipes

Other Handy Sites

  • http://ADrive.com — Transfer large files
  • http://YouSendIt.com — Transfer large files
  • Qwest White Pages (people)
  • Qwest Yellow Pages (businesses) — Opt out of Yellow Pages delivery to save paper and energy
  • InfoSpace.com White Pages and Yellow Pages
  • Ultimate White Pages
  • Stop delivery of printed phone books
  • Look up Telephone Area Codes and Country Codes
  • Use an area code to find a location
  • Look up Telephone Prefix Locations by Area Code
  • country calling codes from anywhere to anywhere
  • U.S. Postal ZIP Codes — Find a ZIP Code for an address — Find all cities in a ZIP Code
  • Hold my mail while I’m away
  • US Time Zones
  • Time Zones Worldwide
  • US Federal holidays
  • Random quotes
  • Roberts Rules of Order online
  • Free Astrology Charts
  • convert units of measure
  • ZipInfo.com (latitude-longitude, time zones, etc.) — enter ZIP Code, return city — enter city, return ZIP Codes
  • Create PDF files online
  • Vixy.net — Convert a Flash Video (FLV) file (YouTube’s videos, etc.) to an MPEG4/AVI/MOV/MP4/MP3/3GP file online
  • Check your own e-mail from anywhere with a Web browser — E-MailAnywhere.com 
  • Check your Web browser’s capabilities
  • Display all the Web server variables
  • RealGuide — streaming media content

 

Filed Under: Entertainment, Resource Links

Systems Thinking

28 October 2011 by Dan Webb Leave a Comment

Introduction to Systems Thinking — an approach to understanding the behavior of complex systems over time. It deals with internal feedback loops and time delays that affect the behavior of the entire system. What makes using system dynamics different from other approaches to studying complex systems is the use of feedback loops, stocks and flows. These elements help describe how even seemingly simple systems display baffling nonlinearity.
Systems Theory
System Dynamics Modeling — Using system dynamics modeling of a “bathtub dynamic,” here’s how to show people the quantitative impact of CO2 on climate change and how the most common proposals for dealing with the problem will affect the rate at which CO2 will build up in the atmosphere.
Best Practices in Technology Management
Guiding Principles of Team Effectiveness
“Where Good Ideas Come From” by Steven Johnson (video 4:00) — Steven’s TED presentation (video 18:00)
Basic Concepts of Quality Management
Balanced Scorecard — Handbook for Basic Pocess Improvement
Murphy’s Law and its corollaries

 

Filed Under: Resource Links

Collaboration

27 October 2011 by Dan Webb 2 Comments
  • Demo of Dan’s Collaboration Environment for Virtual Teams
  • Common Errors in English
  • Proper use of the comma
  • the meanings and origins of phrases
  • Join the Microsoft Office Internet Free/Busy Service today!
    This enables others to invite you to meetings using Outlook and see what times you have available on your Outlook Calendar.
Filed Under: Collaboration, Resource Links

Intellectual Property Protection

27 October 2011 by Dan Webb Leave a Comment
  • IP is the inventor’s until transferred
  • Copyright:  What is a “Work Made for Hire”?
  • Trade Secret Concerns Checklist
Filed Under: Intellectual Property Protection, Resource Links
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