Sunday, April 28, 2013

Metal Philosophical Cosmology

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The universe is not beautiful or sensible or meaningful (of course it's not) and it's totally justified being annoyed at the idiots ...
Sunday, April 21, 2013

John Oswald, Spectre (1990, perf. Kronos Quartet)

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A Fun Game: Postmodern Writing vs. Written by a Human?

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Please enjoy this postmodern text generator , in line with previous writings on Markov chains ( here , here and here ). This is sort of a ...
Monday, April 15, 2013

Metal Scholarship, and the Evolution of Distortion

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From this Wall Street Journal article . See, I knew there were other people out there who thought deeply about metal! I'm hurt that I ...

A Moore's Law Argument for Panspermia

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From Sharov and Gordon's paper Life Before Earth at arXiv. The implication is clear from the figure - that life has followed a logari...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

New Call to Regulate Drones: from Google Head Eric Schmidt

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This is cross-posted at my technology blog, The Late Enlightenment . Article here . There's a clear motivation for governments and th...

Sepultura, Territory (Chaos A.D., 1993)

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The riff that begins at 2:33 is one of their best ever and crushes my frickin brain every time I hear it. The percussion on this album was ...

I Feel the Earth Move, Carole King (Tapestry, 1971)

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I always thought this rather groovy song could be re-interpreted with ominous science fictional overtones.

Alien Thumbsnatchers! (Animated Short)

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I like the lasso scene.
Saturday, April 13, 2013

What Frickin Planet is This On

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The answer is Arizona of course. From my new favorite website, Trailporn . One of my biggest pet peeves is when you see gorgeous non-CGI...
Tuesday, April 9, 2013

The 600 Series Had Rubber Skin. We Spotted Them Easy.

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Here's an interview with one of the engineers .

Meteors Probably Supplied Activated Phosphorus to Early Earth

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ATP. Paper here . This has interesting implications for the von Neumann probe panspermia hypothesis - that is, that there are chemical...
Thursday, April 4, 2013

Artificial Languages Talk, UCSD, April 19

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Information here . The developers of Na'avi, Klingon and Dothraki will be speaking.
Saturday, March 30, 2013

NASA Trailer to Run Before New Star Trek Movie

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Successfully crowdfunded too. Pretty cool. Especially because of the narrator.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Sacred Reich, Crawling (Independent, 1993)

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Independent is the "single" from the album of the same name, as much as metal bands had singles in 1993, and had a video, and is ...

Most Likely Chord Progressions

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Hook Theory is a site which took someone a lot of work, where you pick chords and it tells you the percent likelihood of the chords which fo...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Evidence of Panspermia in Sri Lankan Meteorite?

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That's the claim made by some scientists from Sri Lanka and Wales on material from a witnessed fall, based on elemental content and elec...
Monday, March 4, 2013

First Law Making Drones Illegal for Individuals, Okay For Government

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This is also posted at my economics blog, The Late Enlightenment . A Senator in New Hampshire - a Republican (more on this below) has prop...
Sunday, March 3, 2013

As I Lay Dying, Morning Waits (8-bit version; orig. from Shadows Are Security, 2005)

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I was going to post the original, which (like almost all As I Lay Dying) I dig in the extreme - and you know why? Because As I Lay Dying do...
Tuesday, February 26, 2013

The 70s Science Fiction Landscape of California

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This is cross-posted to my California travel and outdoors/trail running blog, MDK10 Outside . The Theme Building at LAX, from theinterrob...