Yahoo Is Evil, But…
for the first time is many years, Yahoo now has a new search tool that beats Google:
It’s a good idea to edit your preferences to turn off the safesearch nanny filter – the results get a lot more… interesting.
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Connections
I just noticed a weird, trainspotterish connection. In the 1974 series that was the major inspiration for the X-Files, Kolchak the Night Stalker, the episode “Mr RING” concerns a genetic-mechanical hybrid android that rebels against its programming and refuses to be deactivated. It escapes and tries to become more “human”, and of course a murderous rampage ensues. Anyway, the entity that created this bio-mechanical hybrid was the Tyrell Institute… virtually the same name as the corporation in the Bladerunner movie that creates the rogue replicants.
Ohio Low Down
Here’s a status report on the election “irregularities” in Ohio. It’s pretty ugly stuff, kind of a mini-Ukraine. Given the closeness of the result, the reasonable course of action would be to hold another election. But that won’t happen because of the way US politics has institutionalised control of the voting process by the dominant plurality party… in this case the Republicans. I also noted from the report that pretty much every substantial office is reserved for the appointment of declared Republicans (mostly) or Democrats (less so) in a weird system of state-proscribed two-party oligarchy that reminds me of how the Communists structured their political systems throughout the Eastern Bloc for maximum stability and resistance to change. They maintained an illusion of choice by also reserving public but generally insignificant slots for members of the officially sanctioned minority political parties (usually something along the lines of a “Farmers’ Party” or “Peasants’ Party”). This may presage the role of the Democratic Party in US politics for the next decade or so: the GOP’s tame poodle, fitting perfectly the role of an Emmanuel Goldstein pseudo-resistance group to GOP hegemony. It’s quite odd and definitely ironic as hell that the 21st century US now increasingly resembles mid-to-late 20th century Eastern Europe.
Pimps Up, Ho’s Down
So Pimps Up, Ho’s Down was apparently the title of one of the many porno media found in Michael Jackson’s bedroom during a warrant search. Surprisingly, much of the porn involved females, as well as males and juveniles. Looks like this case is not quite so open and shut as it might appear…
Free Cams!
From MeFi, people have inadvertently left their network-enabled webcams unsecured, some with motion and sound. This one has someone’s sleeping dogs! Some laundry. Some kind of altar. Frogger, for real. Tires and crap. Nerds hanging out. This hotel’s lobby. Enough rice for ten thousand curries! More frogger. Ah those ocean breezes and swells. Cute rabbit. Watch the watchers. Eerily deserted ostrich farm. Classy pagoda. A greasy kitchen. Some kind of school for tots. This eatery. Desolate street. Michigan beach and lighthouse. Fishtank (oldskool cam!). A model railway. Chinese government cam in Macao. Cold harbour. Dutch science museum. No clue what this is, but it could be an experimental wormhole.
There are lots more unsecured, motion controlled cams here or here or here. For a lot of these cams, the default login info is root:pass.
Free Propaganda!
Courtesy of our friends in NATO.
What Do You Believe Is True Even Though You Cannot Prove It?
What Do You Believe Is True Even Though You Cannot Prove It?
For me, I see there’s the Continuum Hypothesis debate on one hand, and the kinda-related (through acceptance, rejection, or modification of the axiom of choice ) plausible existence of satisfactory models of infinitesimals (derived from internal set theory ). The fact that so many people disagree violently with this belief, or in fact that there could be any disagreement at all (and that the relative strengths of differing and oppositional beliefs varies over time and across generations) leads me to believe that the shape and discourse of maths and logic are products of our embodied consciousnesses , that evolve within social lives organized from the top down through impenetrable hierarchies that make us into receptacles for the cultures that seduce us into functioning as robots in the economy.
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