Recent Links » August 2006
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- Negativland At SeaFair → Don’t know what this is, but my friend sent it to me…
- The Panama Deception → Video on Google that “documents the untold story of the December 1989 U.S. invasion of Panama”
- Vernor Vinge on the Singularity → Sci-fi author and mathematics professor Vernor Vinge takes on implications of superhuman intelligence within the on-coming Singularity
- Technology Without Ends → “A Critique of Technocracy as a Threat to Being”
- The Engineered Society → “Reform party movements can be pretty weird in the best of times; imagine what they might have been like in the worst.”
- Why Religion Must End → “A leading atheist says people must embrace rationalism, not faith–or they will never overcome their differences.” - *Yawn*… did this guy just step out of the 1700’s or something?
- The Brights → What is a bright? Something or other to do with atheists trying to make themselves sound smarter than everybody else, I think…
- Celebrity Atheists → “Who’s who among the godless…”
- Business consulting comes to ‘Second Life’ → Myself, I’m gonna try and focus on my “first” life for a while but in the meantime, check that article out, as well as my many posts about Second Life
- Snakes On A Director → Interview with David Ellis, director of “Snakes on a Plane”
- Country Singer Kills Tame Bear → Country singer Troy Gentry is accused of buying a tame bear and killing it in a pen, video-taping the whole thing to make it appear as though he killed it in the wild
- The RFID zapper → Disrupting RFID chips
- Feds Label Wi-Fi a Terrorist Tool → What a freakin’ surprise!
- Tibetan Wi-Fi Website Attacked → “Organizers of a community wireless mesh-network project in Dharamshala, India, say their website was attacked on Thursday, following publication of a Wired News article about their work for Tibetan refugee settlements.” Is it part of a Chinese government infowar program?
- Flatland: The Movie → This looks really damn cheesy… and apparently Martin Sheen is in it. Go figure!
- Political candidates court MySpace voters → This is certainly not news to anyone who has actually spent any time on MySpace. It seems to be positively crawling with political and other groups…
- Godspy → Very interesting and seemingly progressive-slanted Catholic online culture magazine. And I know from that description it probably sounds crappy, but it’s actually not!
- The Tyranny of Choice → “Why are people increasingly unhappy even as they experience greater material abundance and freedom of choice? Recent psychological research suggests that increased choice may itself be part of the problem.”
- DNA LSD → Nobel Prize genius Crick was high on LSD when he discovered the secret of life
- US to have behaviour officers at airports → F’ing crazy - “Taking a page from Israeli airport security, the US transportation agency is experimenting with new squads whose members do not look for bombs, guns or knives but keep an eye on anyone with evil intent.”
- The Gordian Worm → Crazy parasitic worm stuff
- Aftermath News → From the site: “Aftermath News has been created to inform people on the true workings of governments, political parties, corporations, media, religions and other apparatuses of control. The reader is encouraged to think independently about these issues, get empowered and resist.”
- The UK Terror plot: What’s Really Going On? → See? Torture does work! We told you!
- Goodbye to the United States → What a wimp! Leaving just when things are starting to get really interesting. I say good riddance to these people. Our place is here!
- Beyond belief → From yoga to punk, notorious occultist Aleister Crowley has had a profound influence on modern culture, writes Tim Cummings
- FCC cracks down on ‘fake news’ → “The Federal Communications Commission has mailed letters to the owners of 77 television stations inquiring about their use of video news releases, a type of programming critics refer to as ‘fake news’.” - Why am I sure this isn’t going to change anything?
- SpookyDark → Bad news, commentary & things that go bump in the night . . .
- Closed for Maintenance → Super sweet and ironic photo from D.C. on Flickr
- Mr. Washington → Great photo of that classic D.C. sculpture of George Washington in the “Baphomet” pose
- Ex-CIA contractor guilty of beating detainee → So then why are the two people appearing in the photo with this news story smiling?
- Ramsey patsy → Bloggers are speculating that the man arrested for the Ramsey murder ain’t the one who done it
- Suspect says Ramsey death ‘an accident’ → Man arrested in Bangkok for JonBenet Ramsey murder
- Roadside America → Great online resource for strange sites and roadside attractions across the US
- Maine Mystery Beast Possibly Killed by Car → Locals are calling it a “hybrid mutant” and one exclaimed, “It was evil, evil looking. And it had a horrible stench I will never forget.”
- Monotheistic & Polytheistic Mind Theories → An old article I wrote about various ways of looking at the human mind
- NSA eavesdropping program ruled unconstitutional → I guess there is *some* semblance of law still left in this country
- OldSuperstitions.com → Bills itself as the largest database of superstitions on the web
- Deadly Superstitions → Superstitious beliefs related to death and dying
- U.K. opens door to war pardons → UK makes moves to pardon over 300 World War I era soldiers who were executed for cowardice and desertion
- Cured by the devil → A cancer survivor says that a local doctor told her she had been cured by the devil.
- 9/11 conspiracy theorists energized → Straight from the mouth of CNN
- Meme Therapy → Interesting blog which describes itself as covering “life from a science fiction point of view.”
- A World Without Movie Theatres → A brief look at the changing state of the entertainment industry
- Consensus Trance → An interview with Charles Tart about how we are all in hypnotic trances most of the time
- television: opiate of the masses → Disinfo looks at effects of TV on the brain…
- The Ultimate Diversion → Is the on-going Middle East situation merely a diversion to keep us away from the fact that the value of the dollar is tanking?
- The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship → Looks like a cool book from Paul & Philip Collins
- Occult Origins of Science → Information-collection thread I started on the Rigorous Intuition forum…
- Copperfield says he’s found Fountain of Youth → “You can take dead leaves, they come in contact with the water, they become full of life again. … Bugs or insects that are near death, come in contact with the water, they’ll fly away. It’s an amazing thing, very, very exciting.”
- Everybody Is a Star, er, Planet → Astronomers debate whether or not to change number of planets in solar system to 12
- Augmented Reality Video Demo → Real life combined with computer graphics - the wave of the future…
- RIAA Goes Bonkers! → RIAA Gives Family 60 Days To Grieve Before Continuing Case Against Dead Man
- Can a “Personal MBA” Match the Real McCoy? → What the hell is a personal MBA?
- Brian Swimme on Google Video → The cosmologist Brian Swimme on the Story of the Universe and it’s implications for how we live our daily life
- Faith Days at the Ballfield → Wherein “churches will get discounted tickets to family-friendly evenings of music and sports with a Christian theme. And in return, they mobilize their vast infrastructure of e-mail and phone lists, youth programs and chaperones, and of course their bus fleets, to help fill the stands.”
- Iran’s president launches weblog → Smart move designed to gain greater support from the American and international audiences who already are sympathetic towards his county’s current position!
- Evangelicals Are Addicted to Porn → Focus on the Phallus…
- Ben’s Kite Never Flew → Did Benjamin Franklin discover electricity by flying his famous kite? Evidence points to no…
- The Culture Jammer’s Encyclopedia → Ideas and tips on how to subvert mass media and culture
- President calls Lebanon a front in ‘global war on terrorism’ → Oh, golly gee! What a surprise!
- Entomology has occult origins → Don’t know if I agree with their use of the word “occult,” but the connections they make to circus freak shows are pretty interesting.
- Sexually Transmitted Cancer → Coming to a dog near you! How long before this one makes the leap into humans and becomes the next big scare?
- Panel Suggests Using Inmates in Drug Trials → Horrid inhuman experimentation on prisoners advocated by mysterious “panel” obviously made up of pharma reps
- JAH Truth → A prophetic-type, New Agey, conspiracy, UFO sort of website that claims to be “the most ground-breaking and informative site on the Net.” I’m sure…
- Navy’s new message: your country needs you, especially if you are gay → Apparently the British navy is undergoing some changes…
- Dutch blog content to be turned into newspaper → Pretty cool concept
- Hacking the Mind → “The similarities between the methods used to exploit a computer network and the language patterns involved in hypnosis and neuro linguistic programming (NLP) are striking.”
- Reinforcing patterns → What the hell? Terrorists are using the internet now? We better shut the whole thing off!
- Stranger Than Fiction → Bush just read Albert Camus’ tale of existential murder, “The Stranger” while on vacation at his Texas Ranch. WTF?
- Foundation of Ethics & Morality In A Technocracy → A thread I just started on the Technocracy, Inc. forums in order to get them to clarify their position on human rights and related issues
- NukAlert → Keychain radiation monitor and alarm
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