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Cerberus
Cerberus /ˈsɜrbərəs/,[1] or Kerberos, (Greek form: Κέρβερος, [ˈkerberos])[2] in Greek and Roman mythology, is a multi-headed (usually three-headed) dog, or "hellhound" [1][3][4] with a serpent's tail, a mane of snakes, and a lion's claws.[5] He guards the entrance of the underworld to prevent the dead from escaping and the living from entering. Cerberus is featured in many works of ancient Greek and Roman literature and in works of both ancient and modern art and architecture, although the depiction of Cerberus differs across various renditions. The most notable difference is the number of his heads: Most sources describe or depict three heads; others show Cerberus with two or even just one; a smaller number of sources show a variable number, sometimes as many as 50 or even 100. Mythology[edit] The Twelfth Labor of Heracles[edit] Whilst in the underworld, Heracles met Theseus and Pirithous. Literature[edit] Art[edit] In this vase painting, Heracles leads a two-headed Cerberus out of Hades.

Conscious Being Alliance Biz Stone visits Howard Rheingold's UCB Class - HowardRheingold on blip.tv About this original series I stumbled into cyberspace a long time ago and have been a participant observer ever since . I write books and blogs and teach and speak . On my way to doing all that communicating, I seem to do a fair amount of hunting, gathering, and alchemy -- that is, transforming what I hunt and gather into something of value to someone else. In the olden days, I wrote about a slice of life in my virtual community , so now I am reslicing my life by trying to capture some of the intertwingled online and offline stuff via video. Episodes of I couldn't resist sharing a quick look at the paradise where I am privileged to sit when I do my work. Remarkably generous with his time, considering that he was in the early stages of one of the most important social media platforms of the current era, Biz Stone spent time talking to my Social Media class at UC Berkeley in the Spring of 2009 -- and went out to dinner with us afterward! Short clip from Attention 101.

Research Cyberlaw Clinic Harvard Law School‘s Cyberlaw Clinic, based at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, provides high-quality, pro-bono legal services to appropriate clients on issues relating to the Internet, new technology, and intellectual property. Students enhance their preparation for high-tech practice and earn course credit by working on real-world litigation, client counseling, advocacy, and transactional / licensing projects and cases. The Clinic strives to help clients achieve success in their activities online, mindful of (and in response to) existing law.

CTheory.net Resetting Theory Toward a Theory of Phantasmal Media: An Imaginative Cognition- and Computation-Based Approach to Digital Media D. Fox Harrell Introduction To move beyond this tendentiously posed opposition, a meaningful distinction between these different ways of knowing--the improvisational and the compositional--must inevitably turn upon the axis of interaction. Computational media hold the power to improvisationally and dynamically combine formal manipulation of meaningful elements in new ways, at the same time as responding to user interaction. Yet, humble computing can still intervene beautifully when its ability to structure, change, and respond to information and input is orchestrated with sensitive consideration of the slippery process of human interpretation and experience. Priest: If men don't trust one another, then the earth becomes a hell. Figure 1: Kurosawa's Rashomon is a film where the meaningful difference between multiple narratives adds poignancy.

Post Position » D. Fox Harrell Speaks in Purple Blurb, Monday 11/16 6pm On Monday (November 16) at 6pm in MIT’s room 14E-310, The Purple Blurb series of readings and presentations on digital writing will present a talk by D. Fox Harrell creator of GRIOT, a system that generates poetry and interactive multimedia narrative using his Alloy algorithm. Harrell’s generative poetic systems change elements such as theme, metaphorical exposition, emotional tone, or imagery based upon user input – exploring issues such as contingent and dynamic identities that challenge trite conceptions of identity based in binary oppositions of race, power, gender, and other normative categories.

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CESU Network - Great Basin Information Portal Back to Current CESU Units page The Great Basin is geographically well defined, bounded on the west by the Sierra Nevada range, on the north by the northern edge of southern plains of Idaho, on the east by the Wasatch range of Utah, and on the south by the Mojave desert in southern Utah and Nevada. The objectives of the Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit (CESU) are to: Provide research, technical assistance and education to federal land management, environmental and research agencies and their potential partners; Develop a program of research, technical assistance and education that involves the biological, physical, social, and cultural sciences needed to address resources issues and interdisciplinary problem-solving at multiple scales and in an ecosystem context at the local, regional, and national level; and Place special emphasis on the working collaboration among federal agencies and universities and their related partner institutions

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