Truth

The boundlessness of my own stupidity is the most important lesson I have ever learned in my entire life.

I rarely think of linking to Cracked, mostly because I assume anyone with a Facebook account has someone that links to every article already. That said, this was a perfect quote.

So.....When you're busy

You're busy. And I've been busy. And lazy. And distraction and sleepy. Free time has been a mix of running and crafting. So, since I am incredibly lazy, a realllllllly long post of things I have found to post.

Doctor Who named best Sci-Fi show. Hell yes!!

What real T-Rex's look like. Feathers and all! Wait........what?

The Insanity Virus:

The idea has sparked skepticism, but after decades of hunting, Torrey and his colleagues think they have finally found the infectious agent. You might call it an insanity virus. If Torrey is right, the culprit that triggers a lifetime of hallucinations—that tore apart the lives of writer Jack Kerouac, mathematician John Nash, and millions of others—is a virus that all of us carry in our bodies. “Some people laugh about the infection hypothesis,” says Urs Meyer, a neuroimmunologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. “But the impact that it has on researchers is much, much, much more than it was five years ago. And my prediction would be that it will gain even more impact in the future.”

What if country size was equal to population size?

Last, check out my Amazon wish list for the most awesome pair of scissors ever!

The Internet? Bah!

What the Internet hucksters won't tell you is tht the Internet is one big ocean of unedited data, without any pretense of completeness. Lacking editors, reviewers or critics, the Internet has become a wasteland of unfiltered data. You don't know what to ignore and what's worth reading. Logged onto the World Wide Web, I hunt for the date of the Battle of Trafalgar. Hundreds of files show up, and it takes 15 minutes to unravel them--one's a biography written by an eighth grader, the second is a computer game that doesn't work and the third is an image of a London monument. None answers my question, and my search is periodically interrupted by messages like, "Too many connectios, try again later."

You can't blame the writer for his opinions. It was 15 years ago, the internet was still fresh ground for everything. I remember 1995 as AOL being ruler and the internet was a matter of staying in their 'webshell' a term now completely outdated. From the original Geocities accounts, I can see how anyone would be pessimistic about the internet becoming a more comprehensive, usable idea. I am now able to laugh about the idea of the cacophony of the internet, mostly due to growing up half my life with this concept and constantly getting new ways to overcome the problems. "You don't know what to ignore and what's worth reading. Logged onto the World Wide Web, I hunt for the date of the Battle of Trafalgar. Hundreds of files show up, and it takes 15 minutes to unravel them" When you think on it, it really is amazing how these concerns are made so simple thanks to Google and Wikipedia. Poplar blogs, news sites, Digg, Fark, Reddit, etc. All the reasons that were never supposed to happen filled i the void, just as Paypal, Amazon and Facebook have filled in the other concerns laid forth.

If nothing else, as interesting an article as anything from the early 1900's about what we ould be capable of by 2000.

Art Dump

Kathy Olivas's Misery Children
Observations by Scott Waterman
Creative Thrift Shop
Polyscene: Works by Polly Veritas


Fantastic artists always astound me. And make me want to pull out my paints and oil pastels and go to town.

..via MocoLoco

Link Dump II

The iLimb goes on sale today. Now if only everyone I know with broken bits had issues only with the hand and an extra $18k lying around to throw down for one.

Paan flavored condom wins taste test. B/c this isn't news, it's CNN.

Fujitsu phones that survive underwater. Also known as a division of Fujitsu actually makes money instead of lose it all!

Explore Evolution: The Arguments For and Against Neo-Darwinism. Evolving Creationism makes sense!!!!

Again, link dump

My neck hurts. As does my wrist. Lots. I can feel the joints popping in my brain.

In other news, link dump. In no order read:

AT&T is the evil Empire

'Lost' gives up: much like Spider Jerusalem

Magnets give full nights sleep in 3 hours..Fantastic until the Alzheimers kicks in

Hollywood lacks fresh ideas........root for Gerard!!!

288 dead 13 years ago b/c of politics: Reversal of what should happen, and I hate kids.

Green light, filter, alive and fantastical design

Prom Baby: When 4 years of stress and partying make less sense than a lifetime of responsibility

Skin disease in 3rd world Counry:As much as empathy can go for this, I cannot feel bad b/c a few hundred people have a bad insect bite that can scar. Look at the rest of the world diseases I cannot fully comprehend and ask me again about the importance of this.


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So, lastly, one final link. I like that this was not put up to a general vote, but that yet again, the caucus influenced enough to get a decision. Welcome (if passed) the end of Sterlings, Carsons, Fox and Hound, Bodega and all others that are as we like:
Texas House bans smoking

Link Dump

So tonight has been divided between baking deserts for tomorrow's family dinner, cooking lasagna and supplemental foods for the seven people over for game and spending much too many hours online reading news and the like. So rather than a few different entries, everything goes all together, feel free to pick and choose.

And yes, I did manage to burn half the cookies. The lasagna was great, but not like I did anything but put it in the oven. The brownies are still in the oven, and I did work quite hard at stirring the mix with my broken wrist.

Tale of a 13 Year Old Prostitute: Bias Against Being a US Citizen

Fundamentalist Secularists and the Religion of Atheism

My Brief Career As A Phone-sex Worker Doesn't pay off it seems

Ten Things Your Boss Hates About You

Pink Floyd the same without Roger Waters

New York Auto Show Preview

Laura Miller Should DIAF.... Noble cause, stupid, stupid woman copycat instead of thinking for herself..

What Religion Should You Be? Stupid quiz to decide if you lakcing the ability to think...Somehow I'm torn directly between Atheism and Agnoticism. Same damn score....

Free is Good

101 Free PC Applications and Sites

For all of you who have not converted over to the Mac world.

..Or I Was Genius...

From almost exactly five years ago. The first answer is from March 2002, the other from tonight. Yes, some are the same. Funny I think how in some ways I was a terruble person then.

And Taba, I never added it up but over 5 years by now. So, without further review, I am retarded...


I am: insastiable/sleepy
I hurt: tendons in my ankle/right shoulder & neck
I love: androgenous guys/not being young anymore
i hate: rushed judgments/knowing the future
i cry: never/never unless my body gives out
i fear: flunking this semester/getting what I want
i hope: i get out of this funk soon/for simplicity
i feel alone: always/often and yet never
i waste: non-existent money/my time in front of a computer
i talk: about Rand/about nothing
i listen: to other people's bitching/to only a few songs of 40 gig of music
i break: my will
i see: through rose colored glasses (literally)/more than I should
i smell: easy-bake oven cookies/stale cigarettes
i taste: stale cigarettes/French rum
i work: too little/too much
i remember: trying to fly off the patio at home on windy days by flapping my arms/drinking hot 151 from plastic cups
i hold: abyss-like emotions that i never show
i hide: in my closet, a bag of starburst jellybeans for my roommate/any pain, b/c I cannot afford the doctor
i pray: that someday i find faith in something other than myself/I see the point of praying
i walk: carefully now, occasionally with a brace/with a purpose
i drive: my car on love, gas costs too much/a retardo car
i burn: wishes/the past
i breathe: always through my mouth/better without smoking
i play: with other people's minds/wiht photoshop on my mac
i miss: nikolai
i learn: "that our minds are like windows 98 machines"/how little I know each day
i feel: sagacious/ineffable
i know: everything i need to right now/something has to give
i dream: about killing people or fighting/of things I don’t remember
i have: my watch back from fossil!/an empty tummy
i want: my suitemates to quit throwing their food away in the sink and for them to buy toilet paper now and then/liquor to cost less
i fall: down the stairs, across flat ground, when my friends drop me on my head
i await: notification if my 4th ticket is off my record/knowledge of whether I will ever be hired or fired
i live: for myself only/…
i die: when i choose not to think/when I think too much
my hair: is half blonde and half red/long and natural
my makeup: as dark, as always/is variable and colorful
my dream: i'll work for national geographic someday/i’ll learn to be decisive
my obsession: singing and writing/online news portals
my most attractive feature(s): my selfishness/my green fatty eyes
my favorite thing to do: have an epitome/feel better than meh..
i'm wearing: ratty jeans, tank top and sheer cover jacket/jeans, powder blue blue tee
i'm eating: nothing/what’s food?
i'm drinking: diet coke/French rum
i'm listening to: placebo, taste in man/bat for lashes, sad eyes
i'm feeling: like i need coffee/sleep should be soon
i'm thinking: that i'm wasting my time doing this, but i don't want to write a real entry
i find: myself continuously discontent

Yay Joel Johnson!

"And you guys just ate it up. Kept buying shitty phones and broken media devices green and dripping with DRM. You broke the site, clogging up the pipe like retarded salmon, to read the latest announcements of the most trivial jerk-off products, completely ignoring the stories about technology actually making a difference to real human beings, because you wanted a new chromed robot turd to put in your pocket to impress your friends and make you forget for just a few minutes, blood coursing as you tremblingly cut through the blister pack, that your life is utterly void of any lasting purpose."

If Spider Jerusalem wrote for Gizmodo, the above is the type of editorial we'd see everyday. Click the quote for the full text.

Destroy Your Television

The amazing thing is just how many of these I have read. And with the travesty that is ccoming with the new film version of Atlas Shrugged, I am perfectly content to not see these made into movies. I just finished MurakamiThe Wind Up Bird Chronicle and as amazing as the novel was, I would hate to see it destroyed by plotting it out visually.

Unfilmable Books

Ilubmayob

"We will be looking at if and how we can integrate the embedded product into existing Fujitsu products, like self-checkout devices, or our handheld platform or point-of-sale terminals," says Beecher. These applications would be used for reading item-level RFID tags.

And of course, this explains the entire point of having the downstairs breakroom turned into a grocery store mock-up for the past year.

Sometimes People are Suprising

Why Do You Blog?

An interesting harvesting of information. If I was planning a trip to Canada in the near future I would schedule the lecture in. However I am not. There are prizes for filling it out. Help the man. Now.

Women, Know Your Limits

...via Noritha

Who Needs a Soul?

"The Rational Response Squad is giving away 1001 DVDs of The God Who Wasn't There, the hit documentary that the Los Angeles Times calls "provocative -- to put it mildly."

There's only one catch: We want your soul.

It's simple. You record a short message damning yourself to Hell, you upload it to YouTube, and then the Rational Response Squad will send you a free The God Who Wasn't There DVD. It's that easy."

Blasphemy Challenge

To Dream

What would life be like without Feminism?

All this tells me is that I would not exist. My body might still be around, but I as a person wouldn't be possible. And since I'm awesome, the world is a better place now. Go feminism.

And from my friend Rebecca: "I personally love how they manage to blame women for single-handedly making everybody obese. That's the icing on the cake"

I'm glad to not be wee

Why Americans are shorter than Europeans

The Feeling of Going to Work

Also, check out Gizmodo over the next few days. They've been covering CES and there's some pretty interesting gadgets and technology coming out.

Especially Good for Firefox Users

Unknown Google Applications

Short on time, too much information

Apple Myths 2006
Anti HIV Condoms
Darwin Galaxy
High tech watches you can't buy