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Cyberflanerie: Who's In Charge? Edition

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Today one of my favorite blogs, my daily dose of bloggy wisdom, Seth Godin's, features "Doing More, Giving More, Who's in Charge?" (Who's in charge? Hey, Hamlet, that is question.)

More cyberflanerie:

Rare books and Iceland: Nancy Marie Brown's blog, God of Wednesday, has a scrumptiously crunchy post about the Fiske collection of Icelandia at Cornell. (I adored Brown's The Far-Traveler, about Gudrid the Far-Traveler of Iceland, and often quote from it in my literary travel writing workshops.)

Totally heart SlowFactory's space scarves Carina Nebula and Dust Devil Lines in the Sand.

In the Globe and Mail: "When a Car Becomes a Cathedral."

On This is Colossal: Eleanor Lutz's deconstructed bird and insect wing patterns.

For the artist-in-charge: Gumroad Resource Center

(Check out my lil' gumroad shop here.)

Eew, Frankensteiny: A worm's mind in a lego body

Soon your robot can put your seatbelt on for you: Kevin Kelly on The 3 Breakthroughs that Have Finally Unleashed AI on the World

Guerrilla mosaic artist in Chicago fills in potholes. (Potholes in Chicago can get so bad... when I lived in Hyde Park there was one year we started calling my section of University Avenue "Iwo Jima.")

Human energy expert Rose Rosetree explains the deeply weird attraction to unwrapping stuff on YouTube.

SOL Literary Magazine is out from San Miguel de Allende and I am delighted to mention that it includes an excerpt from the opening chapter of my latest book, Metaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero and His Secret Book, Spiritist Manual. That's in the nonfiction section with some excellent company, including Joseph Dispenza, Gerard Helferich and Michael K. Schuessler. Thank you, Eva Hunter and Cazz Roberts and all who work to make this beautiful literary magazine possible. It is an honor indeed.

www.sheepdogmovie.com

A documentary film about border collies and sheepherding that I really want to see (splendid trailer!): "Away to Me" by Andrew C. Hadra.

Jenny Redbug's top 5 favorite books for this year (!!!)

My own top 10 list of books read 2014 will be posted shortly.

Your COMMENTS are always welcome.

Cyberflanerie: Definitely Different Edition

The Octopus Mandala

Toy Mammals and Dinosaurs Burdened with Miniature Civilizations

How the Sun Sees You

George Lombardi's Mission to India (well worth the listen)

Ye Olde Roots of the Federal Marijuana Ban

The Art Car Museum

Big Foot or Another Guy in a Ghillie Suit? (The Ghillie Suit reminds me of a neighbor's dog…)

Nancy Marie Brown on the Ornament of the World

P.S. I hear from Clare Sullivan that there are still a few spaces left in what looks like a terrific poetry retreat in Oaxaca, Mexico. Check it out here.

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SURF ON

Madam Mayo:
> The Novel is a Mandala
> Cyberflanerie: Fun in Mexico, Literary Edition
> Top 10 Books Read 2008 (#1 was Nancy Marie Brown's The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking Woman)

And on the home page, www.cmmayo.com
> Upcoming workshops: Literary Travel Writing one day workshop October 11th at the Writer's Center
> Marfa Mondays: Podcast interview with historian John Tutino: Looking at Mexico in New Ways
> Conversations with Other Writers: Podcast interview with novelist Solveig Eggerz

Cyberflanerie: Miscellaneous Neat Stuff Edition

Write Your Own Academic Sentence

Apparently the latest mind-blower is an Interactive Dynamic Shape Display.

Those British pod-like self-driving thingies. (Once again, hat tip to Marginal Revolution).

Who would have thought? A major Mexico collection in Hawaii.

Wordoid a creative naming service. (Which reminds me of Write Your Own Academic Sentence.)

Write Your Own Academic Sentence

Oh, Karma, you are just so fab.

And oh, such very bloggable bee loafers. (For socialite apiculturalists?)

Nancy Marie Brown on Icelandic Witchcraft.

Chip Kidd says Good is Dead. Well, OK.

Write Your Own Academic Sentence

More anon.