Baren Digest               Tuesday, 23 July 2002       Volume 20 : Number 1904


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From: Myron Turner <mturner@Ms.UManitoba.CA>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 06:42:29 -0500
Subject: [Baren 18775] Theory: how groups like baren develop on the web 

There's an internet company called extropia which takes its name from the 
process by which sums become greater than their parts.  They have a page 
giving a short history of how science and then social science developed 
ideas of how things move from 'entropy' to 'extropy' and they apply it to 
the web.  Their short history of 'extropy'  called to mind some  posts of a 
few weeks ago on how baren grew and developed

The URL is:

                     http://www.extropia.com/extropia_explained.html

Myron


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From: G Wohlken <blueman@pantek.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 08:34:18 +0000
Subject: [Baren 18776] Re: Art idea for geocaching 

Does anybody here do geocaching?  I thought of an interesting idea. 
 Wouldn't it be neat to put a tiny woodcut in with the stash in the 
cache container?  It could be rolled gently and placed into a little 
tube.  Some of the cache contents are becoming unique as people try to 
come up with original ideas.  My son from Pennsylvania brought a box of 
his "trades" from 27 geocache finds and people over there in the 
mountains are leaving some intriguing treasures.  I would think artists 
could have a lot of fun with this.  The nice thing about woodcuts is you 
can make a lot of them.  

If you don't know what geocaching is, look here:

http://www.geocaching.com/

Gayle
Ohio, USA

 




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