Saturday, May 10, 2008
ELFINTOME
want to look at some sweet visionary art? this website has links to TONS of different artists' sights from all over the world. and also lots of other links. exploooooore!
Thursday, May 8, 2008
YES!
Via Newscientist.com:
Humble fungi found in most back gardens could help clean up battlefields contaminated with depleted uranium.
At present, sites can be partial decontaminated by physically collecting and disposing of fragments from shells. However, radioactive particles and dust from explosions remain in the soil, preventing full reclamation.
Now, a research team in Scotland has established that common fungi can grow on and chemically lock away the offending uranium. As their hyphal filaments sprawled across fragments of depleted uranium, the tubules gradually became coated in a yellowy mineral....
See Related: Bill Hicks - Drugs and Evolution
Terence McKenna - Stoned Ape Theory of Evolution
Arthur Koestler
I am trying to study for a final about dissident politics in the 20th century, which is no doubt very interesting, but I am no doubt likely to fail...Regardless, I was doing a little research on a guy named Arthur Koestler who we had talked about, and I found this article he wrote in response to Huxley: Doors of Perception. The guy was interested in many other things besides politics, like telepathy/telekinesis/quantum mechanics/synchronicity, and stumbled upon psychedelics later in life after receiving a letter from T Leary which is in this article. He takes a nice stance at the end in my opinion, which is sort of in an Alan Watts way of things, like "if you've got the message, hang up the phone..." Just thought I'd throw it out there, good writing- I hope to check out some of his books, apparently they have served as inspiration for Sting and the Pat Methany Group.
"In Heaven and Hell, defending the mescalin ecstasy against the reproach of artificiality, Huxley, the most highly respected exponent of the cult, argues that `in one way or another, all our experiences are chemically conditioned'; and that the great mystics of the past also 'worked systematically to modify their Body chemistry ...starving themselves into low blond Bugar and a vitamin deficiency. They sang interminable psalms, thus increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the lungs and the bloodstream, or, if they were orientals, they did breathing exercises to accomplish the Same purpose.' There is, of course, a certain amount of truth in this an a purely physiological level, but the conclusions which Huxley draws, and the advice he tenders to modern man in search of a soul, are all the more distressing: 'Knowing as he does what are the chemical conditions of transcendental experience, the aspiring mystic should turn for technical help to the specialists in pharmacology, in bio-chemistry, in physiology and neurology ...'
I would like to answer this with a parable. In the beloved Austrian mountains of my school-days, it took us about five to six hours to climb a 7,000-ft. peak. Today, many of them can be reached in a few minutes by Gable-Gar, or ski-lift, or even by motorcar. Yet you still sec thousands of schoolboys, middle-aged couples and elderly men puffeng and panting up the steep path, groaning under the load of their knapsacks. When they arrive at the alpine refuge near the summet, streaming with sweat, they shout for their traditional reward -a Blass of shnapps and a plate of hot pea-soup. And then they look at the view-and then there is only a man and a mountain and a sky. My point is not the virtue of sweat and toil. My point is that, although the view is the Same, their vision is different from those who arrive by motorcar." -A. Koestler: Return Trip to Nirvana 1968
"In Heaven and Hell, defending the mescalin ecstasy against the reproach of artificiality, Huxley, the most highly respected exponent of the cult, argues that `in one way or another, all our experiences are chemically conditioned'; and that the great mystics of the past also 'worked systematically to modify their Body chemistry ...starving themselves into low blond Bugar and a vitamin deficiency. They sang interminable psalms, thus increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the lungs and the bloodstream, or, if they were orientals, they did breathing exercises to accomplish the Same purpose.' There is, of course, a certain amount of truth in this an a purely physiological level, but the conclusions which Huxley draws, and the advice he tenders to modern man in search of a soul, are all the more distressing: 'Knowing as he does what are the chemical conditions of transcendental experience, the aspiring mystic should turn for technical help to the specialists in pharmacology, in bio-chemistry, in physiology and neurology ...'
I would like to answer this with a parable. In the beloved Austrian mountains of my school-days, it took us about five to six hours to climb a 7,000-ft. peak. Today, many of them can be reached in a few minutes by Gable-Gar, or ski-lift, or even by motorcar. Yet you still sec thousands of schoolboys, middle-aged couples and elderly men puffeng and panting up the steep path, groaning under the load of their knapsacks. When they arrive at the alpine refuge near the summet, streaming with sweat, they shout for their traditional reward -a Blass of shnapps and a plate of hot pea-soup. And then they look at the view-and then there is only a man and a mountain and a sky. My point is not the virtue of sweat and toil. My point is that, although the view is the Same, their vision is different from those who arrive by motorcar." -A. Koestler: Return Trip to Nirvana 1968
Sexy OS
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'Humanity to others', or 'I am what I am because of who we all are'. The Ubuntu distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world
I'm going to give this a shot after I reformat....In light of the doomsday seed vault....maybe say goodbye to microsoft?
Thanks Andrew Vavrek, IT manager of Resonance Project
I was sort of out of the loop on how amazing open source can be...I almost got one that University of Cal Berkeley had designed, but this is much more what I am looking for. I think for anyone who is interested, Windows users in particular, you can download the file, burn it and then reformat...You could do it w/out reformatting too I'm sure, I'm just currently in the market.
The amount of open source software is pretty amazing and check out these open music websites
Opsound
Jamendo
I had no idea we were so on it :)
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Live @ 日本国
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Setlist: Waltz of the Wind>>Twinkle Twinkle
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Setlist: Waltz of the Wind>>Twinkle Twinkle
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Banksy Content
http://www.supertouchart.com/2008/05/03/londonstreet-lifeinside-the-cans-festival/#more-8381
Sorry im bad at linking
Sorry im bad at linking
Monday, May 5, 2008
Cool Geology
Impact crater off the coast of England in the North Sea. The asteroid was 200 to 500 meters (660 to 1700 feet) across and estimated to have impacted the Earth 60 to 65 million years ago. The crater is 3 kilometers (almost 2 miles) wide and 300 meters (almost 1000 feet) deep!!The color image is a 3D seismic image of the crater.
NIN: the slip
"as a thank you to our fans for your continued support, we are giving away the new nine inch nails album one hundred percent free, exclusively via nin.com.
the music is available in a variety of formats including high-quality MP3, FLAC or M4A lossless at CD quality and even higher-than-CD quality 24/96 WAVE. your link will include all options - all free. all downloads include a PDF with artwork and credits.
for those of you interested in physical products, fear not. we plan to make a version of this release available on CD and vinyl in july. details coming soon."
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Sunday, May 4, 2008
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