I hear whispering… odd. Channel: Soc. Med.Sender:Amor CavanSubject: true love comes only once in a lifetime…Triage Eval: SpamPrerog: Immed. Reply hi, how are u? is it true …smokers are more fun? what’s your favorite brands? candy cigs? …lol ,,,don’t you know, those can cause type2 diabetes?! I’ve been asking everyone, the best place to get [...]
Smoke:MeetOutsideKillEveryone – Grand Boohbah XVI First I distract myself by intentionally thinking about something else. Secondly, and here comes the irony, my mind starts an unconscious monitoring process to check if I’m still thinking about the thing I’m not supposed to be thinking about – you know, to check if the conscious process is working [...]
A strong propaganda media presence is necessary for the perpetuation of your regime political party – lest your subjects forget whom to alternately fear and worship. If your regime happens to operate within a plutocratic semblance of a republic democracy, the next best thing to broadcasting your superiority will be denigrating your opposition. Where your [...]
Some would say it’s been a while since we had a proper holy war (the kind of conflict that pits believer against believer in a race to see who can be martyred first) – though it seems that others may disagree: the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East are jihad or a crusade. If there [...]
Update: Drones killing people attending the funerals of people killed by drones. “Three missiles were fired by drones as people were dispersing after offering funeral prayers for Niazi Wali,” the official said, referring to a militant commander killed in an earlier drone attack. – Dozens dead in US drone strike at BBC News On Sept. [...]
The regions of the brain that become active during mind wandering belong to two important networks. One is known as the executive control system. Located mainly in the front of the brain, these regions exert a top-down influence on our conscious and unconscious thought, directing the brain’s activity toward important goals. – Stop Paying Attention: [...]
The prior post regarding the Veblen effect in the economy of ideas needed an example – and this seems like a great one. Here is a religion (in the loosest sense of the term) which is so patently wrong as to be … well… fashionable. Scientology: Religion as Veblen good.
The term has escaped me time and time again over the last few weeks – I searched and wracked my brain to figure it out (without success) until now. As will usually occur, the words spontaneously came to me de repente – without warning or explanation – but I knew I had finally remembered what [...]
What happens when the magical fantasy land of fairy tale princesses intersects with reality? Whatever it is, I think it’s hilarious. Apparently modern day fairy tales are a popular meme amongst fashion photographers. Who knew?
Hard to believe that this all went down last week… I am just catching up on the news (given that I haven’t had to worry about which format the signals took when the TV Overlords beamed them into my mind in about six or seven years).
