Recent Links » September 2006
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- Birthmarks and Birth Defects Corresponding to Wounds on Deceased Persons → Some kind of research suggesting there is a link between birthmarks on children and wounds incurred on people who they were in past lives. I myself have a very visible birthmark on my neck which I have wondered about in this regard for some time as well.
- White House Doodles → Strange sketches reveal insights into presidential lives and minds
- SHARP - Interview with Ska-Boom → A reader sent me this a while ago on the subject of Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice
- An Introduction to Manicheism → PDF’s on this ancient Iranian religion
- Sexual Skills for the Christian Husband → “You (and your wife’s) days of living in quiet sexual desperation are over…” Whew! Finally!
- Xxenogenesis LP mp3’s → “Fans of weird spoken word records and proto psycho-babble are in for a treat. Here is the entire 1973 LP by a very strange guy from Florida named Exenogenesis”
- High Times Interview with Richard Schultes → About the father of modern ethnobotany
- Fifteen Anti-Primitivist Theses → This guy has a hat and a beard and a bunch of ideas about why primitivism is wrong!
- History of the Button → “Tracing the history of interaction design through the history of the button, from flashlights to websites and beyond.”
- Richard Evans Schultes → Erowid, a very good psychedelics site, takes a look at Schultes, considered to be the father of modern ethnobotany
- History of Joseph the Carpenter → An early apocryphal Christian text offering more information about the step-father of Jesus.
- Solemnity of Saint Joseph → The Feast Day of St. Joseph, March 19
- Thomas A Kempis @ Wikiquote → Some quotes from this medieval Christian author. My favorite: “Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.”
- Of The Imitation of Christ → Christian devotional text by Thomas A Kempis
- Parasitic weed sniffs out its prey → Recent scientific study suggests that plants make choices
- plant perception (a.k.a. the Backster effect) → The Skeptic’s Dictionary takes on the topic of plant consciousness
- Plant Consciousness → Another page on the subject with some additional links at the bottom for further reflection
- Plant Consciousness: Do Plants Think? → An article on a horticultural site
- Natural Fruit Tree Shapes → What does it mean for a plant to have a “natural” shape and how can people give it one?
- Herbalgram → The website of the American Botanical Council
- Jesus’ Alien Ancestors? → “Sir Laurence Gardner made a name tracing the lineage of Jesus to the present day. Then he took a look back to an alien ancestry. We look for the truth about extraterrestrial genealogy.”
- History Of Mescaline → “The white man goes into his church house and talks about Jesus; The Indian goes into his teepee and talks to Jesus.”
- Ethnobotany Research and Applications → “A Journal of Plants, People and Applied Research”
- Vaccines for poor countries contain hormone disrupters → Are Third World countries being covertly sterilized with vaccines?
- Clinton’s Renewable Energy Fund → “Former President Clinton announced the launch of an investment fund expected to raise more than $1 billion for renewable energy on Friday”
- Gandhi’s Gonna Kick My Ass for This → When is violence justified?
- Celebration of Souls → A Day of the Dead exhibit is opening at the University of Washington’s Burke Museum on September 30th!
- Complete Cultivation Practice by Assisting Teacher in Fa Rectification → A Falun Gong practitioner talks about alien spirits and cloning
- Washington growers bemoan labor shortage as apple harvest begins → Stricter immigration controls mean less labor and money lost in American business
- Court says $32,000 is too much to fondle bosom → Too good of a headline to pass up…
- Muslims Collect Money to Rebuild Burned Churches → “A group of American Muslims is using compassion to counter the violent reactions of fellow Muslims who were angered by Pope Benedict XVI’s controversial remarks about Islam.”
- Chirac says Osama Bin Laden death not confirmed → Wait, so we’re supposed to believe that the idea that someone might not have died is newsworthy? Smells like propaganda to me!
- Start breeding, ladies, or society will fall apart → A feminist website takes issue with the themes expressed in the upcoming “Children of Men” movie coming out this Christmas. See my first look at the trailer here. But wait a minute though - if women did stop having babies altogether *wouldn’t* society fall apart?
- The waves of existence → Basic primer of the waves or memes in Spiral Dynamics
- What is your worldview? → Halfway decent quiz you can take online. The results of the quiz are not half as informative as the questions themselves though.
- Memes & vMemes → An explanation of Spiral Dynamics
- Leo Strauss → Avi Solomon has put together some links and a quick primer on Leo Strauss
- Losing faith in Peak Oil’s transformative Power → Peak Oil as a liberatory symbol starting to diminish? I think so!
- A Low Impact Woodland Home → Super-sweet Hobbit looking house
- Free State Project → “The Free State Project is an effort to recruit 20,000 liberty-loving people to move to New Hampshire.” Seems pretty cool!
- Urban Tribes → “About Urban Tribes, the Importance of Friendship, and the Marriage Delay”
- SmartMobs - The Next Social Revolution → “Mobile communication, pervasive computing, wireless networks, collective action.” - Could this be the means toward the re-tribalisation of society?
- Death to you all → (Anti) Genocidal rantings from my good friend JK
- Al Qaeda and What It Means to Be Modern → Review of a book I’ve been meaning to get!
- Raping children part of ‘men’s business’ → Horrible news out of Australian Aboriginal camps
- The Child as Poison Container → Creepy thread from RigInt board: “Indeed, my conclusion from a lifetime of psychohistorical study of childhood and society is that the history of humanity is founded upon the abuse of children.”
- Sex-With-Corpse Scheme Busted → WTF? “Woman’s obituary photo spurred Wisconsin trio’s grave robbery attempt”
- 9/11 in a Movie-Made World → Tom Engelhardt asks what would have gone differently had the towers not collapsed.
- Alistair on NLP → Scroll down to the August 26th, 2006 show, where Alistair Kinnear, a frequent commenter at Pop Occulture discusses pre-suppositions and how they shape our reality
- Grant Morrison Talks Batman → Morrison on the direction he wants to take Batman - who was always one of my favorite comic characters!
- Jesus Camp → “‘Jesus Camp,’ from documakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady (”Boys of Baraka”), may shock many viewers, especially political liberals, when it shows children speaking in tongues, their faces glowing with ecstasy and tears running down their cheeks. Liberals might also be alarmed by images of 7-year-olds in camouflage face-paint performing spiritual war dances at summer camp and little hands reaching out to bless a cardboard cut-out of President George W. Bush in the hope of cinching a pro-life Supreme Court appointment.”
- Sharp, funny view of a stupid future → “Hurry. You might only have a couple of days. Go see “Idiocracy,” the new, practically censored movie from the guy behind “Office Space,” “King of the Hill” and “Beavis and Butt-Head.” You’ll have a lot of laughs, and you’ll be among the elite rebels who defied 20th Century Fox and caught the cool comedy the studio is trying very hard to hide.”
- “Idiocracy” marketing → “This man gave the world King of the Hill and Office Space. So why is Fox squashing his new movie?”
- Pinchbeck’s Letter to Rolling Stone → Daniel Pinchbeck’s “you got it all wrong” letter to Rolling Stone on their recent article about him.
- Samhain and Tending the Dead → A Pagan look at remembering your ancestors through ritual
- Looking at the Altar → The Smithsonian looks at ancestor altars
- Of Animism and Animorphs → “There’s a reason why children’s book publishers are inundated with picture books featuring talking animals. The books, TV shows, and movies that most strike a nerve with children are usually the ones that present the world as they naturally see it: animistically.”
- Nothing Beyond the Flesh → The Theocracy of Prima Materia (from ConspiracyArchive.com)
- MI5 has secret dossiers on one in 160 adults → Are Brits surprised by this? Cause I’m not!
- The Signs and Signals of Freemasonry → A short and fairly boring video by Tracy Twyman
- The Worst Analogies Ever Written in a High School Essay → Pretty much exactly what it says…
- Marching Morons → Billmon writes up Mike Judge’s new movie, “Idiocracy” which sounds amazing.
- Children of Men → Absolutely disturbing movie trailer for a movie whose tagline starkly promises: “NO CHILDREN. NO FUTURE. NO HOPE.”
- The Plants Respond → An Interview with Cleve Backster and Derrick Jensen
- Whose Unabomber? → An article about the Unabomber from 1995 by John Zerzan
- John Zerzan → Wikipedia page about this philosopher
- Time and its Discontents → Philosophical piece on time by John Zerzan, a prominent anarcho-primitivist thinker
- Nancy Burson: The Hand of God → “This artist/designer works with religious archetypes, life energy, and many other spiritual tangents in her art exhibition. “
- Mousterian Technology → Tools used by primitive hominids
- I Ching → As translated by Richard Wilhelm
- State of Emergency → Disgusting postmodern irony where Vogue Italy turns terrorism into a sexy fashion shoot.
- Neanderthal Apocalypse → “An international team of scientists thinks it has solved the ultimate mystery of the Neanderthals: where and when they made their last stand before extinction. It was at Gibraltar 28,000 years ago, about 2,000 years more recently than previously thought.”
- Hippo defends Antelope from the jaws of a crocodile → Very strange and short video of an unlikely situation
- Indications add up to government conspiracy → Opinion piece from the Seattle PI: “Seattle P-I editorial asked, “Where are the facts? Where is the evidence?” about government complicity in the 9/11 attacks.”
- Bad Credit History Can Put You At A Disadvantage In Job Search → Oh good, now they are going to effectively make it so that the people who are in the worst debt become only more screwed, since they won’t be able to find good jobs! Nice!
- The End of Eden → James Lovelock (inventor of the Gaia hypothesis) Says This Time We’ve Pushed the Earth Too Far
- Robotic Frisbees of Death → This is weird, because I had a dream over a year ago about a futuristic American police state which utilized the same technology which is being described in this article.
- Who Really Controls America → Pretty good George Carlin stand-up clip, even though I kind of hate him…
- Ten big news stories you aren’t hearing → List compiled by Project Censored of the major news stories the media in this country is ignoring
- The Anti-Technocracy Forum → A website against Technocracy, Inc, their goals and ideas which I was clued into via an email from Skip Seivert that I think may have been sent to me accidentally.
- Religion is no defense for polygamy, experts say → Oh… well, if “experts” say it, then it’s gotta be true, right? Phew!
- Climate change caused civilisation, scientist says → From the Guardian: “Severe climate change was the main driver behind the birth of civilisation, a scientist said yesterday.”
- Conspiracy Theorists Framed as the new ‘Terrorist’ → Discussion on same from Rigorour Intuition forum
- White House Targets Conspiracy Theorists As Terrorist Recruiters → Alex Jones’ take on the same document
- Strategy for Winning the War on Terror → The White House document which describes conspiracy theorists as recruiters for terrorism
- Windows HS → From CNN: “Microsoft designs a school system”
- “Convergent Spirituality” → What is convergent spirituality? Are we it? More on this soon!
- Protectors of Puget Sound → Very “Homeland Security” focused article about the Coast Guard from the Seattle PI
- Why The 9/11 Conspiracies Won’t Go Away → Courtesy of Time Magazine: “Turns out, we need grand theories to make sense of grand events, or the world just seems too random”
- ‘Simpsons’ creator: ‘Let’s keep doing it’ → Good god people! Just put this damn show out of it’s misery. I like how nowhere in this article does it mention that the creator of the show’s real motivation for continuing to do it is that it continues to make him and everyone else involved assloads of money!
- LonelyGirl15 - Is She or Isn’t She? → Alternate reality game, viral marketing or real honest to god person?
- Twenty Gandhis: Reclaiming 9/11 through Satyagraha → September 11, 2006 is not only the fifth anniversary of the WTC attacks, but also - maybe more importantly - of the founding of Satyagraha, Gandhi’s movement of nonviolent resistance. Which are you going to celebrate?
- Google developing eavesdropping software → Supposed plans by Google to use your computer microphone to listen in on what’s happening in your room (tv sounds, music, cell phone, etc) and serve you relevant advertisements based on it!
- Afghanistan opium cultivation skyrockets → Thank god for a “free” Afghanistan: “The record crop yielded 6,100 tons of opium, or enough to make 610 tons of heroin — outstripping the demand of the world’s heroin users by a third, according to U.N. figures.”
- Pentagon Moves Toward Monitoring Media → “The U.S. command in Baghdad is seeking bidders for a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for monitoring the tone of Iraq news stories filed by U.S. and foreign media.”
- Dumpster Diving Felony → Two men who took vegetables *from a garbage can* pleaded guilty to misdemeanor trespassing in exchange from the dropping of a more serious *felony* charge against them. Screwed up!
- When Does a Blog Become a Magazine? → Very relevant question for the Pop Occulture network of websites…
- Common St. Johnswort → A botanical description and cultural history of the plant known as St. John’s Wort (introduced into North America in 1696 by a band of Rosicrucians
- Making Cob Video → Video about creating the building material called “cob”, which consists of clay-rich soil, sand, straw, water, and good old fashioned human energy!
- The Cob Builders Handbook → “You Can Hand-Sculpt Your Own Home”
- Critical Thoughts About Tamagotchi → More scholarly thoughts on the subject of virtual pets
- Virtual Pet Research → Virtual Pet Technologies, Uses & Benefits and Market Case Studies - An Annotated Bibliography
- Animal Totems → As compared to Jungian archetypes
- French Driver Saves Virtual Tamagotchi Pet, Kills Cyclist → “A French driver killed a cyclist and injured another after she took her eye off the road trying to save her Tamagotchi virtual pet, police said Wednesday.”
- Signs of Witness → As described by BoingBoing: “Signs of Witness is a blog that covers news about religious people claiming that certain events and phenomena are evidence that the world is about to end. It’s excellent entertainment, and a little scary.”
- Plant Teachers → The Concept of Plants as Teachers among four Mestizo Shamans of Iquitos, Northeastern Perú
- ‘Crocodile Hunter’ Steve Irwin dies → I always thought that guy would never die, but all it took was a stingray barb to the heart…
- Jésus est-il Lucifer? → Someone translated one of my articles about Jesus & Lucifer into French. Cool!
- Stephen Hawking Asks For Help → Stephen Hawking recently posted a question online, to which he received 25,000 answers: “In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?”
- Papal Evolution → The Pope is getting together with his old doctoral students to have a deep discussion about evolution
- The Occult World of Commerce → Freaking amazing video lecture on law and culture from a quasi-conspiratorial but still credible perspective. That description doesn’t do it justice remotely though!
- A Link Between Religion and Obesity → Cypress Nemeton asks why Pagans and Baptists are fat
- Kenneth Anger’s Invocation of My Demon Brother → “The classic occult film starring Anton LaVey, Bobby Beausoleil, and Marjorie Cameron, with soundtrack by Mick Jaggger.”
- What Is Tensegrity? → A magical practice birthed by Carlos Castaneda
- Biography of Don Juan Matus → “Who was Don Juan Matus? Where did he come from? How did he get to be who he was? Where did he go?”
- The Teachings of Don Juan Matus → Overview of the work of Carlos Castaneda
- The Lottery in Babylon → A short story online by Jorge Luis Borges
- Blair to tackle ‘menace’ children → From the BBC: “Tomorrow’s potential troublemakers can be identified even before they are born, Tony Blair has suggested.”
- Chakra Test → Pretty decent short (56 questions) online quiz that gives you information on how your chakras are in or out of balance. My results seemed pretty accurate.
- Vonnegut’s Apocalypse → Kurt Vonnegut tells Rolling Stone that this is the end of the world, but I say fuck him. My world’s not ending.
- Crop Cops Take to the Sky → “Farmers may seem like trustworthy people, but the U.S. Department of Agriculture is taking no chances. It’s spending tens of millions of dollars to create an enormous computerized map of every farmer’s field in America.”
- Driving With Money is a Crime → “Eighth Circuit Appeals Court ruling says police may seize cash from motorists even in the absence of any evidence that a crime has been committed.” And once they put RFID into currency, it will be even easier for them to scan your car for cash!
- Rapper Mos Def Arrested → Outside the MTV Video Music Awards for performing without authorization a piece criticizing the Bush administration’s handling of the Hurricane Katrina situation
- Anthropik Podcasts → Podcasts critiquing civilization as we know it from the Anthropik Tribe
- Confessions of an Economic Shapeshifter → Jeff Wells explores John Perkins’ (author of “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”) depp interest in Amazonian shamanism
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