An Intoxicating Blend of Badassery. Served Chilled Since 1987.™
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Phunk-A-Delic - Rockin’
The first 45 seconds are crack. Don’t tell me I didn’t warn you :)
I want some of these really fresh tshirts and prints from Imaginary Foundation. Who wants to send a couple my way? :D
Photo of the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland and France. Click on through for more photos, along with hilarious yet scary comments like:
Don’t worry, they have confirmed that the chance that a sustainable black hole will form and consume the earth is quite small.
What an amazing show. Did I mention there were three fucking encores?! THREE!
The Setlist (via blogparty)
The Prayer / Hunting For Witches / Waiting For The 7.18 / Banquet / Song For Clay (Disappear Here) / This Modern Love / Uniform / The Once And Future King / Mercury / So Here We Are / Like Eating Glass
Blue Light / Positive Tension / Flux / Helicopter
She’s Hearing Voices
Price Of Gasoline
By analyzing a comprehensive roster of terrorist groups that existed worldwide between 1968 and 2006, the authors found that most groups ended because of operations carried out by local police or intelligence agencies or because they negotiated a settlement with their governments. Military force was rarely the primary reason a terrorist group ended, and few groups within this time frame achieved victory.
Al Gore’s latest on the climate crisis; this is some powerful shit that got me thinking.
I’ll talk about it in a future post.
As a male I have a few interests: weapons, meat (preferably prepared by women), cars, war, sports, guitar riffs that melt your face, blood and sweat, tattoos, gambling, fight clubs, blowing things up, and rational thought and discourse.
Today, I have a post about the latter.
I finished reading Authentic Happiness by Martin Seligman a couple weeks ago.
The book is different from the usual “self-help” book bullshit in that Seligman uses his decades of work as a researcher and psychologist to dissect a very fuzzy concept - happiness and how to get it.
Anyway, the end of the book had a little blurb on God. Seligman looks at God in a way I’ve never thought about. He talks about how people think of four main characteristics to describe God:
1) God knows everything.
2) God has unlimited power.
3) God is good.
4) God came before everything and he/she/it was the creator.
Seligman then goes on to say how most agnostics and atheists seem to have the most trouble with number four, and he offers an explanation for it which he thinks agnostics and atheists will find easier to believe.
His argument has three parts:
1) Organisms are gradually becoming more complicated through evolution.
2) It is beneficial for organisms to become more complicated because that creates opportunities for more win-win situations (think of trade, technology, culture, and other forms of cooperation). Therefore, organisms are gradually moving toward perfection.
3) So, thinking extremely long term, it is probable that a “perfect being” will evolve.
Essentially, we are part of what will become God.
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Bloc Party - The Answer (Live @ SXSW, TX 2005)
In anticipation of tomorrow’s show… :D
Ehmm, SHARPIES?! I’d be so nervous about fucking it all up. Still, this is an OUTRAGEOUS ride.
We’re borrowing money from China to buy oil from the Persian Gulf to burn it in ways that destroy the planet. Every bit of that’s got to change.
“America must commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and other clean sources within 10 years.”
It would have been amazing to see him announce a run for the Presidency. Alas, I hope whoever becomes the next President works closely with Al Gore.
