Barb Dybwad

Exeter High School, Smith College, anti-academic student of life

Smith College, Attended - , Class of , Other

blogger

Engadget, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, The Witching, Doctor Paradox, Dykes Do Digital dot org, Tankini, The Smiffenpoofs

social software, gadgets, blogging, folksonomies, drumming, producing electronic music, activism, flickr, non-monogamy, self-employment, peace, travel, buddhism, love, communication, WabiSabi, imperfection, inefficiency, metadata, media convergence, authorship, revolution

harry potter, tolkien, italo calvino, marge piercy, lawrence lessig - the future of ideas, j.d. salinger, willa cather, robert heinlein, jeanette winterson, the chronicles of narnia, aldous huxley, douglas adams, margaret mead, alice walker, howard zinn, edward albee, sarah schulman, jean genet, anything that plays with reality and makes me think about things in new ways

cowboy bebop, woodstock the director's cut, waking life, ghost in the shell, spirited away, monterey pop festival, malcom x, the matrix, lord of the rings, fried green tomatoes (i am secretly a sap, shhhh)

the universe is made of tiny vibrating strings; therefore, everything is music. but if you want to get specific:, tool, led zeppelin, the beatles, rush, bjork, james brown, medeski martin & wood, the witching, thievery corporation, fleetwood mac, tortoise, jefferson airplane, dj spooky, squarepusher, autechre, metallica, a tribe called quest, banco de gaia, boards of canada, sleater-kinney, pamela means, ember swift, coldplay, crosby stills & nash... and everything else.

who has time to watch tv? but secretly, doctor who, queer as folk, absolutely fabulous, the simpsons

i play with music and computers. if i could have my Mac Titanium laptop
implanted in my body, i would seriously consider it.

memes i love to promote and explore: social gadgetry, collective intelligence, folksonomies, human-computer interfaces, the long tail, cosmology, self-employment, cooperation, collaboration, non-monogamy, self-actualization, cybernetics, open source knowledge, the cluetrain, copyleft, Eastern metaphysics, paradox, power laws, hypertext, ontology, taxonomy, creativity, futurism, nature, technology, grassroots media, learning, the web as medium... and that's before lunch... :)

people who give a shit. to live life without passion is not to live.

i don't want to have any 'serious relationships.' i want them all to be
hysterically funny.