Oleh posted an article on Jan 28th about Brigitta Winkler’s mention of the “real” steps in tango:
She introduced the idea that there are only 3 steps in Tango (and all 3 can be considered basic). These are: open, cross forward, and cross back.
I am a bit surprised. Not because the idea is so simple and so correct. (Although there are even deeper implications to this way of thinking/dancing than can be discussed here). Mostly because I have heard and read about this approach in Mauricio Castro’s Tango Discovery - or better in his book ‘Tango Doscovery - The Matrix’ who basically published a book talking about nothing else than all possible combinations of these three basic steps (+ no step). A combinatorial masterpiece, but not really a practical approach - nothing is taken away from you, it still is up to you to examine and explore the ideas with a partner. Mauricio is also really commercializing this stuff, it sounds just like he has grasped that in addition to being quite analytical he can also benefit from a good marketing backing him. Nevertheless good work.
Just wondering now: where did this all start? Who was the first “Tango scientist”?
The tango blog written by Oleh Kovalchuke always was a great read; I can understand his reasons for stopping to write - although I hope he will not shut up completely; as do I hope he will keep hosting the archives for quite some while.
Oleh, good luck and many happy tangos in the real world to you!
[note: 2007-07-08] Oleh has a new tango blog! http://www.tangospring.com/tangoBlog.htm
Published by dekay on March 30, 2005
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The Password generator bookmarklet is probably one of the most useful bookmarklets out there. It generates a unique password just by clicking it - all derived from the URL and a master password! Perfect!
Published by dekay on March 29, 2005
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Weblog Tools Collection has a WP plugin that lets you share blacklists among wordpress bloggers! Yahoo!
Too bad it doesn’t run when SpamKarma is installed…
[update Montag, 30. Mai 2005 17:34:36]
It does now - after an update to Wordpress 1.5.1.
If anyone cares, here is my PeerID: ada0ac347e123dfafe5319bda9cb5aec
I just wished there was a verbose mode to actually see what is happening. Maybe even a link/connection with RefKarma/SpamKarma would be neat.
Published by dekay on March 29, 2005
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With the plugin Cat2Tag tags are included in wordpress like they are in flickr or del.icio.us. However - the script doesnt work as well as it should with Safari… or maybe my Safari is completely broken… see previous post?!
Argl.
Oh, can someone integrate this with the technorati tagging system? (or is it because it uses wordpress’s categories which are automatically used by technorati?)
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