Archive for December, 2006
personal identity - a mirror hypothesis
December 18th, 2006I was nearly three years old the first time I thought “I am me.” I was standing in my bedroom and I was thinking the words, repeating the phrase again and again. I felt a sense of endless expanse and then a sense of vanishing into thin air, of nothingness. I could oscillate between the two feelings as long as I repeatedly thought the words.
At the time… Continue reading
Time’s Person of the Year and Web2.U
December 17th, 2006Time Magazine will hit the newsstands Monday with the Person of the Year issue. And the Person of the Year is….YOU! Congratulations!! 
Now before you get a swelled head, Time has also decided that I’m the Person of the year as well. In fact, Time’s Person of the Year 2006 is anyone using or creating content on the World Wide… Continue reading
The Cure for Diabetes - Repair Neurons
December 15th, 2006A team of researchers has likely discovered the cure for Diabetes! The medical researchers found that diabetes is the result of malfunctioning pain neurons in the pancreas. The nerve cells (neurons) secrete neuropeptides that are instrumental in the function of islet cells. Islet cells produce the insulin that we each use to regulate blood sugar levels. Malfunctioning pancreatic nerve cells fail to produce enough of the neuropeptides… Continue reading
Swivel Inc., may be one of a handful of companies serving Web2.U applications. Even if you haven’t read earlier posts describing the idea of Web2.U, if you’re like most people who hear the term, you’ve got some idea even if you can’t articulate it. Funny thing is, the term Web2.0 has been hyped for a year and a half and that term still… Continue reading





