Of course there’s a measure of beast’s blood in anyone who aspires to maintain a place in the world, anyone who lacks that ultimate decency to remove themselves from the herd either by violence to themselves or total capitulation to their dread. It’s simply a matter of degree. – Thomas Ligotti in My Work Is [...]
Leave it to Canadian reporting to sum up the entirety of an exasperating issue fraught with futile appeals to logic in a single expository sentence: In 1976, then U.S. president Gerald Ford ordered a national vaccination campaign in response to an outbreak of swine flu at a military base in New Jersey. In the end, [...]
Alex Trochut is an impressive artist – but don’t take my word for it… go to his site and drool over the exceedingly-slick typographical arrangements for yourself.
Organized stacks of paper which have accumulated over the last five months, sipping from a fifth of whiskey left over from the metal show and wandering recidivist neighborhoods last night. (What were those undercovers doing with walkie-talkies, redirecting foot traffic? Is that how it goes down?) Still have to face Monday at work, still have [...]
George Orwell’s Big Brother represents the totalitarian rule of the party: a figure of dubious veracity imbued with absolute authority and control whose omniscient watch over its subjects is permanent and unquestionable. Surveillance underpins the efforts of any totalitarian state – the power of an authority is limited to the information upon which it may [...]
Let’s vivisect a live specimen over at USAToday.com to get a feel for the anatomy of a news article… Nearly one in 10 children and teens who play video games show behavioral signs that may indicate addiction, a new study reports. The study found 8.5% of those who played had at least six of 11 [...]
following the events of the technological singularity, humankind found itself presented with an ever-growing array of technological gifts from a god-like artificial intelligence… … the first gifts were received graciously – agricultural breakthroughs and genetic therapies revolutionized public health … in time, humanity became so accustomed to accepting the enlightened gifts of their apotheocized creation [...]
fundiemental Multiple pronunciations: \fun-DEE-men-tal\, \fun-DIE-men-tal\, \fun-dee-MEN-tal\, \fun-DEE-mon-tal\, noun Definition: Any follower of a religious sect who professes significant faith in the teachings of his or her religious sect but whose actions fail to coincide with the core doctrines of the religious sect and, often, the prevailing inclinations of human beings to avoid injury and prevarication. [...]
The pioneering idea-shapers at Fox News long ago stumbled upon a very sly phrasing which effectively allowed their commentators to interject personal opinion into dialogue, as evinced in this wittily-composed clip from the Fox News exposé OutFoxed: Invoking the same anonymous “people”, Obama has taken a lesson in persuasive rhetoric: Often he plays Aunt Sally [...]
Still awake – thinking about shutting down is about as close as I will get to sleep for another twenty hours. About two hundred and fifty pages left to The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – an excellent book, though I wonder whether it will ever reveal the world beyond its solipsist well’s subterranean darkness and ephemeral [...]
