A cool feature for Google Search. Type in a "who is" question, and, if you are well known enough, a brief description of that person comes back:

Who is Albert Einstein? a German theoretical physicist who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century.

Who is Elvis Presley?   Early in his career he was referred to as The Hillbilly Cat and was soon nicknamed Elvis the Pelvis.

Who is Ken Wilber?     is an American philosopher.

And there are the beginning of the metaphysical:

Who is Truth?   is part of philosophical logic, and within philosophy it is of special interest to metaphysics,

Who knows how good this will get, as search engines improve?  At some point, combine psychological assessments, with Google Search History (and personal Gmail, and personal GDocuments, and GSpreadsheets), and when you ask "What is my perfect job?" Google might respond!! 

Scary.

However, there are still some "bugs" in the ultimate question search engine.

When I ask the ultimate question:

Who am I?  

The top result is a mediocre Jackie Chan film...

I just had a cool idea, when emailing a friend, (and I mean literally *Just*.  I emailed out to him a quick distillation of my thoughts, hit send, and then thought "I have to blog this!"), so I thought I would put it here. 

I have a history here of pontificating, ruminating, on Web 2.0, blogging, and spirituality.  And there have been all types of implementations.

Many times, I've thought to setup a SCOOP style site - for either Skillful Means posts, or for Integral posts.

However, at this point, Zaadz - which already has a bunch of other features that a SCOOP site wouldn't have - needs to do TWO things - and then there the NEED for a SCOOP style site, is made completely superfluous.

Ability to search blogs by tags (does Zaadz already have this?), and then ability to RATE a blogpost.

Most of my blogposts are mediocre.  I accept that. 

BUT

Some of my blogposts are excellent!! 

I know that is true as well. 

If people can RATE a blogpost, and you can lookup a blogpost based on recommendations, ratings, and taggings - well, then why do you need a SCOOP site?  You already have the functionality that, say, DailyKos is so useful for, right?

So - how is that coming!?



also posted at Zaadz

I saw from Integral Options, that scientists are reporting success in quantum teleportation.

That's pretty cool!

At any rate, the Wikipedia has a couple of good articles. 

One on quantum teleportation.

One on why it works, quantum entanglement.

From what I understand, in no way is this the normal understanding of teleportation, but have to do with the weirdness of quantum measurement, and exploiting the properties thereof. 

Two interacting pairs that have been entangled, if you measure one pair, you immediately know the state of the other pair.  From a wikipedia article:

Einstein coined the term "spooky action at a distance" or "SPAD" to describe these situations, which exhibit quantum entanglement. Relativistic quantum field theory requires interactions to propagate at less than the speed of light, so quantum entanglement cannot be used for faster-than-light-speed propagation of matter, energy, or information. However, it must be understood that a change to one entangled particle does indeed affect the other instantaneously, but this is only known after the experiment is performed and notes are compared, therefore there is no way to actually send information faster than the speed of light.