Stalking Venus

Whenever I’m feeling a bit down and need a lift at work, I have two specific videos I use as therapy. The one is called funnycats and is a compilation of loads of cats doing stupid or cute stuff. The other is this (definitely only watch it with sound)… Holy Ghost VS Andy C & [...]

OMFG! Yes, seriously… Michael Jackson has decided to ride the peace train along with Cat Abdullah Ibrahim Stevens and has placed his life and eternal soul in the hands of Allah. He got to know details about the Islamic beliefs through some music friends and became interested enough to read some books one of them [...]

Very interesting post over at Kevin Kelly’s blog. It basically sums up much of the thought surrounding the idea of a ‘global megasupercomputer’ that is theorised to be developing naturally as a result of all the computers and processors becoming attached to each other via the internet. From the article: “My hypothesis is this: The [...]

… imagine a condition where the strongest species has grown in such numbers as to utilise all available space in their habitat (to whit: humanity, early 21st century). Nothing can enforce a natural disaster, so evolutionary theory holds that a set of traits needs to develop to allow the creature (in our case, us) to survive under these conditions. This being the case,and intelligence having proved itself as the strongest survival trait to date, evolutionary theory dictates that differentiation of intelligence is the most likely next evolutionary ‘step’.

A lot of Zen-type philosophy (an unsuitable word, but one I’ll use for now) can seem like egotistical posturing by self-absorbed language-wankers – and to be honest, a lot of it is. The annoying thing with Zen kōans – the often nonsensical riddles and word plays of that school of being – is that they directly contravene the structured rules of logic that we require so that our perception of reality doesn’t disintegrate. This means that we have an instant aversion to them that ranges from the mildly amused, to the outraged.

There once lived two nuns. One of them was known as Sister Mathematical (SM), and the other one was known as Sister Logical (SL). One evening they were out for a walk. It was getting dark and they were still far from the convent. Sister Logical turned to her companion and said, “Have you noticed [...]

On my way to work this morning, two things happened: A car (or strictly speaking, a person in a car) cut out into the oncoming lane of traffic in order to do a quick turn shortcut that would have placed him in his office 0.5 minutes sooner than if he’d just waited like everyone else, [...]

A little boy goes to his dad and asks, “What is politics?” Dad says, “Well son, let me try to explain it this way: I’m the breadwinner of the family, so let’s call me capitalism. Your Mom, she’s the administrator of the money, so we’ll call her the Government. We’re here to take care of [...]