Tuesday 14 October 2008 at 6:55 pm
I'm fascinated by this sort of hypnosis/subliminal messaging/brain hack tool I've just stumbled upon online. Using images and colors and whatnot, you essentially reprogram your own brain, or as the site says, "When neurologists first began to measure the brain's response to stimuli, it was found that if light and sound stimuli were precisely timed to the electrical activity of the brain, brainwave patterns could actually be altered. In turn, the mental state of a person could reliably be changed. As an example, someone who is wide awake may start to feel relaxed and drowsy when given a stimulus corresponding to a relaxed brainwave pattern."
And while there's an abundance of testimonials and promises that it'll cure what ails ya, I don't see a whole lot of information about what it actually does. Kind of snake oily... Still, I want one.
Saturday 11 October 2008 at 6:07 pm
McCain was
booed by his own supporters last night, just south of here, as he asked them to please stop claiming that Obama is a terrorist.
It's times like these that I feel sorry for my GOP-supporting friends who are unfortunate enough to be represented by these tools. Yes. I actually feel pity, which I'm not typically want to do. Senator McCain was once able to boast of followers who held justifiable beliefs, in the epistemological sense, prior to the Palin factor. Now it seems the bulk of his following is made up of, well...
these people.
I can not adequately express the extent of my discomfort in knowing that, for lack of a better term, idiots with subadolescent reasoning skills who'd be better off as wards of the state are allowed in on the democratic process. In courting the Christian Conservatives through the enlistment of Sarah Palin, the McCain campaign has inadvertently attracted extremist evangelical rightwing wackos like white on a Klan rally, breaking down the already fragile walls of reason and loosing like so many termites a horde of self-righteous, low-functioning imbeciles upon the world. These aren't politically active individuals. These are people who couldn't name a candidate six months ago, but could tell you who won American Idol every season since the show's inception. They had no interest in voting before, and as such expended no effort or energy toward preparing themselves for the task.
And now that the task is nigh at hand, their proverbial hats are in. Like lemmings with the rest of us on leashes and choke collars, they run. Unless we're also sending wanna-be brain surgeons and rocket scientists straight to work after demonstrating a mere few months' worth of passing interest in their respective fields, we should not be inviting the same sort of thing from those who would seat would-be world leaders. I fear the future as it is with these people breeding, let alone voting, and a world run by the leaders of a scat-stained, torch-wielding, blind and angry mob is no place in which to live. The tyranny of the majority has never loomed so tyrannically in my lifetime.
Wednesday 01 October 2008 at 5:41 pm
In the month of October, breast cancer is recognized by survivors, family and friends of survivors and/or victims of the disease. In no manner is such recognition more controversial or noted than the infamous
Boobiethon. Every year, hot young amateurs with webcams (Oh yeah, I've just tripled my unique visit count.) from around the world show the goods to anyone willing to donate $50 to the cause, and aren't you just? Also of note, my writing partner MontiLee Stormer has provided them with content again and, as "MontiLee Stormer Nude" (Now that's quadrupled it.) is among the occasional recurring search strings that bring people to my blog, I imagine many of you will be rather willing to donate to this particular charitable cause.
LINK: 7th Annual Blogger Boobie-Thon
Wednesday 01 October 2008 at 4:13 pm
If you thought Gene Roddenbery's vision of the future, with its great big dials, flashing bulbs and reel-to-reel tape-powered computers was dated, have a look at these
French post cards published circa 1910, which took as their subject the many advanced technologies to which we would presumably have access in the far future year 2000 AD. You'll see somewhat accurate predictions of tanks and construction equipment alongside more laughable images of students wired into a central teaching machine and the flying horseless carriage. Ah, the elusive flying horseless carriage... a century later we still have yet to escape the lure of its futurist wiles.
