“I guar-on-tee!”

In addition to his cooking and famous television show, Wilson wrote a children’s book of Cajun fables (a “Cajun Mother Goose”) and recorded many albums of Cajun humor as well as music.

Purchased the Moderne mansion built by William G. Rankin in the 1930’s, preserved and restored it (see “Thoroughly Moderne: An Architectural Gem with a Spicy History,” Inside Northside, Jan 2009).

For further reference

“Pleeese bah mah ressi-peees!”

Study of ancient crypotgraphy — “decoding the pyramids.” Carl Munck’s code system. Site: Pyramid Matrix

Example of a pyramid “decoded”

In 2006, a farmer working in his field discovered what is the largest underground tomb known in Greece, from the Hellenistic age (ca. 300BC, around the death of Alexander the Great and near his birthplace) [BBC] [Fox]

In 2008, the tombs were included on the World Monuments Fund’s Watch List 2008 as one of the 10 most-endangered monuments in the world.

Coral Castle is now a classic Florida roadside attraction visited by tourists on Miami vacations. [main site] [wiki]

“The Incredible Mystery Of Coral Castle” by Christopher Dunn, illustrated.

Friendly roadside America article

Leedskalnin said that he “discovered the secret of the pyramids.” No one saw how this little man moved these giant coral blocks, but the science of bulding pyramids is not entirely hidden and unknown.

However, due to the impressivene, unusual nature of this feat, there were claims of secret energies found there and a new hidden math (the Coral Castle “code”).

See also “Secret Energy Haunts Coral Castle,” Wired 2003.
and a skeptical look which offers a much more rational explanation.

Synergetics

FAQ

Buckminster Fuller Institute (BFI)

Critical Path project

Good books to start with: Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (perhaps most famous, a relevant quick-reading paperback), Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity (good read, relevant paperback), Critical Path, Buckminster Fuller’s Universe: His Life and Work, And It Came to Pass - Not to Stay (poetry), Grunch of Giants (classic about transnational corporations, money, profits and national sovereignty), Synergetics (the “big red book,” ultimately his masterwork). Buckminster Fuller Speaks His Mind (rare multi-disk speaking engagements now on MP3 download), World of Buckminster Fuller (old VHS film features Indira Gandhi and others), The Clock is Stopping: The Human Scenario (classic talks from Smithsonian Folkways, previously rare and out of print, now on mp3 with instant download), Bucky Works : Buckminster Fuller’s Ideas for Today (Jay Baldwin’s late-90s update, a great first intro), Buckminster Fuller: The Lost Interviews (incredible DVD set), Guinea Pig B: The 56 Year Experiment (new!), Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe (illustrated art book from the Whitney Museum of Art)

Amy Edmonson’s A Fuller Explanation: The Synergetic Geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller

unfolded polyhedra

The Nature of Order

t-module project

Amory Lovins

update on rbf home in Carbondale

PRSCO robots

world tetrahedron

“Exploring Emergence”

“Progress and Its Sustainability”

The Ingber laboratory

“Out-Dated Scientific Perceptions of Reality”

Reality Sculptors Discussion Groups

New Civilization Network

Gallery of Interactive Geometry

Tobi

Science and Sanity Reading List

Geodesic Lifestyle

Sacred Geometry Discovery

“Transcending Duality through Tensional Integrity”

RBF gopher menu

Tetra Space Co-ordinates

synergeo mailing list

Union of International Associations (UIA)

Double Tetrahedron Fractal

cortical hexagons

“A New Family of Six Degree Of Freedom Positional Devices”

“The art of numbers”

Bill Lauritzen’s Earth360

“Flying will be as easy as driving a car”

geodesic clubhouse

virtualized reality

hypercar

Research in the Rubin Group

pattern learning commentaries

“Jitterbug Defined Polyhedra: The Shape and Dynamics of Space”

variable geometry transition rig

Syndex: A SYNERGETIC PERSPECTIVE ON NUMBER DYNAMICS IN THEORY (NUMERONOMY) & PRACTICE (SYNCHROGRAPHICS)

For further research

The gist of it: Ugly developments, bad buildings, historic teardowns, loss of commuities

“Fighting Sprawl and Restoring Community in America.”
An Address Presented at San Joaquin Valley Town Hall Fresno, California November 20, 1996 by Richard Moe, President, National Trust for Historic Preservation

Sierra Club’s 1998 report

People and Organizations

Kunstler (The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape

Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Jeff Speck authored Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream

Al Norman’s Sprawl busters

Scenic America — mostly about reudcing or removing billboards

Smart Growth

Center for Livable Communities

Property Rights Research

Regionalism

Groups and Organizations

Intentional Communities

Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR)

Sustainable Communities Network

Co-ops like Meadodance

Regional Demographics

Find your own “Best Place”

Claritas appears to have the best: “You Are Where You Live” (enter a ZIP code, get the demographics; results given in cartoons & captions describing the type of people who live there …)

Similar topics: geolocation

Paul Krugman’s essay, “Some Chaotic Thoughts on Regional Dynamics” [google]

Sprawl in Rural Areas

“Churches’ land fight up for vote; Sims seeks to limit rural-area sprawl,” Seattle Times (Feb 2001)

Anti-Globalization

Boudewijn Wegerif’s What Matters

Malthusianism and “Green”

Some critics of “sprawl” are actually critics of “growth,” as well as (in some cases) technology, industrialization, civilization, and even Mankind itself

How Many Americans can the Earth Support?

Zero Waste America

Car Free