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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brevity, over-connectedness, emotionally starving for attention, dragging themselves through virtual communities at 3 am, surrounded by stale pizza and neglected dreams, looking for angry meaning, any meaning, same hat wearing hipsters burning for shared and skeptical approval from the holographic projected dynamo in the technology of the era, who weak connections and recession wounded and directionless, sat up, micro-conversing in the supernatural darkness of Wi-Fi-enabled cafes, floating across the tops of cities...
Posted on July 14, 2010 via Something Changed. with 27 notes ()
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San Francisco
August 28, 1963
To whom it may concern:
Self deciphers this correspondence thus: the vision of ministering angels my fellow man and woman first wholly glimpsed while the Curandero gently crooned human in Ayahuasca trance-state 1960 was prophetic of transfiguration of self consciousness from homeless mind sensation of eternal fright to incarnate body feeling present bliss now actualized 1963.
Old love, as ever
Allen Ginsberg
Posted on June 21, 2010 via au-délà de la réalité with 4 notes ()
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Bring the Oil Disaster to Your Doorstep
Posted on June 4, 2010 ()
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How to Get Lost in the Woods by Finding the Way
(via ethnobot)
Posted on May 20, 2010 via The shallow end ()
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Pass the Cigars: A Computer Gives Birth to a Living Being
We welcome Jackson Simperly into our LiveBlog to ask questions about today’s most exciting breaking news.
Q: What’s the difference between Artificial Life and Real Life?
A: Nothing.
Q: Wow.
A: Yes.
After a fifteen year struggle, Scientists at the J. Craig Vetner Institute have successfully become god. As Christians across the world begin squirming, so too does the catchy-named Mycoplasma mycoides JCVI-syn1.0, the world’s first self-replicating synthetic bacterial cell.
Q: Does this mean a computer had babies?
A: Yes and it has no need to carry an annoying tote or an off-road stroller.
Q: And the computer’s babies can have babies.
A: Yes.
Q: Wow.
A: Yes.
The successful experiment is proof that a genome designed with a computer and then created inside a laboratory with chemicals can then be injected into an empty cell and essentially “booted” into existence. Apparently, Nietzsche was wrong.Let’s listen in on Dr. Clyde Hutchins, one of the scientists involved in the experiment:
“To me the most remarkable thing about our synthetic cell is that its genome was designed in the computer and brought to life through chemical synthesis, without using any pieces of natural DNA.”
Q: What do the Christians think?
A: The Pope is working on a list of new sins.
Q: Thank you for your time.
A: That is not a question.
(Jackson Simperly works as an unemployed in Wheeling, West Virginia.)
Full press release at JCVI: here.Posted on May 20, 2010 with 1 note ()
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Janelle Monae is a curlyanimal shooting energy out into the universe all-ways everywhere once-ly in waves.
Janelle Monae - Tightrope
Live on Letterman. Unreal performance.
Posted on May 20, 2010 via Chewable Vitamins | Los Angeles Music Blog ()
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Potato powered Universal Connection Device
Posted on May 20, 2010 ()
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Hermaphroditic Worm Diet = Longer, Stronger Memory
Yes, as strange as it sounds, Scientists have placed the legendary hermaphrodite worm C. Elegans on a calorie restricted diet and they’ve discovered that they maintain their memory longer into old age.
C ELEGANS
Testing worm memory isn’t as difficult as it sounds. The researches simply place a drop of chemical butanone into the drink and then measure the amount of time it takes for the worms to find it. Those who have learned the route to the pub previously will find it faster and those who have a restricted diet remember it longer than their fellow fatties.
CHOW TIME
If looking good on the beach isn’t enough of a motivation to slim down, just keep our friends the hermaphrodite worms in mind and that should do the trick.
Check the quick and clean article here
and the full research paper here.
Posted on May 19, 2010 ()
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When the Universe Gives, You Don’t Always Take
Posted on May 19, 2010 ()
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R. Buckminster Fuller on Why We're Screwed (c. 1969)
R. Buckminster Fuller on fossil fuels
“…can make all of humanity successful through science’s world-engulfing industrial evolution provided that we are not so foolish as to continue to exhaust in a split second of astronomical history the orderly energy savings of billions of years’ energy conservation…
Posted on May 19, 2010 via fuck yeah Bucky with 1 note ()
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