Free Your Mind!
The Matrix is, probably, the most Buddhist film ever made so far. Almost too good to be true... It deals with many essential topics connected with discovering the full potential of mind, speech and body — our true nature.
Rather than being an analysis of the story itself, this website discusses some Buddhist elements in The Matrix. You can have a look at some selected quotes from the film together with some quotes by Vajrayana Buddhist masters. The synopsis of each section has been filtered by my limited understanding from various teachings of Lama Ole Nydahl and other Vajrayana masters. Enjoy!
Blake at 4:39:00 PM
Man With Sword Kills 2 at Grocery
"A man wielding a samurai-style sword killed two people and wounded three others at an Irvine supermarket Sunday before his bloody rampage ended with a fatal volley of police gunfire.
The deadly attack occurred about 9:35 a.m. inside the Albertsons at Culver Drive and Irvine Boulevard, when Joseph Parker, a 30-year-old bagger known for erratic behavior, entered the market where he worked and began slashing employees and customers, witnesses said.
Wearing a green beret and a long, dark coat, the Santa Ana man pulled out a sword with a 3-foot blade and calmly attacked in silence, almost beheading one of his victims. As he roamed the store, employees armed with barbecue utensils, mayonnaise jars and trashcan lids tried to corner him.
"There were trails of blood everywhere. People were running. A lady was screaming," said Javier Ascencio, 38, of Irvine, who was returning a gallon of spoiled milk. "I was yelling for everyone to get out. Things just happened so fast."
Blake at 4:06:00 PM
"Mandarin speakers use more areas of their brains than people who speak English, scientists said on Monday, in a finding that provides new insight into how the brain processes language.
Unlike English speakers, who use one side of their brain to understand the language, scientists at the Wellcome Trust research charity in Britain discovered that both sides of the brain are used to interpret variations in sounds in Mandarin. "We were very surprised to discover that people who speak different sorts of languages use their brains to decode speech in different ways; it overturned some long-held theories," said Dr. Sophie Scott, a psychologist at the charity.
Using brain scans on volunteers, Scott discovered that different areas of the brain are used to interpret words and intonation. The left temporal lobe of the brain is active when English speakers hear the language but Mandarin speakers use the left and right lobe, which is normally used to process melody in music and speech.
Intonation is important in Mandarin because it gives different meanings to the same word. The word "ma" for example can mean mother, scold, horse or hemp, depending on the tone.
"We think Mandarin speakers interpret intonation and melody in the right temporal lobe to give the correct meaning to the spoken word," Scott said in a statement. "It seems that the structure of the language you learn as a child affects how the structure of your brain develops to decode speech. Native English speakers, for example, find it extraordinarily difficult to learn Mandarin."
Blake at 4:05:00 PM
NPR wit Guy RIAA
Blake at 4:54:00 PM
Maybe our elections arn't so bad after all: "When King Mswati III dissolved Swaziland's Parliament this month in anticipation of October elections, he sternly warned prospective candidates not to murder innocent people in order to harvest their body parts to make a "muti" to bring good fortune.
"During election times, we tend to lose our grandmothers, grandfathers and young children. They just disappear. But I want to warn you all that you should not resort to ritual murder," Mswati said."
Blake at 6:31:00 PM
CNN.com - U.K. pair to ride balloon into 'space' - Jun. 23, 2003 LONDON (Reuters) -- Britain's first ever mission into space unveiled its arsenal of technology on Monday, including a huge helium balloon and spacesuits to shield the pilots from cosmic rays.
Blake at 8:09:00 PM
Dungeons And Dreamers The Rise of Computer Game Culture From Geek to Chic
Blake at 8:09:00 PM
Journalist accused by WMD committee "(Andrew Gilligan) said that his source had told him that a claim that Iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes had been inserted to "sex up" the dossier at the behest of No 10's director of communications, Alastair Campbell.)
Blake at 8:08:00 PM
Aldous Huxley's inspired 1954 essay detailed the vivid, mind-expanding, multisensory insights of his mescaline adventures. By altering his brain chemistry with natural psychotropics, Huxley tapped into a rich and fluid world of shimmering, indescribable beauty and power. With his neurosensory input thus triggered, Huxley was able to enter that parallel universe described by every mystic and space captain in recorded history. Whether by hallucination or epiphany, Huxley sought to remove all controls, all filters, all cultural conditioning from his perceptions and to confront Nature or the World or Reality first-hand - in its unpasteurized, unedited, unretouched, infinite rawness.
Those bonds are much harder to break today, half a century later. We are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever known. Not only are our thoughts and attitudes continually being shaped and molded; our very awareness of the whole design seems like it is being subtly and inexorably erased. The doors of our perception are carefully and precisely regulated. Who cares, right?
It is an exhausting and endless task to keep explaining to people how most issues of conventional wisdom are scientifically implanted in the public consciousness by a thousand media clips per day. In an effort to save time, I would like to provide just a little background on the handling of information in this country. Once the basic principles are illustrated about how our current system of media control arose historically,the reader might be more apt to question any given story in today's news.
If everybody believes something, it's probably wrong. We call that Conventional Wisdom.
Blake at 8:07:00 PM
Inca may have used knot computer code to bind empire They ran the biggest empire of their age, with a vast network of roads, granaries, warehouses and a complex system of government. Yet the Inca, founded in about AD1200 by Manco Capac, were unique for such a significant civilisation: they had no written language. This has been the conventional view of the Inca, whose dominions at their height covered almost all of the Andean region, from Colombia to Chile, until they were defeated in the Spanish conquest of 1532.
But a leading scholar of South American antiquity believes the Inca did have a form of non-verbal communication written in an encoded language similar to the binary code of today's computers. Gary Urton, professor of anthropology at Harvard University, has re-analysed the complicated knotted strings of the Inca - decorative objects called khipu - and found they contain a seven-bit binary code capable of conveying more than 1,500 separate units of information.
Blake at 8:06:00 PM
modular robotics Optimus Prime is close at hand.
Blake at 8:05:00 PM
Kim Jong-il says "Beware my henchmen!"
Blake at 7:42:00 PM
History and culture of computing | Metafilter information on information
Blake at 11:23:00 AM
Japander:n.,& v.t. 1. a western star who uses his or her fame to make large sums of money in a short time by advertising products in Japan that they would probably never use. ~er (see synecure, prostitute) 2. to make an ass of oneself in Japanese media.
Blake at 11:21:00 AM
Scientific American: How to Build a Time Machine - Maybe.
Blake at 11:09:00 AM
Smart Mobs RULE. "NEW YORK -- There were no peasants waving torches or pitchforks in this crowd, no procession up a winding, eerie mountain road to flush out the monster who'd been terrorizing their town.
The mob that gathered in Manhattan on Tuesday night was looking for something they referred to (without explanation) as a "Love Rug." Or at least that's what the couple of hundred people who gathered in Macy's department store told a bemused salesman, who may or may not have believed he was dealing with a commune of carpet-craving eccentrics.
The crowd of people was participating in the Mob Project, an e-mail-driven experiment in organizing groups of people who suddenly materialize in public places, interact with others according to a loose script and then dissipate just as suddenly as they appeared. "
Blake at 3:13:00 PM
I have decided to call this a "Techno-Womb."
Blake at 11:45:00 AM
Who is "The Man"? "The most important of Whitey's Supreme Council is the man I call "The Man". He is responsible for years of oppression and for leading the movement to keep me and my people down. He has, according to the intelligence I have received and personally gathered, been in control of racist product development for the last 2 decades, poisoning the minds of our nations' youths. He has managed to this point to keep his identity a secret, and with his history of oppressive tyranny, it is no surprise that he would rather remain in the background and silently watch his machine of hate and oppression topple the supposedly "free" and "equal" nation in which we live. I present to you, The Man."
Blake at 11:43:00 AM
Astrofolk love Tank Girl! "What the astronauts didn't expect was the effect the movie would have on them after they had been away from television and movie theaters for three months.
"There were these scenes of cruelty in this movie, and we would be watching it, and it would just almost start me shaking," said Bowersox, a shuttle commander and fighter pilot.
"You really feel the physiological effect on your body," he said. "It was really funny."
Blake at 10:47:00 AM
Hulk closes Wall Street. Really. "The Hulk character, from the new movie by the same name, is joined by New York Stock Exchange (news - web sites) Chairman Richard Grasso (2NDL-Front row) for the ringing of the closing bell at the NYSE, June 20, 2003. 'Hulk,' which debuted on Friday, is about the comic book character whose altered DNA has made him 15-feet (4.5-meters) tall, green, muscle bound and extremely angry."
Blake at 10:27:00 AM
Gamers.com : Electronic Gaming Monthly "In the July issue of Electronics Gaming Monthly, we interviewed Henry Hill--you know, the guy the movie Goodfellas was based on? He worked for the mob, participated in the $6mil Lufthansa heist in '78 (the biggest ever at the time), then turned state's evidence and helped put away the Lucchese crime family. We thought the wiseguy who lived Grand Theft Auto back in the 60s and 70s should play it, so we called for a sit-down and brought in GTA: Vice City, Hitman 2, The Getaway, and, for the hell of it, Animal Crossing. Along for the meeting: Julian, Hill's 14-year-old son and videogame consigliere."
What I've learned from this is that Henry Hill is a tough-ass, the Getaway is crappy, and Animal Crossing is quite possably able to shoot and target brain-sucking rays.
Blake at 10:20:00 AM
Orian Hatch to World :"I'm an Idiot." See, their plan is to put these chips in everyone's computers, that are made with bits of rocks from Stonehenge, and when they play pirated music, a laser beam shoots out at the music pirate, and makes bugs come out of their mouth. It will be awesome.
And then a ninja comes and totally cuts the pirate's head off.
The idea is so cool it makes me want to headbutt my dog so hard that we both scream.
Blake at 10:12:00 AM
Amazon.com -zShops: Homeland Security Choker Set (For US Customers)
Blake at 2:57:00 AM
Savant for a Day "My forehead was connected, by a series of electrodes, to a machine that looked something like an old-fashioned beauty-salon hair dryer and was sunnily described to me as a ''Danish-made transcranial magnetic stimulator.''
Getting smarter without the smart drugs? Awsome.
Blake at 2:46:00 AM
Robot Improv Exactly what it says. I love machine humor.
Blake at 2:46:00 AM
50 Years after the Execution of the Rosenbergs: Treason & Patriotism Written by their son, who was 6 at the time they were exicuted for being atomic trators.
Blake at 2:45:00 AM
I Love Comics, I Hate Comics
Blake at 2:41:00 AM
Wired News: E-Mail Mob Takes Manhattan
Blake at 7:21:00 PM
RedNova News: "Rosetta Stone" Found to Decode the Mystery of Gamma Ray Bursts Just in time for the new Hulk movie.
Blake at 7:16:00 PM
Wired 11.07: We're All Gonna Die! My fave is the "experment gone wrong" one.
Blake at 7:12:00 PM
COAST TO COAST AM WITH GEORGE NOORY
Blake at 6:51:00 PM
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Mystery at the monastery ends as CCTV reveals chamber of secrets' daring thief
Blake at 6:51:00 PM
They made it.
They Fucking Really Made it.
Hebrew Hammer, The (2003) Plot Outline: A Jewish superhero saves Hannukah from an evil Santa Claus imposter.
I saw this on the website where you can view every script pitch hollywood deals with, and laughed at this for half an hour. And now it's real. Nothing can be trusted anymore.
Blake at 5:48:00 PM
HUMANBEATBOX.COM - Learn to Beatbox
Blake at 6:16:00 PM
Bullfighter — Stripping The Bull Out Of Business || A consulting jargon fighter from Deloitte Consulting
Blake at 6:16:00 PM
365 Days Project
Blake at 6:16:00 PM
Bruce Willis's three kids are named Tallulah, Scout, and Rumer.
Blake at 5:48:00 PM
Plot for The Whole Ten Yards(2003), taken directly from IMDB: " Jimmy the Tulip's (Willis) quiet new life is shaken up by his old pal Oz (Perry), whose wife (Henstridge) has been kidnapped by a Hungarian mob. The Tulip and his wife Jill (Peet) spring into action."
Blake at 5:45:00 PM
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WARREN ELLIS
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I had the opportunity last night to
watch a "screener" copy of the pilot
episode of the new Steven Bochco
sf policier series, NYPD 2069.
It's hard to be prolific in TV as a
writer-producer, because the
undertaking is so huge. The CV of
a TV creator is always going to be
spotty. And some projects have
their own awful momentum that
defeat the one upside of committee-
creativity in Hollywood, which is
that you have many minds
assessing the viability of a concept.
COPROCK, one of the most wrong-
headed concepts in mainstream
American television of the last twenty
years, must've seemed like an
asteroid flying towards Earth. So
when you get a new Steven Bochco
show, there's a weird mix in your
anticipation. Is it HILL STREET
BLUES or is it COPROCK?
When you first saw HILL STREET
BLUES... the crump-crump of the
crappy old stationhouse garage
doors folding up and the police
cars moving out, the slow downbeat
piano picking out the refrain as the
cop car moves through a blasted
urban cityscape, the hopeful misery
of early-70s US film brought to
early-80s US tv... you knew you were
getting something with a little meat.
The grime and grain of it, the
jostled camerawork, the cacophony
of overlapping dialogue, the sudden
wild bursts of black humour and
moments of absolute chill.
And NYPD BLUE; the tribal clatter
of drums that opens it up. That
first series had meat. The christ-like
John Kelly on his confused downward
spiral, and the depraved Andy
Sipowicz trying to claw his way back
up into the light.
NYPD 2069 opens up with a toppy
1983 synth that'd make Harold
Faltermayer blush, full of whizzy
sci-fi noises and a breathing sample
that was old before you'd heard
of "electronica". It's horrible. The
display lettering is all plastic white
and slanted, probably because
someone decided it looked sci-fi.
The credit-sequence visuals are
just a pan around the protagonist
in the chamber where he's reclaimed
from cryogenic freeze, sleeping.
Pure adrenaline, obviously.
In 2003, NYPD detective Alex Franco
is run over at the behest of a rich
murder suspect. His wife is told
that he can't be brought out of his
coma, but that there is a secret
option; an experimental program
offered to police and fire services
where he can be frozen until such
time as his injuries can be repaired.
They estimate ten years.
Sixty-six years later...
That was the first time I smiled.
We're about twenty minutes in.
Alex is given a spook handler to
explain the new world to him. His
wife's dead, his son is 77 and senile.
The guy who had him killed is 99,
super-rich and looks 50 thanks to
gene therapy. Yes, his arch-enemy
is still alive. His grandson is a
detective in the NYPD. Spook guy
says, we're here to reintegrate
you into the world, do everything
we can etc etc. Alex says he wants
to be a cop again, and he wants to
work with his grandson. For this,
spook has to create him a whole
new identity, For No-one Must Know
etc etc. And he is Warned, the job
has changed, it's been a hard sixty
years for America but it's a Brave
New World now.
Alex, now Alex Bolander, is assigned
to work with his grandson, whom of
course he can't tell anything to.
This had me groaning, but to their
credit they turned this around.
Alex has been deeply instructed in
How Things Are Done Now, but of
course he's still all Buck Rogers,
Doing Things The Way They Ought
To Be Done, Like In The Good Old
Days. The detective squad breaks
down to the No-Nonsense Black
Boss, The Asshole, The Pretty
Woman and The Other One. They
all have to wear glasses on the
street that project head-up displays
on the inside. There's a degree of
good futurism in this, but I think it
was an aesthetic miscalculation.
Cops in spectacles don't project
authority. Their vehicles have a
cute little siren that goes zow-zow,
which kind of defeats the object of
sirens, which are supposed to
SCREAM to command your attention.
The show is full of aesthetic misfires
like these.
I'm reminded of something Harlan
Ellison once wrote. It was a bit
precious, and I'm paraphrasing
heavily, but it goes a bit like this:
people who haven't spent any time
with sf think it's easy. With no study
of how the genre works, and with
no deep reading of it, a lot of people
come to sf for the first time, stick
together all the obvious ideas that
everyone had fifty years ago, and
expect to be lauded to the skies
for Having Done Sci-Fi Right.
That's what this reeks of.
The retrieval of a kidnapping victim,
a combination of 2003 police skills
and 2069 data-rich environment,
works pretty well. The squad give
chase to the perp, who has a
microwave gun. They're wearing
protective suits and helmets. Alex'
grandson falls over, gets mud on
his visor. Naturally enough, since
it's the only thing protecting his
head from incinerator, he lifts
the visor. And gets his head
incinerated.
Dumb way to do it, but, yes, nice
reversal.
There follows a JUDGE DREDD-like
sequence where a judge and two
attorneys are raised on videophone
to pronounce summary sentence
of death on the perp, and so Alex
learns how different the job is today.
Alex goes to deliver the news to
the grandson's family and, Christ,
this had me squirming. Meet the
family requiring Alex to make it
good and wholesome and nuclear.
The son, going through his dad's
possessions, even finds a photo of
Alex from 2003, looks at Alex and
makes the connection.
You can hear someone in the back
saying, "yes, but how can we say
it *emotionally*?"
After an awful scene where Alex
stalks and assaults the Arch-Enemy,
he goes into a church, listens to a
bunch of old people singing old
gospel, and weeps.
Is it COPROCK? No. You can just
about sit through this. Is it any
good? Well, I didn't think so. Your
mileage may well vary. It's all down
to personal tastes, and every piece
of art finds a different audience.
My personal feeling is that this is
a huge misfire; sets that MUTANT X
would sneer at, a colourless
protagonist, an empty depiction of
the future, no standout performances.
If it makes a second season, I'll be
surprised.
It airs in September in the US, I
think.
-- W
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Sent from Warren's handheld
Blake at 5:08:00 PM
The Atlantic | July/August 2003 | The Texas Clemency Memos | Berlow
Blake at 4:54:00 PM
Humankind almost died. This raises a lot of intresting points.
Blake at 4:42:00 PM
A Nevada brothel is offering free sex to U.S. troops who fought in Afghanistan or Iraqalon.com Sex | From the halls of Montezuma to the whores who give for free Quote from the manager: "Is it a promotion? Absolutely. I'm the Colonel Sanders of pussy," he said. "But is it the right thing to do? You're fucking right it is."
Blake at 4:35:00 PM
Komar and Melamid and Dave Soldier are crazy science people who have decided to find the best and worst songs in existance.
Blake at 4:03:00 PM
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Psymbiote "The focus of this ongoing interdisciplinary collaboration is the merger of technology with the human body, approaching the issue both in practice and in concept. We are creating an interactive performance suit and developing functional cybernetic units that will be worn with it. Ultimately we seek to fully transform an individual into a new and unexpected hybrid organism with fully integrated control systems. Our research has several objectives: experimenting with simple solutions for animating the suit with movement, sound, and light devices; exploring possibilities for manual, automatic, and remote activation of these devices; and creating a beautiful, organic, yet entirely unfamiliar human/machine chimera. As its development progresses, the Psymbiote will appear in public spaces around the community in an attempt to engender dialogue regarding the future of human technological enhancements. The Psymbiote is an attempt to bring the issues raised by the ongoing redefinition of the human body into a public forum, highlighting some of the contemporary critical discourse surrounding cybernetics and other human technological extensions. "
Blake at 8:37:00 PM
Jesus Presley and Elvis Christ
"Jesus Lives. Elvis Saves"
Buddy Flick
Elvis Christ - modern day reincarnation of Christ born in Nashville - witness to the murder -
Jesus Presley - born in Spanish harlem - son of illegitimate daughter of the Real Elvis or the illegitimate son of the Real Elvis, plain out - edgy cop, but good - doesn't play by the rules - case is personal - THIS close to being kicked off the case - half-way through the movie, gets kicked off case, but continues with the help of Elvis Christ
Weird Bible Symbolism - drug smugglers using fish to smuggle fish - plenty of opportunity to multiply the fish
Chance meeting of the two early, but make no big deal of it, later on hooks up
Jesus Presley has to get past Elvis Christ's bumpkin ways and religious nonsense talk
If Elvis Christ kills someone, it'll bring about Apocalypse -> obscurely phrased prophecy that Jesus learns
Opening Credits - Flipping through the pages of a Weekly World News
Climax - Jesus Presley faces down with his Evil Brother - about to shoot him, but gets shot in leg - Elvis Christ is about to shoot the Evil Brother, skies turn red, near to Apocalypse, but Jesus Presley tells him to stop, finally understanding the odd prophecy- Evil Brother uses opportunity to blow up factory - Evil Brother Escapes? Dies but body not found?
Last Scene - Jesus is in the hospital - Elvis Christ offers to heal Jesus Presley, but Jesus turns it down, not wanting to rely too much on the miracles?
Notes: (1) Subtley feature The Weekly World News - people in background are reading it - an ad for Batboy the Musical on a wall - Week;ly World News is the paper that is dramatically blown down the street
(2) Include a lot of "Easter" eggs for the clever, observant viewing audience
-Copywrite Ian Soppeland, Blake Reitz, and, with special thanks to Evan
-E-mail copy to The W's for the inspiration - J.P.
Blake at 7:02:00 PM
Hellen Keller: A Lie
Blake at 6:10:00 PM
"Some brilliant stuff in today's White House press briefing:
Q And also in the last, 2000 and coming up, the President will accept federal funds in the general election.
MR. FLEISCHER: Correct.
Q Is there any dash of hypocrisy in that he doesn't contribute to that fund when he files his tax returns?
MR. FLEISCHER: Well, interestingly, we talked before about taxpayer-financed elections, and while for the congressional races, Senate races and House races, and for overwhelming majority of the funds that go to presidential races is voluntary, there is that check on the tax reforms. And the best I remember this from IRS data is something like only 12 percent, or down to 8 percent of the American people check that box. So I think the President is in pretty good company with a number of American people who do not check that box.
Q Why would he take the money, then?
MR. FLEISCHER: As you know, he's not taking the money for the primary campaign; he will take it for the general.
In other words: why, yes, it's complete hypocrisy, but millions of people (who aren't being hypocritical, since they're not taking the money) don't check the box, so that makes it OK.
Thanks to Reed for the tip. There's also this:
MR. FLEISCHER: Well again, I think the amount of money that candidates raise in our democracy is a reflection of the amount of support they have around the country. So the President is proud to have the support of the American people, and the American people will ultimately be the ones who decide how much funding goes to any Democrat or any Republican.
Q How can that really be reflective of his support, though, considering he's getting money from people who can afford to go to dinner for $2,000? I mean, most Americans cannot afford that. So how can that really be reflective of his support from middle America?
MR. FLEISCHER: The rules are equal. The rules are the same for both parties, for the Democrats and the Republicans. Both parties compete knowing that. They, of course, raise money from all groups of Americans, including many low-dollar donors. And, again, the American people decide how much support to give either candidate in either party.
Ah. So the Democrats are free to equally whore themselves to the wealthy, and that's democracy. Nice to have it spelled out so clearly for once.
Hmm. I'm surprised Ari's not going to work for the DLC."
Blake at 6:08:00 PM
You Must Choose This is what I think about everyday, at least once an hour.
Blake at 6:02:00 PM
Drug Turns Crime Victims Into Zombies "BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - The last thing Andrea Fernandez recalls before being drugged is holding her newborn baby on a Bogota city bus.
Police found her three days later, muttering to herself and wandering topless along the median strip of a busy highway. Her face was badly beaten and her son was gone.
Fernandez is just one of hundreds of victims every month who, according to Colombian hospitals, are temporarily turned into zombies by a home-grown drug called scopolamine which has been embraced by thieves and rapists."
Wow, you know what I would hate? Being a freaking zombie. On the flipside, you know what I'd love some access too? Drugs to make people into zombies. Uh, no reason.
Blake at 5:53:00 PM
Raptor III Minivan attack vech. heh.
Blake at 5:51:00 PM
Metallica does something actualy not stupid to deter pirates. I can stand behind flooding Kazza with misslabled John Denver songs anyday.
Blake at 5:15:00 PM
Stasticis Always Lie The Philadelphia Inquirer Online - "A third of the American public believes U.S. forces have found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, according to a recent poll. Twenty-two percent said Iraq actually used chemical or biological weapons.
But such weapons have not been found in Iraq and were not used.
Blake at 5:14:00 PM
Where's a good place for a halfway house? Apperntly between the daycare for Mentaly Retarded adults and the Teen Girl Halfway house.
Blake at 4:51:00 PM
Exploding CDs! spinspinspinspinspinspinspinspinspinspinspinspinspinspinspinspinspinspinspinspinspinspinspinspinspinspinspinspinspINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPINSPINBOOM
Blake at 4:49:00 PM
NASA wants to build Super-Space Shapeshifting Shuttles.
Blake at 4:48:00 PM
Why does George W. Bush hate America?
Blake at 4:41:00 PM
A VIRTUAL PATH TO SUICIDE / Depressed student killed herself with help from online discussion group Why can't I have this much power and influcince over people? Why!?
Blake at 4:35:00 PM
The cola wars get personal "NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The big difference between drinking a Coke or a Pepsi could be a pink slip, as one Coke employee discovered Thursday.
The Teamsters union alleges a Coke (KO: Research, Estimates) delivery truck driver was fired for drinking a Pepsi (PEP: Research, Estimates) on the job in violation of Coke's policies intended to prevent slander against the company and its products"
Blake at 5:09:00 PM
CNN.com - Hatfields and McCoys sign truce - Jun. 14, 2003 Feel a bit like someone killed a little part of history.
Blake at 5:09:00 PM
A burglar who says he cannot enjoy sex after he was shot and injured by Tony Martin has won the right to sue the jailed farmer for damages. In other news, the guy who hit-and-run me and had no licence or insurance made 2000 bucks out of it.
Blake at 5:08:00 PM
Once-Extinct turtle breathes through ass.
Blake at 5:08:00 PM
Roswell Declassified: June 2003 Cover Story
Blake at 5:07:00 PM
carnie tricks
Blake at 4:58:00 PM
Bézenville Survivel chic
Blake at 3:48:00 PM
World's Largest Roadside Attractions Because comicly large thing are FUNNY!
Blake at 3:47:00 PM
Space Station Science Picture of the Day: Aurora Australis
Blake at 3:47:00 PM
evil clown generator
Blake at 3:46:00 PM
Did You Hear the One About the Suicide Bomber?
Blake at 3:38:00 PM
Guardian Unlimited | Fast forward into trouble "Four years ago, Bhutan, the fabled Himalayan Shangri-la, became the last nation on earth to introduce television. Suddenly a culture, barely changed in centuries, was bombarded by 46 cable channels. And all too soon came Bhutan's first crime wave - murder, fraud, drug offences. Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy report from a country crash-landing in the 21st century. "
Blake at 11:10:00 AM
Extreme Machines: World's Smallest Robot
Blake at 11:10:00 AM
Baboon eats baby in front of mom
Blake at 11:09:00 AM
M.C. Escher "Why are M.C. Escher’s images so hugely popular? Is the real attraction in his visual paradoxes, or in the poetry of his mosaics? How did Escher go about creating his works? What were the sources of his inspiration? What kind of person was he?"
Blake at 10:57:00 AM
Tales of the Plush Cthulhu Yeah.
Blake at 10:57:00 AM
SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea (news - web sites) claimed Friday that it has developed a wearable device that uses a "jewel" to convert the sun's rays into a photo-electromagnetic field to purify blood and heal a range of serious diseases. Strokes white cat, points laser at Bond.
Blake at 7:33:00 PM
His Worship needs a GBA SP:
Blake at 10:55:00 PM
The Gnostic Matrix,
Blake at 10:50:00 PM
Valedictorian who sued two other "co-valedictorians" for stealking her thunder now apologizes for plagrising stuff. Ha. Ha Ha. HAHAHAHAHAH!
Blake at 10:48:00 PM
Too Too Divine
Movies' 'Magic Negro' Saves the Day, but at The Cost of His Soul a>
It's because black people are magical!
Blake at 10:44:00 PM
When Two Is the Loneliest Number: Government May Replenish Rare $2 Bills - from Tampa Bay Online Wonder if they'll fit in some masonic imagry this time?
Blake at 10:36:00 PM
The Scotsman - International - Homer vies with presidents to be greatest American and why not? "Others include the singer Bob Dylan, Presidents Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D Roosevelt, and, bizarrely, Mr T, from the television series, The A-Team."
Blake at 10:31:00 PM
Marine still loves wife despite plot to have another marine lover blow the shit out of him with a grenade. Wow. Idiot.
Blake at 10:30:00 PM
Director Ang Lee admits something has bothered him from the beginning of "The Hulk" project: Normal man Bruce Banner grows to be a 15-foot giant and splits out of his shirt, shoes and socks, yet his pants remain on. "It's a question I always had myself: 'How come his pants always stay on?'" Lee tells Zap2it.com. "I thought he should be naked."
I'm sure if he were a big green nude hulk, the ticket sales would be through the roof. As would be the puns.
Blake at 10:27:00 PM
Michael Bolton to serve 25 years in "federal pound me in the ass" state prison for forcibe sodomy.
Blake at 10:25:00 PM
USATODAY.com - Classic case of downsizing "These films need to be treated like classic films, not kids' fodder," says Beck, editor of cartoonresearch.com and author of the upcoming book Outlaw Animation. "Would they cut a frame from The Wizard of Oz or Citizen Kane? No."
Blake at 10:22:00 PM
RedNova News: A Moon Illusion Onboard the ISS NASA -- Astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) have seen some odd-looking moons before: red moons, squashed moons, vanishing moons. They've learned to expect the unusual.
Blake at 10:15:00 PM
BEIJING - China has launched a new crackdown. The targets: accountants, Russian linguists and admirers of a racy Ming dynasty novel.
Blake at 10:14:00 PM
Singer of A-Ha has new line of bread. I'll avoid the obvious Bake on Me joke, and just mention that he's got great vocal range.
Blake at 10:13:00 PM
Morbid Outlook A goth-zine. Supriseingly high quality.
Blake at 9:53:00 PM
Guardian Unlimited Film | Features | Death in the snow "A body is found in the frozen North Dakota woods. The cops say the dead Japanese woman was looking for the $1m she saw buried in the film Fargo. But the story didn't end there."
Blake at 9:52:00 PM
The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism Red backround and Black text drive Blake mad. Future Mad.
Blake at 9:24:00 PM
Long Bets A bunch of rich fellows get together and predict future events, then bet on them. Jolly good fun.
Blake at 7:03:00 PM
pixelcreation. intresting. arty. keen.
Blake at 7:03:00 PM
Rotten Library All sorts of intresting info here. Very intresting.
Blake at 7:03:00 PM
Arthur Ganson has some Madly Cool Inventions.
Blake at 6:59:00 PM
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Blake at 5:29:00 PM
Right now, I'm looking at The Official String Theory Web Site, How to Make an H-Bomb, and the IKNCC Strain Database for bio-deadly stuff. And toying with The 4-D rubik's cube. This will all lead to something great, I'm sure of it.
Blake at 5:23:00 PM
As a by-product of this public service, and because he has been in the business all his life, the 78-year-old "braziologist," as he calls himself, has developed a certain gift.
He can tell you a woman's bra size from 10 feet away.
Blake at 5:04:00 PM
Run Jerry Run! I hope he either dosn't run, or wins. Nothing in between.
Blake at 7:18:00 PM
Wired News: Designer Drug Snuffs Cocaine High Well, so much for the 80's craze.
Blake at 7:15:00 PM
JFK's Address at American University, 6/10/63
Blake at 6:40:00 PM
"V" Day Coming Again? Regarding the orginial "V" movies, all 6 hours of them. I watched them when I was in freshman year, maybe end of middle school. All of them, one night my parents were gone. Really good stuff. Lizard Nazis abundent.
Blake at 6:39:00 PM
::A.Chaotic.ParadoX.01::My.Chaotic.Photography:: pretty. crazy. keen.
Blake at 6:18:00 PM
Historical Archive: Posters and Designs
Blake at 6:17:00 PM
Tricked-out Rigs from Japan.
Blake at 6:16:00 PM
the eighties tarot
Blake at 6:07:00 PM
The DaVinci Code
Blake at 5:42:00 PM
Ghana: Rawlings 'Discloses' Serial Killers, Lambasts Kufuor Ex-President Jerry John Rawlings last Tuesday accused fifteen current Cabinet ministers, whom he failed to name, of being perpetrators of the serial killing of the thirty-four women, most of whom were murdered in the run up to the 2000 elections.
Blake at 10:07:00 PM
This has been the scandal to end all scandals in France - a potent brew of sex and politics served daily by the country's media. "The French public has been treated to almost daily updates from Toulouse, where the allegations are that senior city officials not only covered up for a serial killer, Patrice Alegre, who says he organised sado-masochistic orgies for them, but that they even ordered some of his killings to protect themselves from blackmail. "
Blake at 5:08:00 PM
Brian Hitch is Strong.
Blake at 2:53:00 PM
Shakespeare on the Run in Central Park - 2003 - NYC - New York
Blake at 12:29:00 PM
RIAA/MPAA makes Edison's mistakes Namely, pissing off Tesla and stealing patents. And cutting people up into bits and eating them.
Blake at 12:28:00 PM
Cohaagen DVD Freezepop is number 2 on the list. Manuplate is my new fav song by them. And they still taste good.
Blake at 10:55:00 PM
The Promise of Democracy A timeline of iraq freedom quotes. Some are funny. Some are deep. Some are sad.
"The new ruler of Iraq is going to be an Iraqi. I don't rule anything." -Gen. Jay Garner
Blake at 10:30:00 PM
Read it and weep "Next week, the BBC reveals the results of a poll to find the nation's top 100 novels. But one man's masterpiece can be another's claptrap. Here, leading figures choose their literary bugbears, with an introduction by John Walsh"
Blake at 6:29:00 PM
The FOLKWAYS Archive Contribution Form
Blake at 6:28:00 PM
American Mavericks: Harry Partch's Instruments "By 1969, the year he recorded "Delusion of the Fury," Harry Partch had designed 27 new instruments, all to be played on stage at the same time in a spatial ritual theater. These instruments were made to be beautiful in sound, vision, and "magical purpose." They were tuned according to the natural overtone series, "Just Intonation" Some, like the Chromelodeon, had as many as 43 tones in a single "octave." He made particular instruments for specific needs in his compositions, not the other way around. But, more than this, he designed the instruments to be "corporeal." To Partch, corporeal meant to involve the whole body, the whole person in the art."
And now you too can play them!
Blake at 6:22:00 PM
online exhibits from the Museum of the History of Science, with such topics as "Image fo Tycho Brahe," "The Geomerty of War," and "The Oxford Virtual Science Walk."
Blake at 6:21:00 PM
Mobs move into 'Sims Online' power vacuum I love the fact that people have done this. It really says something great about society. "In a vacume, there will be orgnized crime."
Blake at 6:14:00 PM
Shredder 1.0
Blake at 6:05:00 PM
The Incredibles Can't wait.
Blake at 4:39:00 PM
Yahoo! News - Man Catches Fish With Computer in Belly I live for headlines like that. On a related note, Fish Porn. Actualy quite similiar to panda porn.
Blake at 4:39:00 PM
Eighties Ending A great mini-movie that is exactly what the title says. A good thing to watch right after Hot Wet American Summer.
Blake at 4:38:00 PM
I had no idea that Blue Oyster Cult did a song about Godzilla. None whatsoever.
Blake at 5:01:00 PM
Yeah, I file this as cool, nifty, and awsome.
Linked from Here.
Blake at 4:57:00 PM
museum of techno | home page The museum of techno exists to preserve, research and celebrate our shared techno heritage. The museum was founded in 1837, around founder Sir James Soame's unique collection of badboy kickdrums. It moved from its original location in Manchester to premises in London in 1863, opening its doors to the general public for the first time.
Some artefacts from Soame's original collection are still on display, but the museum has seen great change since its inception. Indeed, it is very much a living institution, with an active research programme, well-established links to education, and the collection growing each year.
Blake at 4:47:00 PM
Welcome to the Mr. McFeely Homepage Download their redition of "Death of Optimus Prime" hehehehe. Makes me giddy.
Blake at 4:45:00 PM
Yahoo! News - 'Sims' Creator Inks TV Deal with Fox
"It could be a sitcom or something completely different," said Mike Darnell, Fox executive VP alternative programming and specials. "This deal's not about taking a game and turning it into a TV show; it's about creating new entertainment franchises."
Wright has been toying with traditional linear entertainment during the past year, creating several five-minute episodes of "M.Y. Robot" that were written by Lew Morton of "The Simpsons (news - Y! TV)" and "Futurama." The original show concept blended puppetry with animation and was set in feudal Japan but dealt with modern-day suburban situations.
Blake at 4:21:00 PM
When it comes to the perfect doughnut, Canada is the unquestioned world leader.
Blake at 4:21:00 PM
ABCNEWS.com : King Blames Trousers for World's Ills Well, pants suits do look pretty evil.
Blake at 4:21:00 PM
**Einstein wrote this riddle this century. He said 98% of the world could not solve it. It's not hard, you just need to pay attention and be patient.**
Blake at 4:05:00 PM
"Spiderman is science fiction and will remain in comics," Geim told New Scientist. "But hopefully 'gecko-man' will become less science fiction and more a reality in the near future." "Geckos can climb even the most slippery surface with ease and hang from glass using a single toe. The secret behind this extraordinary climbing skill lies with millions of tiny keratin hairs - called setae - on the surface of each foot. An intermolecular phenomenon known as van der Waals force is exerted by each of these hairs. Although the force is individually miniscule, the millions of hairs collectively produce a powerful adhesive effect." Soon we will have this technology for ourselves.
Blake at 9:36:00 PM
Bill O'Reilly is completely insane
What this guy writes and says does not matter to me, other than, Mike, he insulted me in a forum where I was at a decided disadvantage*, you know, he went over his time limit. It was very, very sneaky, and you know, as I said at the top of the broadcast, somebody calls you a liar to your face, you don't just laugh that off. That's an insult. In the old west, that woulda got you shot. See in the old west, and I woulda loved to have been in the old west, Al and I woulda just had a little, uh, a little shootout. You know? We woulda went out, on Wilshire Avenue, and uh, six shooters, now he's a much smaller target than I am, about four foot eleven, but he's wider, and it woulda been you know, Clint Eastwood time. I woulda had the cheroot, the serape, woulda given my squint, and I woulda put a bullet right between his head. Woulda been wrong, woulda been wrong, but it was the old west, and I would not have known any better, so I wouldn't have been held accountable because I would not have known any--now I do, now in 2003 that would have been wrong.
*In other words, a forum in which O'Reilly could not shout "cut his mic! cut his mic!"
Blake at 8:27:00 PM
Photos of the Great War
Blake at 3:44:00 PM
The Internet is Dying.
Blake at 3:42:00 PM
'US 'is an empire in denial'
Blake at 3:40:00 PM
The Talon Riot Control Vehicle I never get what I want for x-mas.
Blake at 3:40:00 PM
Unlike father, unlike son I hold no love for Geroge Bush, Major or minor, but Senior was a good Politician. A very good one, infact. Hand Puppet, on the other hand....
Blake at 2:13:00 AM
massive update enclosed. mutants, aliens, and toads beware.
Blake at 7:14:00 PM
RedNova News: Future Soldier to Have Massive Network And to look like a vampire stormtrooper.
Blake at 7:10:00 PM
Theme park investigates mysteries of the world "Von Däniken’s books, including “Chariots of the Gods”, argue that knowledge gained through contact with aliens enabled the ancient Egyptians, for example, to construct their giant pyramids.
However, the author told swissinfo: “This is not a UFO park.”
The aim of the park, according to the 68-year-old author, is to expose people to some of the world’s great mysteries - people “who have neither the time nor the money to travel to the original sites themselves”.
Blake at 6:46:00 PM
SILENCE! Silence of the Lambs: The Musical - by Jon & Al Kaplan I'm a big fan of "If I Could Smell Her Cunt - Dr. Lecter," and "It's Me! - Dr. Lecter and the Police" makes me think that it's The Police's revenge on Sting. But the best one? Put the Fucking Lotion in the Basket" by Buffalo Bill and Catherine.
Blake at 6:45:00 PM