I’m pleased to announce the launch of the new www.jalaka.com website (a major re-design of the 2005 original).  Along with this launch, there is a much improved version of the Flash Global Network Map v6.0 app, a new version of the AION : AstroChart v1.5 app, and a slight upgrade to the Tzolkin Calculator v1.4 app. [...]

I created a custom ActionScript class for converting a String value to Boolean value.  Why would I need that?  In this case, I have an application that imports customization parameters from an XML file.  The XML parameters can accept any value such as “true” or “false”, however, they are all naturally imported as String data [...]

On November 11, 2011 (11.11.11), the much anticipated Thrive film and website premiered at locations worldwide.  The premiere of the Thrive film and website is significant, as these media are perhaps the most comprehensive and compelling forms of media (so far) communicating one of the most important messages in the history of humanity.  I highly [...]

These are the preliminary architecture and design plans for a “Rainbow Dream Temple” being collaboratively produced by a group of creatives for the Maui Source event in early 2012 ( http://sourcemaui.com ): The temple space is intended to inspire sacred space, and will host a wedding ceremony and several workshops on dreams and rainbow physics. It [...]

Included here is a description of a spontaneous vision which came to me around an hour before I received the news of Steve Job’s death. While I had not immediately realized it at the time, in retrospect, the vision now appears entirely related, and very likely synchronous with the actual last moment of Job’s life. [...]

I’m assigning the term “Archetypal Semiotic Transference” (AST) to describe instances of semiosis where a symbol (or set of symbols) and its interpretation(s) in one disciplinary knowledge domain appears directly (and perhaps coincidently?) similar to a symbol (or set of symbols) and its interpretation(s) within an entirely different disciplinary knowledge domain.  By similarity, I mean similar in both [...]

In 2009, I was enrolled by the design firm Ursa Minor to be involved with Core Integral in a collaborative team production of the “The Integral Approach” interactive courses in Integral Theory, created by Ken Wilber and Clint Fuhs.   This initial 8 DVD interactive instructional media, “Course 1: Essential Integral”, is the first of a [...]

As an active participant in the Information / Communications Technology domain (ICT), this is perhaps one of the most influential videos I have seen in the last several years.  We are now, again (as with the emergence of the Internet), on the verge of a new great frontier in human ingenuity. I’ve been tracking the [...]

Douglas Rushkoff drops the word at SXSW conference on programming reality: “We are attempting to operate our society on obsolete code. … Legacy sytems to legacies we don’t even remember. … How much of this is the bias of the medium, and how much is it the biases of the people who program our technology [...]

Greg Lynn explains the concept behind New City, a new virtual world.  The architectural topology of such a world “map” is based on transmorphic manifolds, and context relative perceptive “lenses”: