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Thursday, July 21, 2005 Melting at worth1000. Evidently, Salma Hayek is made out of ice cream. At least its not Ape Lincoln. @ 04:32 AM CST [Link] Wednesday, July 20, 2005 Halfbakery: Nose 1-2-3. I can picture the infomercial now. @ 12:41 AM CST [Link] Great saturn photo. Wow, at these large scales everything seems to look like some kind of platonic perfect solid or at least looks like something made in illustrator. via robotwisdom @ 12:38 AM CST [Link] Good photos of uber-nerd art project simnuke. @ 12:36 AM CST [Link] Got some digital art up at deviantart. Mostly experiments with low-rez cameras and artifacts. @ 12:27 AM CST [Link] Monday, July 18, 2005 Interesting interview with Robert Anton Wilson Lots of outside the box/RAW goodness here. [MB] Let's seed them more widely right here! Can you explain to our readers what (Maybe Logic, the Snafu Law and the Cosmic Schmuck Law) are? [RAW] Maybe Logic is a label that got stuck on my ideas by filmmaker Lance Bauscher. I decided it fits. I certainly recognize the central importance in my thinking -- or in my stumbling and fumbling efforts to think -- of non-Aristotelian systems. That includes von Neumann's three-valued logic [true, false, maybe], Rappoport's four-valued logic [true, false, indeterminate, meaningless], Korzybski's multi-valued logic [degrees of probability.] and also Mahayana Buddhist paradoxical logic [it "is" A. it "is" not A, it "is" both A and not A, it "is" neither A nor not A]. But, as an extraordinarily stupid fellow, I can't use such systems until I reduce them to terms a simple mind like mine can handle, so I just preach that we'd all think and act more sanely if we had to use "maybe" a lot more often. Can you imagine a world with Jerry Falwell hollering "Maybe Jesus 'was' the son of God and maybe he hates Gay people as much as I do" -- or every tower in Islam resounding with "There 'is' no God except maybe Allah and maybe Mohammed is his prophet"? The Snafu law holds that, the greater your power to punish, the less factual feedback you will receive. If you can fire people for telling you what you don't want to hear, you will only hear what you want. This law seems to apply to all authoritarian contraptions, especially governments and corporations. Concretely, I suspect Bozo knows factually less about the world than any dogcatcher in Biloxi. The Cosmic Schmuck law holds that [1] the more often you suspect you may be thinking or acting like a Cosmic Schmuck, the less of a Cosmic Schmuck you will become, year by year, and [2] if you never suspect you might think or act like a Cosmic Schmuck, you will remain a Cosmic Schmuck for life. @ 02:37 PM CST [Link] Family guy in real life. Not sure who made this, but its a half-assed but amusing hoax. It was clearly made in photoshop. "Ah, c'mon, Lois, isn't 'bribe' just another word for 'love'?" @ 02:11 PM CST [Link] New webcomics today. Cat and girl just zinged the entire blogosphere, and I have to admit deservedly so after checking out some journal-type sites recently. Also: New Mr. Wiggles too. Sinfest has been doing this amusing battle of the sexes run recently too. @ 02:05 PM CST [Link] Sunday, July 17, 2005 Nerdprom.Warren Ellis's site is worth checking out today as he's been photographing some of the weirder people at the San Diego Comicon all weekend, or as he calls it "Nerdprom." Looks like all the photos are from his Treo650 phone. Would it have killed Palm to put in a better camera in these things? @ 02:55 PM CST [Link] 40 things that only happen in movies. I hate this one: 18. If a microphone is turned on it will immediately feedback. @ 02:49 PM CST [Link] Futurama has a future? Looks like there's going to be a Futurama straight-to DVD movie. Hopefully, it'll sell well and they'll bring back the series, which had so much potential as a Simpson's replacement. As much as I like the Simpsons, its really time to put that horse out to pasture. @ 02:38 PM CST [Link] [Archives] Search entries: