I have been tagged by Bora with a bit complexed meme, more as blogging and scientific experiment in cyberspace evolution and I’d like to see how it has progressed so far, from ‘my grand-grand parent’ to parent. Here are the rules, and my answers:

There are a set of questions below that are all of the form, “The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is…”. Copy the questions, and before answering them, you may modify them in a limited way, carrying out no more than two of these operations:

* You can leave them exactly as is.

* You can delete any one question.

* You can mutate either the genre, medium, or subgenre of any one question. For instance, you could change “The best time travel novel in SF/Fantasy is…” to “The best time travel novel in Westerns is…”, or “The best time travel movie in SF/Fantasy is…”, or “The best romance novel in SF/Fantasy is…”.

* You can add a completely new question of your choice to the end of the list, as long as it is still in the form “The best [subgenre] [medium] in [genre] is…”.

* You must have at least one question in your set, or you’ve gone extinct, and you must be able to answer it yourself, or you’re not viable.

Then answer your possibly mutant set of questions. Please do include a link back to the blog you got them from, to simplify tracing the ancestry, and include these instructions.

Finally, pass it along to any number of your fellow bloggers. Remember, though, your success as a Darwinian replicator is going to be measured by the propagation of your variants, which is going to be a function of both the interest your well-honed questions generate and the number of successful attempts at reproducing them.

My great-grandparent is Metamagician and the Hellfire Club.

My grandparent is Flying Trilobite.

My parent is A Blog Around the Clock.

The best time travel novel in SF/Fantasy is:

Hyperion by Dan Simmons.

The best neo-noir SF film in scientific and cyberpunk dystopias is:

Bladerunner by Ridley Scott.

The best sexy song in rock is:

Rose rouge by St Germain

[edit] as I mixed genres, above is more jazzy-groovy.

The best sexy song in rock is:

Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode.

The best cult novel in ex-Yugoslav fiction is:

A Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kis.

I am tagging the following people,this time my Twitter friends, to do the same:

Curt Hopkins

Anatole Fuksas

Uldis Bojars

Paul Jones

From Wikimedia Foundation listserv officially comes happy news that Wikimedia Commons now has over two million files. Since March 2007,  Commons routinely have over 100,000 files uploaded every single month. It is becoming more and more common to have over 5,000 files in a single day, since Commons is still a very young project,  say administrators from Commons.

Now comes the exciting part. The 2 millionth file on Commons was an audio file. From the Commons database was extracted that the 2 millionth file on Wikimedia Commons comes from Serbian Wikimedian -Nikola Smolenski who uploaded this file on 03:34, 9 October 2007. Congratulations!

I’ve been tagged twice by Bora for different memes, and I admit I’ve been lazy blogger lately, as I’ve been overwhelmed (and still I am) with other tasks in digital and analogue world. In between of creating the wonderful SNS (social networking system), drawing and making scraps of drafts and frameworks of clusters and nodes with some of the specifications, now (better late than never) I’m writing on cool animal meme , though as being child grown in the city, I’ll try to recall some moments and facts.

An interesting animal I had

When I was a baby kid (just started to walk), we had German Shepperd dog. He was very old and by surprise of all in the family -he had never ever bitten me. I used to, as every curious baby, approach to play with him and everyone kept me away from this cute and tamed dog. I remember one afternoon, I brought some food, he was so good dog, used to eat food from my hand. My aunt, who took care of me, was so upset seeing this, but the dog was cool as I was, didn’t understand why she was so upset. Not long after that he died (not because of the food I gave to him), he was old dog, and he is still in my memory as tame animal despite of his general characteristics. He was my best friend then, and was always happy to be around him. We didn’t have any animal after him for long time, later I had fish(es), cats and other dogs.

An interesting animal I ate

I have really bad feeling about the thought to eat an animal. Beside all possible seafood I ate (from the rive, sea and the ocean, from squids to octopus) – I won’t name them here, maybe an interesting animal I ate is young deer meat and I didn’t know that as people tricked me and told me it was chicken fillet. Of course, the taste is different and when I told them so, they were laughing telling me what was the (wild) animal. I immediately stopped to eat as I always had association for Walt Disney’s cartoon with young Bambi.

An interesting animal in the Museum

In National Museum in Prague, I saw the oldest Mamut (Mammoth) in Europe. In the Zoo (if we can call it animal live museum) I saw unique mother and baby panda, Su Lin and her mom Bai Yun. It was in San Diego zoo.

An interesting thing I did with or to an animal

Ok: I stepped on the European Scorpio last summer. On purpose. It sneaked into the house, I panicked and I dared to approach and took photo. Later, my sister biologist told me it’s harmless and neighbours told me it’s harmless and that they had one too? Huh. So: I killed scorpio. I felt bad afterwards as I never did anything similar to the spider or any other animal. I guess I am paying now my (animal karma.

An interesting animal in its natural habitat

I adore birds in parks, at the ocean, sea, anywhere.  Seagulls, I love to enjoy and record the sound they are making, flock of seagulls make very interesting sound. When I used to live in United States, every morning in front of my door, and everywhere, I was surrounded by lot of squirrels. Several times deer bumped right into the highway while driving. I saw deer and foxes, in urban nature. It’s not that usual for this part of Europe. Recently, I found the cool fossil of animal at the beach of the Northern sea. I am still trying to figure out the possible name of this animal/fish eaten by the seagulls? Any possible answer is welcomed.

Now I am tagging others for cool animal meme: Don, Robyn , Yan and Peggy.

Just came back from Netherlands where I’ve spent great, useful quality of time talking, discussing with colleagues and professionals from different backgrounds, participating, exchanging information, sharing information. They all have in common new concepts and ideas of learning, using new media tools, as well as exploring institutional and cultural issues. Waag Society hosted two day conference on alternatives in education with four major groups of topics that lecturers, presenters, and participants have been discussing during intense programme – download full programme here with abstracts.

Since my 60 min.session was interactive and I asked from my participants to be active, prior to the session I created wiki page (shareslides here :: open knowledge and education at the new level of the web paradigm), as well as ‘starting topic questionnaire’ at wiki (guidelines through an hour). Wiki is open, everyone can participate in discussion, post some of the works, slides, or documents, thoughts, examples, unfinished thoughts on and from the session.

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