January 2010
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2000-2009 In Review
Well we fucked that one up lets try to do better next decade.
December 2009
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HIV Plush Toy →
Seriously? MERRY CHRISTMAS I GOT YOU AIDS ^_^
If HIV isn’t your bag they’ve got herpes and syphilis too, and if you get syphilis you’re in luck cause they’ve also got a penicillin plush toy.
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I was reading about that guy that tried to blow up that Northwest Airlines plane, and it got me wondering if they’ve ever actually caught someone before they were going to do something like this. I mean they have all these draconian rules, but they never seem to actually catch anyone, at least you never hear about it. You hear about how US senators are on the do not fly list, old white...
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Neolithic Booze-hounds →
I think the assertion alcohol was the reason for agriculture is a bit far-fetched, but I have no doubt ancient humans were big fans of the sauce. Still interesting nonetheless.
Become a Photovor! →
This article raises some good questions about how ethical being a vegan really is. Because plants aren’t furry and cute, because they don’t make noise, don’t move around, or react to danger in a manner we’re accustomed to they aren’t worth the consideration of life? Guess we’re all going to have to learn to photosynthesize if we want to be ethical in deriving...
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Mario made with genetically engineered bacteria →
Alternate Title: Japanese grad-students waste resources making an icon of their geekery while using their giant nerd brains. Internet is excited, and so is blogger.
Watchwolfsham:
fiverabbits:
From YT: “The Known Universe takes viewers … at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.”
Ryan, cosmic background radiation is just the devil trying to trick you.
Dammit! I bet he also arranged the sediments and rocks of the earth into distinct layers to make it look like the Earth is ~4 billion years and that the way the Earth looks now was the...
Things I don't understand
wolfsham:
People using leaf blowers in Lubbock in 30 mph wind.
I don’t understand people using leaf blowers period, all they do is blow the crap into someone else’s yard. Great now your yard looks nice, but you’ve made everything else look like crap. /rant
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http://www.videosift.com/video/BBC-Horizon-How-Many... →
A long video but very interesting, which is a given since it’s got David Attenborough in it.
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5 Songs About Having Sex With Robots →
(via lidel)
6 Annoying Things Hollywood Needs to Stop Doing →
6 and 4 are my biggest gripes, but mostly 4. When CGI is done well you should barely notice it, you shouldn’t say, THAT’S AWESOME CGI, you should say, THAT’S AN AWESOME SCENE. I almost prefer movies before CGI special effects were so prevalent, they knew the special effects by themselves were hokey looking and they did a lot to try and hide it. Now its like they’re...
Furry boyfriend
wolfsham:
When I was 17 and lived in Houston I met a guy at the gay coffee shop I hung out at. His name was Eric, but he liked to be called Spike. Spike was attractive, a little hyper active, but funny. He was blindingly pale, had black curly hair and deep set blue eyes. He wore a dog collar and wrist cuffs. He liked me like no other guy. He claimed me. When we had sex, he made dog noises, which...
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While I'm on the subject: TIGER WOODS
Why in the hell get married if you still want to fuck around, a lot. I know on some occasions people have arrangements with their spouses and that’s fine, both partners are aware and have consented. That doesn’t seem to be the case with Tiger and Elin, I mean what better way to say I don’t give a fuck about you than to cheat on someone with what is it now 10-12 others. I mean...
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Odd Norwegian Lights caused by Russian Rocket →
This is a follow up to a link I posted a few days ago. I thought it might have been some kind of stunt pulled by a bunch of nerdy pranksters. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s learned later some cellphone company paid the Russian military to do this for some viral marketing campaign.
Odd spiral light show over Norway →
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OCDragon Age
So I mentioned OCD tendencies in a previous blog posting, continuing along those lines I’d like to mention how like an opiate games like Dragon Age are too me. They’re so vast and intricate in scale and have so much content, they’re both a dream and a nightmare to me. I relish in diving into those worlds and exploring everything, and doing everything, but everything is a lot...
Watchtimotheee:
Steven Pinker - The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
This talk offers one take on human behavior from a sociobiology, evolutionary psychology lens. The implications of this view are so profound that is understandable why this explanation is met with so much criticism, disbelief, and fear.
Legion
I just saw this preview for the movie Legion. It looks awful in so many ways, but its already inciting the christian camps on both sides. I love youtube comments
“go back to mexico and worship your 8000 god” Wouldn’t be Youtube without racism
“Yes, because he’s never actually wiped us off the face of the Earth before. Oh wait… he has.” Well...
"Fear is the prison of the heart"
myserendipities:
“Perhaps our most destructive interpersonal anxiety is our fear of intimacy. Some people will do anything to avoid the risks that come with opening oneself fully to another human being. I continually hear lonely people talk about how careful one must be to avoid being hurt. On Internet dating sites the mythical ax murderer plays a prominent role in discouraging contact. Those...
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“[W]e need to make vast changes in human behaviour, and we cannot make them with...”
– BF Skinner (via quotedb)
A good quote from Skinner, very indicative of his theories. Too me he’s one of the more Revered and reviled people in psychology, doing so much to progress psychology and yet at the same time stifling its growth in other areas.
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OCD as a Positive Trait
A professor of mine once commented you had to be OCD to be a grad student. A *backhanded insult if I’ve ever heard one. But it makes an interesting point, the same traits that may alienate people from the rest of the society, makes them adept at performing other tasks. If you want something done and you want it done well it’s going to take someone with some OCD tendencies to do...
Usedta died
I asked for a coffee mug for Christmas, with something geeky on it, and maybe slightly larger than a regular mug. I did this because I figured it’d be easy to find and so I wouldn’t have to pick it out personally, which is what I always end up doing for everything.
Apparently nobody sells coffee mugs anymore, at least not with anything geeky on them. I swear they used to have little...
