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The Zen Tech Hour
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| with Paul Castro & Glenn Far |
Alternate Mondays, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
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Computer & Internet technology demystified and brought down to Earth for your call ins and questions!
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Where did we get the name Zen Tech from?
"Zen":
Offshoot of Mahayana Buddhism, self-contemplation, and intuition rather than through faith and devotion and that is practiced mainly in China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam and at KVMR every other Monday from 1-2PM PST.
Zen practitioners relish the incongruous, insoluble and ineffable. This means we can answer questions with better questions, like "where are computer cases usually beige?" or "Who really invented the mouse?"
The word Zen has common origins with the English word "Semantic" or "Meaning". We investigate what It All Means, what ever "It" may be on that particular show, whatever "All" means and whatever "Means" means
As for "Mahayana": it means "Big Vehicle", CF: Bolshevik: Zen tech: SUV of the mind.
Win a Chocolate Chip Cookie if this makes sense to you!
"Tech": "Formal Rather Than Practical". Really.
With thanks to http://www.dictionary.com
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| Past Show Notes and Links |
March 31, 2003
Web pages visited during ZenTech on March 31, 2003 |
| http://www.icann.org |
| The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for the IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name system management, and root server system management functions previously performed under U.S. Government contract by IANA and other entities. |
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| http://www.netsol.com |
| The original Domain Name Registrar, now just one of hundreds of Domain Name Registrars and also owned by VeriSign |
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| http://www.google.com |
| Our most favorite search engine used this week to look up; "rich media poor democracy" & "robert fisk" among other things. |
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| http://www.msnbc.com/news/893115.asp?cp1=1 |
| MSNBC article regarding the sacking of NBC reporter Peter Arnett while in Iraq for making less than positive statements about the progress of the war. |
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| http://www.worldlinktv.org/ |
| WorldLink TV is the first national network offering a global perspective on news, current events and culture, presenting viewpoints seldom covered in the U.S. media. |
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| http://www.adsgone.com/ |
| A commercial pop-up ads blocking program. |
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| http://www.mfso.org |
| Military Families Speak Out is an organization of people who are opposed to war in Iraq and who have relatives or loved ones in the military. We were formed in November of 2002 and have contacts with military families throughout the United States, and in other countries around the world. |
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| http://www.freespeech.org |
| Working with activists and artists, Free Speech TV uses television to cultivate an informed and active citizenry in order to advance progressive social change. FSTV airs primarily social, political, cultural, and environmental documentaries acquired from independent producers, and we are beginning to produce and commission original content. |
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| http://www.newamericancentury.org |
| The Project for the New American Century is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to a few fundamental propositions: that American leadership is good both for America and for the world; that such leadership requires military strength, diplomatic energy and commitment to moral principle; and that too few political leaders today are making the case for global leadership. |
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| Links offered by Listeners |
| http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=391165 |
| March 27, 2003 article by Robert Fisk, 'It was an outrage, an obscenity' in the United Kingdom news journal, The Independent. |
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| http://www.aljazeerah.info/ |
| Tom sez, Al Jazeerah being hacked is old news . . . It's up and running. |
