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POPSWALL E(volution) :) Miranda, a composer and computer scientist at the University of Plymouth in the UK, hopes that such collaborations between singing robots will one day help him to compose music that no human would ever come up with. "The robots develop their own musical culture. There are no pre-programmed musical rules." This is interesting. We begin to encounter evolution in different dimensions. This is a path for a new intelligent specie... if you haven't seen, i recommend WALL·E movie :)
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POPSUkraine Market Crashes With all the stocks markets around the world taking a hit, it does seem like Babel is falling, or course that could just be GW's babble.
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POPSSocial Science is not Science "Their desire to hold on to that illusion causes them to resist many sorts of new information which conflict with their ideas. That is very human, but it ain't science. Indeed, what goes on in the social sciences would make for a fascinating sociological study." I have long held the view that social sciences are profound bullhockey, if I may use a technical term. If you research the foundations of these "disciplines" you will find that they are all based in a materialist foundation and seek to confirm that foundation through the masterful manipulation of descriptive and inferential statistics. It is time we recognize that sociology and much of the psycho-pop babble we are subjected to is nothing more than materialist propaganda.
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POPSYou Can't Fool All of the People All of the Time Instead of Drill! Drill! Drill!, their motto could be: Kill! Kill! Kill! In response to skyrocketing gas prices, liberals say, practically in unison, "We can't drill our way out of this crisis." What does it mean? Finding more oil isn't going to increase the supply of oil? It is the typical Democratic strategy to babble meaningless slogans, as if they have a plan. Their plan is: the permanent twilight of the human race. Liberals complain that -- as Obama put it -- there's "no way that allowing offshore drilling would lower gas prices right now. At best you are looking at five years or more down the road."This is as opposed to airplanes that run on woodchips, which should be up and running any moment now. Clinton proposed a 26-cent tax on gas. John Kerry said it should be 50 cents. Gore endorsed the Malthusian proposal of Paul and Anne Ehrlich in "The Population Explosion" hat taxes gas gradually
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POPSAbout the London Review of Breakfasts The "full English" refers not to our technological, cultural or military achievements. No: we live in a country where the 'full us' proudly refers to the first meal of the day. And yet here, in that country's capital, there seem to be (far) more bad breakfast opportunities than good ones: Cafe Euro Med in Kentish Town, the Bishop in East Dulwich and Mac Bar in Camden, to name but a few recent crying failures. And so we bring you a new champion: the London Review of Breakfasts. Because we've had enoeuf. Malcolm Eggs, Site Editor August 2005
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POPSAesop: DE RANA ET VULPE The frog said goodbye to her swamp and adopted a new mode of life, and quite puffed up with pride she went into the forest. Girded round with the beasts' wreaths of honor, she professed publicly the art of medicine, declaring which herbs which are useful in curing the body's diseases, shouting that she was more worthy of honor than Galen or Hippocrates. The gullible animal kingdom easily put their trust in the frog - except only for the fox, who laughed at the boasting frog. "You witless and giddy creature! Why do you babble such foolish things? Why do you assume this worthy art which you know absolutely nothing about? Sickly green and pale - look at your own lips: why don't you just go home and cure yourself, doctor! And then you might come back to us, when we may perhaps expect something more useful from you." The frog said nothing in response, but groaned with quiet sighs, and all the woods resounded with the laughter of the beasts.
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POPSPhotos of American churches These are kind of funny -- particularly the odd and whimsical titles -- but also beautiful. There are several pages of these photos.
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POPSThe art of speaking >>The Art of Speaking: “There is a special circle in hell for those who use laser pointers,” this and other advice from a master speaker. MIT Professor Harry Winston every year gives a famed lecture on "The Art of Speaking". Cal Newport attended the lecture this year and posted the notes.<<
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POPSWhen the Eyes Play Tricks on the Ears the implication is that it's possible that perception involves more interaction between the sensory pathways than we expected and, because they are happening in low-level areas, they may be more automatic,"
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POPSIt's called Free Speech, it is not "selective free speech"! This tit for tat game playing on what is our constitutional rights is ludicrous and never should have been started in the first place! While what has been said is reprehensible, they are giving Limbaugh more credibility than he is deserving, he means nothing, he is just one of many of the minions whose purpose in life is to divide and perpetuate hate, BUT IT IS HIS RIGHT! It is for us to decide to listen, they can babble all they want, the sheep will follow the noise, the wise will make their own!
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POPSWAR WITH IRAN Instead of going to war with Iran. Lets go to war with Fox news. It will be over in seconds. And we wont have to listen to their babble. I will miss the Simpsons though.
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POPSChurches ad hoc: a divine comedy - A Photo Essay Edited 8/6/07 - see comments below A collection of photos taken by Herman Krieger. Churches ad hoc was introduced on the Internet in 1996. Since then, references to it have appeared in a large number of Christian, as well as atheist, web sites. Each group seems to find a reflection of their own views in the captioned photographs. Excerpts from the series have appeared in places as diverse as the Internet edition of The New York Times, a Methodist church calendar, a rock band cassette cover, the religion pages of the Stockholm Svenska Dagbladet newspaper, and a Cornell Law School poster for a national conference on The Consitution and Religion: Theory and Practice. I take photographs to amuse myself as well as the occasional spectator. Exhibiting photographs for mutual pleasure is similar to a comedian telling jokes to an appreciative audience. But comedy is more serious than photography.
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POPSChildren Are To Be Seen And Not Heard: Airline Edition This is ridiculous. I hope the family sues and wins. Toddlers babble...that's how they learn to talk like "grown folks". I am getting so tired of hearing stories like this (sometime ago, another family got kicked off a flight because a toddler hit his mother while she was trying to calm him down while having a tantrum and the "attendant" had the child kicked off for assaulting "a passenger"--the aforementioned mother!). Adding insult to injury, note that both mentioned incidents happened after long ass delays of the flights. I realize that since 9/11 flight attendants think they are the guardians of the skies, but a lot of these incidents are leaning towards completely f*king stupid!
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POPSMinky Viagra? Getting your sexy back does tend to make you babble, but Pfizer marketing clandestine sex language for Viagra? LOL.
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POPSLexicon of Auto shapes Ever wondered where the "tumblehome" is located on your car? What about the "plenum"? Here's a lexicon so that you won't get lost!
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