Thursday, September 16, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Duke Nukem Forever coming out in 2011 - really this time.
I'll believe it when I see it.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Sunday, September 12, 2010
We can torture you with immunity, but you have to pay if you torture us
Excerpt:
So, to recap: the U.S. creates a worldwide regime of torture,
disappearances and lawless imprisonment. Then, the Bush administration,
the Obama administration, and the American federal judiciary all
collaborate to shield the guilty parties from all accountability (Look Forward, Not Backward!),
and worse, to ensure that not a single victim can even access American
courts to obtain a ruling as to the legality of what was done to them,
let alone receive compensation for their suffering, even while
recognizing that many of the victims were completely innocent and even
though other countries have provided the victims with compensation for their much more minor role in what happened. Our courts even ensure that Blackwater guards are shielded from prosecution for the cold-blooded murder of Iraqi citizens.
But we invade, occupy and destroy Iraq -- while severely abusing, torturing
and killing their citizens -- and then demand, as a condition for our
allowing the end of crippling sanctions, that they fork over hundreds of
millions of dollars in compensation to American torture victims, even
though it all happened 20 years ago, under an Iraqi regime that no
longer even exists. They hate us for our Freedoms.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
10 Reasons You're Not Losing Weight
(read the link for the full article)
You Don't Have Enough Muscle
Genetics
You're getting older
Your body can't keep up
Your medicine cabinet is to blame
You underestimate portions and calories
You eat mindlessly or when distracted
You deprive yourself
You're usually good, but ...
You overestimate your calorie burn
Of course Jimi Hendrix was a big science fiction fan
Excerpt from above link:
Night of Light was a science fiction book that in 1966 inspired
Jimi to eventually write 'Purple Haze.' Farmer's story had to do with
sunspots having a disorienting effect on a distant planet's population.
Jimi wrote pages and pages of lyrics for 'Purple Haze,' originally an
epic tale of the history of warfare for the control of the planet
Neptune.
Friday, September 10, 2010
Monsters coming soon
Check out the trailer.
This looks to be something like a blend of District 9 and Cloverfield and ...
Caprica returns to TV
The 2nd half of season one will begin Oct 5th instead of in January 2011.
No news yet on a season 2 or not.
Wind Farms and Health in Canada
A report from Dr. Arlene King, Ontario's Chief Medical Officer of Health, states that there is not any direct causal link between wind turbine noise and adverse health effects.
An Angus Reid survey has shown that most people support renewable energy generation, including wind power. Most opposition comes from people in the locations where wind farms are to be built. I occasionally see posts about negative health effects, but they seem to be unsubstantiated claims without proof. You would think that, with all the wind farms around the world, especially in Europe and Britain, where they have had large wind farms for many years, if there were adverse health effects, then they would have come to light by now.
From what I have seen and read about the dangers of different kinds of energy production, I'll take wind power over nuclear or coal power generation any day.
Anyway, read the link at the top for more information on the health report.
Here is a list of Wind Farms in Canada.
Calling "Bullshit" on the Wind Power Witch Hunters
The Disaffected Lib gets into more detail about the anti-Wind Power people.
All the FRESH MEAT posts on Wind Power
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Doctor's determine a way to reduce risks from ovarian cancer
Excerpt:
Removing fallopian tubes as part of hysterectomies and tubal
litigations would “have an immediate impact on saving lives,” said
Dianne Miller, a gynecologic oncologist with the Ovarian Cancer Research
Program of the B.C. Cancer Agency.
That is because,
paradoxically, the most deadly form of ovarian cancer originates in the
fallopian tubes – where eggs travel from the ovaries to the womb – not
the ovaries per se, she said.
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Warning: LSD turns hot dogs into screaming trolls with 7 children!
Watch the video
Far out.
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Cary Grant loved LSD
"I learned many things in the quiet of that room ... I
learned that everything is or becomes its own opposite ... You know, we are all
unconsciously holding our anus. In one LSD dream ... I imagined myself as a
giant penis launching off from earth like a spaceship." - Cary Grant
The secret history of psychedelic psychiatry
ON August 15th, 1951, an outbreak of hallucinations, panic attacks and psychotic episodes swept through the town of Saint-Pont-Esprit
in southern France, hospitalizing dozens of its inhabitants and leaving
five people dead. Doctors concluded that the incident occurred because
bread in one of the town's bakeries had been contaminated with ergot, a
toxic fungus that grows on rye. But according to investigative
journalist Hank Albarelli, the
CIA had actually dosed the bread with d-lysergic acid diethylamide-25
(LSD), an extremely potent hallucinogenic drug derived from ergot, as
part of a mind control research project.
Although we may never learn the truth behind the
events at Saint-Pont-Esprit, it is now well known that the United States
Army experimented with LSD on willing and unwilling military personnel
and civilians. Less well known is the work of a group of psychiatrists
working in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, who pioneered the use
of LSD as a treatment for alcoholism, and claimed that it produced
unprecedented rates of recovery. Their findings were soon brushed under
the carpet, however, and research into the potential therapeutic effects
of psychedelics was abruptly halted in the late 1960s, leaving a
promising avenue of research unexplored for some 40 years.
...
Continue reading at the link above.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Oxford English Dictionary may soon only be available online
...
Publisher Oxford University Press said Sunday that burgeoning demand
for the dictionary's online version has far outpaced demand for the
printed versions. By the time the lexicographers behind the dictionary
finished revising and updating the latest edition — a gargantuan task
that will take many more years — publishers are doubtful there will
still be a market for the printed form.
The online Oxford English
Dictionary now gets 2 million hits a month from subscribers. The current
printed edition — a hefty 20-volume, $1,165 set published in 1989 — has
sold about 30,000 sets in total.
...
Intel buys McAfee - will introduce security built into chips
...
the combination of Intel chips and McAfee security
will result in automated defences that should make it easier for
consumers and businesses to manage the information security burden.
Processor-based security is more efficient than software because it
doesn’t drag down machine performance or productivity.
Direct integration into the hardware also makes it much harder to
attack. The fact that it works right out of the box means it doesn’t
rely on unreliable humans for installation and maintenance.
...
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Conditions for women in Afghanistan worse now, but media spins the opposite
Excerpt:
"I heard Aisha's story from her a few weeks before the
image of her face was displayed all over the world", Ann Jones, author
of Kabul in Winter, wrote in the August 12 Nation. "She told me that her
father-in-law caught up with her after she ran away, and took a knife
to her on his own; village elders later approved, but the Taliban didn't
figure at all in this account."
The Time story, however,
attributes Aisha's mutilation to a husband under orders of a Talib
commander, thereby transforming a personal story, similar to those of
countless women in Afghanistan today, into a portent of things to come
for all women if the Taliban return to power ...
Afghan feminist
Malalai Joya : "During the Taliban’s regime such atrocities weren’t as
rife as it is now and the graph is hiking each day."
The article at RAWA cites a March 11, 2010 CIA document on spinning the war, published by WikiLeaks : CIA Red Cell
"Afghan
women could serve as ideal messengers in humanizing the ISAF role in
combating the Taliban because of women’s ability to speak personally and
credibly about their experiences under the Taliban, their aspirations
for the future, and their fears of a Taliban victory. Outreach
initiatives that create media opportunities for Afghan women to share
their stories with French, German, and other European women could help
to overcome pervasive skepticism among women in Western Europe toward
the ISAF mission.Media events that feature testimonials by Afghan
women would probably be most effective if broadcast on programs that
have large and disproportionately female audiences.
What ancient statues really looked like when they were made
A recent touring exhibition is turning a long held common belief on its
head. The common perception is that the great statues and buildings of
ancient Greece and Rome were all pure unpainted stone or green tarnished
bronze, but researchers have been arguing that this may not been what
these classic monuments really looked like back in the era of their
creation. That, in fact, these statue's were quite alive and vibrant,
full of color.
...
Psychedelic Drugs Show Promise as Anti-Depressants: Scientific American
...
The August 18 review, by psychiatrist Franz Vollenweider and
neuropsychologist Michael Kometer of the University Hospital of
Psychiatry in Zurich, proposes that various psychedelics' interaction
with the receptors for the neurotransmitter serotonin
may prove key to understanding their beneficial—and
mind-bending—effects. "Psychedelics activate neuronal networks and the
glutamate system that are implicated in the regulation of emotion,"
Vollenweider says, noting that their hallucinogenic effects can be
impeded by blocking specific serotonin receptors in the brain (known as
5-HT2A). Psychedelics typically boost serotonin and may also boost the
release of glutamate, according to the review authors, another
neurotransmitter that has been linked to short-term but long-lasting
brain functions such as learning and memory. More glutamate also has an
impact on synapses. "This might result in an increased number and
function of spine synapses in the prefrontal cortex," Vollenweider says.
...
The most isolated man on the planet
Now, here's a guy who enjoys his privacy.
New studies into hallucinogens and mental health
LSD and ketamine, two powerful hallucinogens, are also potential cures
for depression, OCD, and anxiety. Two studies published this week, in Science and Nature, confirm that hallucinogenic drugs stimulate healthy brain activity, even promoting the growth of neurons.
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