Online Social Optimization
June 10th, 2011

Modern Mythology: Lord Shiva, King of Ghosts

Myths play out in the world, and Shiva, the Auspicious One, has taken the stage to mark an inauspicious time. As the mass media stripmines meaning from our culture, all areas under advertisings vacuous gaze become cremation grounds, and there Shiva lingers to redeem or reclaim .

Shiva, king of ghosts, awakens to a field of culturally dispossessed, economic dead, erupting in violence, abandon and force. Shiva, Tripurantakmurthi, destroyer of the cities of Gold, Silver and Iron, whose aspect is fire as both an end and a renewal.

Ibn Arabi wrote that one should not expect the angelic realm will show itself in a physical manifestation, instead look for the subtle emotional sense that presents itself as a form of communication. In the same way there will be no physical manifestation of Shiva, his body, manifested in its malefic sense, is a mental fire that ignites revolution and change, a broken urban facade awaiting destruction, an unsustainable infrastructure that fosters its own end.

via Modern Mythology: Lord Shiva, King of Ghosts.

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June 5th, 2011

Free Tarot Readings on #Android | via @theTarotbot

While I know there are tarot card readers for the ipad and the iphone, tarotbot is only available for the android. However, the developer is making everything open source, and even working with artists to develop new tarot decks as well as creating new kinds of decks. This is more than just free tarot readings on your android device – this is the start of a digital community of tarot readers and artists.

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June 5th, 2011

Pop Culture Legos: @progbot @promemetician @producerlymedia and others | Wes Unruh

@ProgBot isn’t a bot – it’s tied into a few things, but by no means is it automated – I just use it to retweet all the bizarre left-wign reporting on right wing movements that I run across in my day, sifting the streams of information as they come in…  and it initiates a number of events downstream as a result – occasionally being retweeted in its own right.

@promemetician is everything I touch online plus things I want to track, combining alerts, my own activities, and the youtube account of the same name – as such it’s an easy way for me to sort back through the day and find a particular piece of something I noticed. Perfect for short-term references, and chock full of daily news and commentary.

@producerlymedia is a media highlights news feed I’ve set up long enough ago that I’ve forgotten how to access it – it is truly a servitor off on its own, likely at any moment to stop working, yet continuing to wake momentarily now and then to provide some automagical insight into contemporary machinations behind the scenes in quaint and traditional media.

via pop culture legos: @progbot @promemetician @producerlymedia and others | Wes Unruh.

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