These are some collection of informative pages i've read.
Line-crossing ceremony . It showcases the predator nature of male human animals, and a bound-forming ritual that prepares it. Generally known as Hazing.
A look at gangs. Crips
Look at the historical cases of scam: Scam
I was eating Jiaozi (Chinese dumplings), and we ususally eat it with soy source and vinegar. (and garlic) The vinegar we have, tastes rather extremely diluted. Me and my brother thought we'll just add more, but adding more vinegar dilutes the soy source so much so that it is not a solution.
This vinegar is sharply different from what we used to in Taiwan. In Taiwan, a drop of vinegar is like a drop of lemon juice, extremely sour. While the US vinegar (bought in a local supermarket at Safeway (Mountain View, California)), are very diluted that one can eat a teaspoonful without shivering.
We noticed that there's a 10% acidity printed on the label of the vinegar. We wondered what is the acidity percentage in the vinegars we had in Taiwan.
http://www.michaelberube.com/index.php/weblog/comments/963/. a essay on Academic Freedom, by Michael Bérubé (teacher of literature and cultural studies at Penn State University)
J M Coetzee (b1940) Nobel Laureate in literature in 2003. Among his publications is The Lives of Animals. J._M._Coetzee
Fashion: Ruff_(clothing)
The Political Brain, By Michael Shermer, 2006-06-26. http://www.sciam.com/print_version.cfm?articleID=000CE155-1061-1493-906183414B7F0162
A recent brain-imaging study shows that our political predilections are a product of unconscious confirmation bias.
The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion ... draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises ... in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate. —Francis Bacon, Novum Organum, 1620
“Mob Rule: In departmental disputes, professors can act just like animals” By JOHN GRAVOIS, 2006-04: http://chronicle.com/free/v52/i32/32a01001.htm
Some football issues.
Pirates.
English accents around the world
Stephen King stuff i've read in the late 1980s.
2005-04-11 Novel fantasy:
ANNALS OF PSYCHOLOGY , THE NAKED FACE, Can you read people’s thoughts just by looking at them? , BY MALCOLM GLADWELL , August 5, 2002. http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_08_05_a_face.htm
2006-03
Links:
Links: Greek
• Link: Funny mechanical assembly line. Done in animated gif. “Blue Ball Machine”, 2005-10, by “Earthbounder”. http://blueballfixed.ytmnd.com/
• Theodore Kaczynski, author of Industrial Society and its Future has published a allegory Ship Of Fools (1999). Now there is a play by Gardar Eide Einarsson based on it. See http://www.swissinstitute.net/News/2006/shipoffools.htm. The Ship Of Fools can be found at: http://www.chicagoabc.org/ship_of_fools.htm.
• Maunsell Sea Forts Maunsell Sea Forts photo here: http://www.undergroundkent.co.uk/maunsell_towers.htm
• Paper planes. Designed by John Collins. Flash application by C Lowe. http://www.lowe-tech.com/portfolio/paperplanes.asp
A journalist's right to protect their confidential sources isn't absolute. It goes without saying that any failure to honor a promise of confidentiality would make it harder in the future to persuade a frightened government employee to talk about corruption in high places or a worried worker to reveal corporate crimes. Nevertheless, protecting the identities of confidential sources is a journalistic right that should be recognised by the courts, but only when it protects genuine whistle-blowers, not when it shields government or corporate wrongdoing. Thus, if someone breaks the law by giving information to a journalist, or reveals to a journalist that they have committed a crime, the journalist has to be able to argue that in that specific case, protecting the source's identity serves the public more than bringing the source to trial.
the above is excerpted from: A New Sense of Justice, by John Horvath, 2006-01-23. http://www.heise.de/tp/r4/artikel/21/21827/1.html
Milk Milk Processed cheese http://www.inventionandtechnology.com/xml/2001/1/it_2001_1_dept_objlessons.xml
• Do you know how's the internet connected across continents? From China to Europe to North America to Australia? It it by satellite? No, it is by cables laid under the ocean. How do you lay cables thousands of kilometers on the ocean floor? Y'known, oceans are some tens of kilometers deep. And, how you gonna maintain it? Won't sharks eat it off and germs rot it out? Well, that is one showcase of the technology of human animals of today. See bottom of: http://www.geog.ucl.ac.uk/casa/martin/atlas/cables.html for world undersea internet cable maps.
• Human Walking Motion http://www.biomotionlab.ca/Demos/BMLwalker.html
Link: Infibulation Explained, by Robert Pinkerton, ~1999: http://www.lockmeup.com/cb/facts/pinkerton-infibulation.html
• (Mark Twain's work) Letters from the Earth
knowledge fantasy: So You Think You Can Dance RadioShack Sniper
IQ: IQ Monty Hall problem Marilyn Vos Savant
I learned from artist Trevor Brown about Jeff Noon's novel Automated Alice. amazon. Highly recommended by Trevor Brown. For more about Jeff Noon, see: Jeff Noon
• A map of world's telephones throughout 1990s: http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/phones.htm
• A map of human animals's killings caused by and for human animals: http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/war-1950.htm
knowledge fantasy: Fart UN Human Development Index Hurricane Roma people (gypsies) Opal Crystal
knowledge fantasy: Montreal Harbin Caloric restriction
Knowledge fantasy: We Are The World Cocoa_(API) Crossword
Herd Polyamory
Charles Bukowski Tank
Hearst Castle MacApp
Hurricane Katrina Henry Darger
Bonsai Kitten
Comprachicos
http://science.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-power.htm/printable
Raymond Smullyan Three Gorges Dam Plasma lamp Plasma Logan's_Run
Culture jamming
Igloo
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/printts20041231.shtml Thomas Sowell on gay marriage
Peak oil with the massive consumption of oil — a finite resource — when will it be used up?
• Bobby Fisher, a nutcase. But i applaud his courage for being a non-conformist, and his safe arrival in Iceland. Bobby Fischer
Deaf Pinyin Nihilism
Bhopal disaster Robot
• “Democracies Do Not Make War on One Another. ...or Do They?” (2003) by Matthew White. http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/demowar.htm
Knowledge representation Mobile phone Nihilism
Pipe organ Feral children Wal Mart Fuel cell
Cell phone Twin Cloning
http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-5/icst-5.html Silicon Valley
Bioluminance
Area 51 Roswell UFO incident Felicity Roswell (TV series) Athina Roussel
JFIF
• the word Eurasian reminds me of beautiful exotic women. Eurasian
• Grandeur. Duomo di Milano
• there are too many human animals. What is the most efficient and ecological way to dispose them? incinerate them? dump to sea? feed it to dogs? i have come to tentative conclusion that the best way to dispose corpse is feed it to carnivores. When i'm dead, that's what i want. Theoretically i can't possibly care. Burial at sea
2004-12
what exactly are Jews? They don't seems black, or blonde, or Oriental, or particularlly Middle East looking people with turbans etc. It turns out, it's less of a race, but ethnicity. See Jew.
Do you believe in God? If you do and he doesn't exist, nothing happens. If you don't and he exists, you are damned! Thus, you better believe. Thus goes Pascal's Wager.
Pascal's Wager
and did you know that one can prove by mathematical logic that being omniscient has obvious disadvantages?
Omniscient
Colin Powell (b1937). Commendable man. Colin Powell
Condoleezza Rice (b1954). Condoleezza Rice
• we know more about the surace of the moon than the surface of deep oceans Challenger Deep
• check out this DVD: The Blue Planet - Seas of Life, absolutely fascinating. But it at amazon. Creatures of unknown faces lie in the abyss.
US should put its research money in oceanography instead of Mars.
In 1963, a US nuclear submarine is sunk 350 km east of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA. (that's roughly north-east of New York.) USS Thresher (SSN-593)
In 1968, a US nuclear submarine is sunk 650 km southwest of the Azores. (that's in the ballpark of middle of Atlantic Ocean, roughly the latitude of New York.) USS Scorpion (SSN-589)
These are not trivial sinkings. They are nuclear accidents.
Non-USA GPS; Hooray!: GALILEO positioning system
some of my countrymen want to dictate the world, and want to do it in the guise of justice. Fuck them.
today's encyclopedia rapture: U.S. Electoral College 401k
on brain-washing. (i have some expertise in brain-washing) Autosuggestion
wikipedia fantasy today: Better Business Bureau
I visited the Natinoal Mall of Washington DC, USA today. I took the metro. It was great. I always liked to visit subways in a new city. It kinda gives me a hint of the technological level and social scape of the place. I was on foot for 5 hours. Walking around the Washington Mall.
One thing interesting is that the art and science associated Smithsonian Institution is actually a US federal government institution. It was a gift of some random joe James Smithson (1765-1829) to the US.
• The tourists attractive National Mall in Washington DC. National Mall • James Smithson, the cause of the US Federal Goverment's Smithsonian Institution James Smithson Smithsonian Institution • National Air and Space Museum, part of the Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum Washington Monument, the ostensible obelisk in the US Capitol. Washington Monument A list of towers in the world. List of towers The subway in Washington DC, USA. Washington Metro P. J. O'Rourke Soap Shampoo Detergent Catamaran hydrofoil hovercraft dirigible Aircraft carrier GPS Caloric restriction The Little Prince
Karen Armstrong, author of A History of God amazon, a derring-do.
Black Death Attack on Pearl Harbor Battle of Midway