Ragged Trousered Philosopher. I met god the other day.
I know what you're thinking. How the hell did you know it was god? Well, I'll explain as we go along, but basically he convinced me by having all, and I do mean ALL, the answers. Every question I flung at him he batted back with a plausible and satisfactory answer. In the end, it was easier to accept that he was god than otherwise. Which is odd, because I'm still an atheist and we even agree on that! It all started on the 8.20 back from Paddington.
What did he look like? Well not what you might have expected that's for sure. 'Anyone sitting here? ' 'Help yourself' I replied. Sits down, relaxes, I ignore and back to the correspondence on genetically modified crops entering the food chain... Train pulls out and a few minutes later he speaks. 'Can I ask you a question? ' 'Why don't you believe in god? ' The Bastard! I love this kind of conversation and can rabbit on for hours about the nonsense of theist beliefs. 5 Reasons The Future Will Be Ruled By B.S. The Future Will Turn Us All Into Lars Ulrich I picked the example with the ebooks earlier for a reason.
As I mention every chance I get, I have a book on store shelves, a novel about monsters and dongs. It's in paperback now at the reasonable price of $10 or so. It took me five years to write it. But let's face it: If you want a digital copy of it for free, you can get it. Also, the binding glue causes leukemia. This is the basis of that huge fight between Amazon.com and the largest book publisher about ebook prices. Meanwhile me, my family, the bank what owns my mortgage and car loan, the IRS, the grocery store where I buy my food, all are hoping the same thing -- that you won't notice that free copies of my book are floating all around you. That's what ACTA is about. "Avast, ye big blue cockbite! " And for what?
Talks. Papers. Quiet Babylon - Cyborgs, architects, and our weird broken future. - Part 40. Sunday March 13, 2011 The interesting thing about cities (not city-states) is that while they are clearly entities, they do not have borders.
They bleed and blur around the edges. It’s very easy to come and go. It’s very easy to move there or to move away. photo credit: Thomas Hawk In a political context where every now and then people like to trumpet post-national politics with a rise in urban power to match the drop in state power, this is very interesting. You can see it in a tour of the nation state that is a continent. Photo credit: Akira ASKR The result is that at the same time that cities are growing in power and making independent deals with other cities (there’s a lot of that around the Great Lakes region) that they have a population that’s shifting and amorphous. In some ways this opens up a lot of exciting possibilities but in other ways it weakens civic engagement.
Cities. Patterns In The Void › DIY Transhumanist Biohacker. Lepht Anonym speaking on Cybernetics For The Masses A DIY biohacker in England, Lepht Anonym, has been experimenting in self-surgury in their (I use ‘they’ in the singular sense, as I have noted that they use gender neutral pronouns in reference to themself on their blog ) own kitchen.
Anonym has successfully implanted small metal plates, made of neodymium and encapsulated in gold and silicon, in nine of their ten fingers, in order to sense electromagnetic currents. They give recommendations on bioproofing materials, used to encase the implants to prevent chemical reactions like rusting from occurring subcutaneously, advocating the use of a silicon gel, Sugru, but stating that hot-gun glue works well, too. Lepht’s current project is based on Sensebridge’s Northpaw project , a wearable device that provides vibration to give information on the direction of Earth’s magnetic north.