Filed under: Sometimes I make music
Richard came to visit me on his spring break. He grabbed a guitar and told me to record what he was playing. Matt Coy added a bass part and I recorded drums later. This is why the timing is a bit off. DRUMS FIRST!
Filed under: News
What good time I had taking these photos and participating. I also made sure to yell “viva zapata!” near a live news camera to remind the viewers of that particular day’s significance. Photos here
Filed under: I predicted it and it came true
Ok, yeah we all knew this was happening and it was only a matter of time before the media reported it as such but I was like, 15 when I called this one. I predicted it and it came true. I did the research, I knew it was going to happen when the US went in there. What could I do but get thrown in jail and tasered from protesting it? Nothing. Hooray bureaucratic states of a "representative" America. Taking back power for the man since 1776 and ignoring the scientific and philosophical triumphs of the enlightenment.
Official: Iraq in 'Undeclared Civil War'
Apr 8, 4:15 PM (ET)
By MARIAM FAM
(AP) Iraqi mourners carry the coffin of Ahmed Ali, an engineering student who was killed in Friday's…
Full ImageBAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – A car bomb killed six people Saturday near a Shiite shrine south of Baghdad, and the death toll from the deadliest attack of the year rose to nearly 90. A senior official warned Iraq was in an "undeclared civil war" that can be curbed only by a strong government and greater powers for security services.
With sectarian tensions rising, U.S. Marines on Saturday beat back the largest attack in weeks by Sunni Arab insurgents in the western city of Ramadi – another sign of the crisis facing this country three years after Baghdad fell to U.S. forces.
Filed under: quaint expression
The Mole Rat is proclaimed as the only known mammal with a caste system where there is a single caste devoted to reproduction. Members of this caste just sit around and eat what the other members of the colony bring back for them so that one day they will make healthy mates to find other fat mates to do the mating and I'm tired… my point: was there not a particular time in history where the in the practice of a particular traditional culture women just sat around and made babies? While we can speak the language of other humans, sometimes words get in the way of the bigger picture and we see ourselves as separate from the world. We have computers and tv dinners and devices to make sex better but all of this is of no advancement compared to the phenomenon of life itself and it seems so popular to reject the idea of other realities other than the one we hold on to so desperately. This is all silly. We're all silly little monkeys that play with ourselves and we take this game to seriously. You are even taking me to seriously. To further illustrate my point, here is an advertisment.
Filed under: News
Prediction: The Garden Ninjas and the Sock Drawer Arranging Pirates will someday fight over territory…
The Times April 08, 2006
Blooming street craze that leaves authorities seeing green
By Will PaviaIT IS the latest gang to explode in the concrete canyons of South London, bringing not knives, nor drugs, nor guns — but plants.
They congregate at night beside roundabouts and road junctions, armed with trowels and spades.
The authorities say there is little they can do to stop the rapidly expanding guerrilla movement from planting every neglected patch of soil with rows of hyacinths, rosemary and Day-Glo primulas, tidying up afterwards and returning regularly to water and weed.
They call themselves the Guerrilla Gardeners and in five months they have grown from one man with a passion for shrubs to more than five hundred. On a Thursday night they appeared at a triangular traffic island a mile south of Waterloo, carrying sacks of mulch, a water dispenser and tools. They started weeding.
Filed under: Science
Next they're going to build cell phones out of vaccines.
MIT Builds Batteries with Viruses
By Ed Oswald, BetaNews
April 7, 2006, 12:49 PM
Normally, one would associate the word virus with something negative, whether it is a malfunctioning desktop computer or a sickness. However, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have "trained" viruses in a lab to create a miniature battery.
By manipulating a few genes within the virus, researchers were able to get the organism to grow and then assemble itself into a functional electronic device. They hope to be able to build a battery that could be as small as a grain of rice
Filed under: Science
oh, Liz! I hope this was a vague reference to the weather underground…
April 6 2006
The changing Earth demands changing life
What are the implications of breeding toxicity on our own planet? What does it mean to produce food from large scale agriculture systems using petrochemicals, and genetic engineering? What is happening to the changing environment? What will it mean for the organisms of planet earth to be alive in the next 1000 years? While the population doubles every 50 years, the systems we use to feed, house, and medicate are becoming increasingly stressed to fill demand. But the systems aren't the only ones stressed; Ecosystems, tropic structures, and even the human body are forced to endure the changing environment.
Technology has become absolutely necessary to sustain human life, but its byproducts have their side effects on the planetary systems and all living creatures:
1. We all live downstream now
A recent study tested American Rivers and lakes in each of the continental states. Every single sample taken proved positive for contaminants of… more
Filed under: Sometimes I make music
This is a slightly new one. Some of my friends have already heard this one but now it's mastered. I recorded some thunder while I was in my garage chillin chillin. Later, I used three second time-lag accumulator loops with a few guitar pedal effects thrown in to emulate sounds of birds and animals. Its painful to sit and listen to so just put it on repeat as you do some reading.
Filed under: I predicted it and it came true
Sometimes I predict things and then they come true. So, I decided to create a new category just for when this happens no matter how trivial the prediction. The thing I predicted that came true today was an easy one that any adbusters loving/ video game playing youngster like myself saw coming when we were playing GTA3 and even before that.
April 5, 2006
Advertising has been creeping into video games in the past few years as virtual billboards that hawk real-world products like soft drinks and computer gear.The publisher of online science-fiction game Project Entropia is taking the idea one step further by giving players the tools to put up their own advertising in the game.
The latest release of the game, created by MindArk PE AB of Sweden, features advertising billboards. Through a PowerPoint-like system, players create animated ads and buy time on the billboards.
So far, the ads have been promoting player-organized in-game events like fashion shows and hunting competitions, as well as businesses like stores and hunting grounds, said Marco Behrmann, MindArk’s directory of player relations.
MindArk said it was the first player-oriented advertising tool built into a game.
In another virtual world, Second Life, players who master its tools can create almost anything they want, including advertising, and enterprising players have created their own ad-exchange program on a website.
MindArk also announced a collaboration with New York-based Massive Inc., which distributes ads from companies like The Coca Cola Co. and Warner Bros. for inclusion in more than 100 games. Ads distributed by Massive will show up on billboards in Project Entropia.
Project Entropia has 400,000 registered users, far behind the 5.5 million users for the most popular online game, World of Warcraft. But Project Entropia has a sophisticated economic model, including a virtual currency, convertible to real-world dollars at a fixed exchange rate.
AP
