All posts from April 18, 2009

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Daylight Dies - A Subtle Violence

Mis escuchas de este disco empiezan a aproximarse a las del Master of Puppets.

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A Future Timeline of Humanity and the Universe »

For years, this has been one of my favorite websites. Favorite in the 1.0 way: a static, rarely updated page one can visit from time to time, without any “hot” new content to assimilate but a long, well documented, carefully pre-written essay.

“VRD was initially developed for military use. Such devices are currently in use with several military units, such as the U.S. Army’s Stryker Brigade. The commander of a Stryker armored vehicle can view its onboard battlefield computer with a helmet-mounted daylight-readable display. So, the commander can observe the surroundings, drive the Stryker, choose the best path, and share tactical information.”

“VRD was initially developed for military use. Such devices are currently in use with several military units, such as the U.S. Army’s Stryker Brigade. The commander of a Stryker armored vehicle can view its onboard battlefield computer with a helmet-mounted daylight-readable display. So, the commander can observe the surroundings, drive the Stryker, choose the best path, and share tactical information.”

They're made out of Meat »

“There’s no doubt about it. We picked several from different parts of the planet, took them aboard our recon vessels, probed them all the way through. They’re completely meat.”

“That’s impossible. What about the radio signals? The messages to the stars.”

“They use the radio waves to talk, but the signals don’t come from them. The signals come from machines.”

“So who made the machines? That’s who we want to contact.”

“They made the machines. That’s what I’m trying to tell you. Meat made the machines.”

“That’s ridiculous.”

Read it.

dailymeh:

Short story β€” really, it’s a quick read β€” by Terry Bisson.

“Turn On meant: go within to activate your neural and genetic equipment. Become sensitive to the many and various levels of consciousness and the specific triggers that engage them. Drugs were one way to accomplish this end. Tune In meant: interact harmoniously with the world around you β€” externalize, materialize, express your new internal perspectives. Drop out suggested an elective, selective, graceful process of detachment from involuntary or unconscious commitments. Drop Out meant: self-reliance, a discovery of one’s singularity, a commitment to mobility, choice, and change. Unhappily my explanations of this sequence of personal development were often misinterpreted to mean: get stoned and abandon all constructive activity.”

—Timothy Leary