Tricky - Black Steel


This song was my favorite song, but I didn't think Youtube has this video. :O

mood: amused tags: '90s, music, video

Whatever cheap offers they may make to try and get me to subscribe to the 'New Statesman', I will continue to use Andrex.

mood: Smooth.

Those wacky Japanese are at it again.

Solar powered bra 'can charge an iPod'.

iBra?

mood: Smooth.

Any of you running Debian or Debian-derived threads of Linux [includes Ubuntu] should check this and until you've updated, beware of trusting key-based ssh authentication.

キマグレン (Kimaguren) - Life


It is first J-POP's upload for me, but it my favorite recently.

mood: creative tags: j-pop, music, video

The Cat Returns ending song (Tsuji Ayano - Kaze Ni Naru)


I never see this anime yet, but these cats are cute, I thought.

mood: amused tags: anime, music, video

I am finishing off an essay on "Arian Christianity (the Father is Greater than the Son)". Arian Christianity was purer and less tainted with paganism that its successor (and made more sense!). But alas, although it was a close call, it was not the Christianity that the Roman Empire was to give the world! My page laments its demise under the ruthless hammer of Nicene/Cappadocian Christianity.

• Everyday Thinking Errors, about how our cognitive functions mistakenly create patterns from ambiguous data, and about social psychology results in inaccurate beliefs about patterns in the world.
  
  
• Gnosticism - a page on ancient gnosticism religion... probably not for this year though.
  
  
• International Citizens?? Something to do with globalisation, global citizens' pressure groups, the internet, potential world government, anti-nationalism, and stuff.
  
  
• Zombies: Necromancy; a page about the necromancers found in zombie films. Need time to re-watch some films.
  
  
• World Government (nearly finished).
  
  
• Obesity - on permanent hold ATM. About the medical and personal costs of obesity and its prevalence. Have lost sight of why I was doing this page.
  
  
• Seculariation Rates (religion). A collection of stats examining the progress of secularisation in the West, and its challenges and reverses.
  
  
• Neophobia - the fear of the new!

mood: hopeful tags: jesus, monotheism, religion, vexen, websites

Today I took Pin to the vet to have a scent gland tumour removed, for the third time. The vet rang at lunchtime to say that they'd finished and he was fine. I am astonished that such tiny critters can withstand all this chopping - Chip has also needed the operation, I think also three times - but I'm ever so grateful.

I don't know the gerbils' exact date of birth, but they were eight weeks old when I got them at the end of June 2005, so at some point recently they have had a third birthday.

I love to see their whiskery little muzzles poking through the bars for treats. I love talking to them and giving them cutesy nicknames like Chip-Ite and Pinniped and Fat Rat. I love the noise they make when they eat a tangerine segment. They're nice to come home to, nice to see in the morning, and nice to imagine going about their gerbilly business while I'm at work. Just knowing they're there in their corner of the living-room, these adorable pets who depend on me utterly, makes my life so much more pleasant.

Happy birthday, fatboys. You make a house a home.

mood: grateful music: Comin' In On A Wing And A Prayer - Ry Cooder

RJD2 - Work It Out


I got to love the artist. I heard he handled Massive Attack or Hikaru Utada's remix and so on. I heard some his songs in Youtube, but these sound like old movie's sound track.


Extra the video's links

The Horror

Smoke & Mirrors


Hope you enjoy them. :)

mood: amused music: RJD2 - Smoke & Mirrors tags: music, video

I've always been fascinated by the obscurer bits of life that exist around the edges of evolution.

Prions, for example, are just downright weird. Weirder than viruses - prions are essentially 'proteins gone bad' - but they're transmissible *without* needing to use the traditional DNA/RNA mechanisms we all know. Prions don't respire, move, feed, excrete - they don't respond to touch. But they spread and infect other victims. Is a prion therefore 'alive' in any sense? The existence of prions blurs the boundaries of what we have traditionally defined as life; either way the results of such malevolent protein-folding are really rather unpleasant.

Cheetahs have now been identified as being susceptible to a particular kind of protein-folding disease; the active agent has been shown to be transmissible to mice. All I can suggest is that if you're a mouse, it might be a good move to avoid contact with cheetah-dung.

All this makes me wonder - just what other obscure conditions are there which are caused by similar mechanisms? How did these mechanisms evolve? Or are we all ultimately doomed by an accident of protein geometry?

Ken Ishii - Game Over


This song from the album, "Sleeping Madness"

mood: amused tags: music, video

Too cute!

Dog 'fosters' kittens (BBC news flash video)

As for me....

YMO - Behind The Mask
Art Of Noise - Beat Box
Boom Boom Stellites - Push Eject

mood: curious tags: meme, music