This just came up on my playlist, and it inspired me to watch the video again. I hope some of you would like to see it again too...
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 16:51, Reply)
I adored them when I was a teenager!
And it fits right in with what I'm currently listening to - 'Ashes to Ashes' - can't bit a bit of Bowie.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 17:11, Reply)
that fucked up christian puppet shit(little bit sweary).
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 16:46, Reply)
Thank you for reminding me to catch up on iPlayer :D
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 16:51, Reply)
b3ta.com/links/The_Junior_Christian_Science_Programme
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 16:55, Reply)
Tim and Eric Awesome show Great Job!
www.truveo.com/Tim-and-Eric-Awesome-Show-Great-Job-TEASER-4-Liebe/id/986954242
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 17:00, Reply)
They've been doing that show for 20 years and they still can't match the puppets' mouth movements to their voices?
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 18:06, Reply)
touching, I love the way they used that " we will fix it" song for the credits too.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 18:39, Reply)
An optimistic system of thought ("holographic nature of reality") that I am interested in, I hope others can understand the message :) I think a lot of it is true, at least metaphorically! It cheers me up too. Hope u like it.
Features,
Michael Talbot "The Holographic Universe"
Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland
Joseph Campbell
and Bill Hicks (A few hard to hear 'F' words in there maybe - so be careful) Mainly SFW tho ;)
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 16:39, Reply)
I'm not quite sure of the relevance of Bill Hicks at the end of it though mind you.
You might be interested in looking up Nassim Haramein and his Resonance Project. That would go with the fractal universe that's kinda mentioned in the vid you just posted.
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6151699791256390335&hl=en
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1895475242307393956&q=source:004764722344893170701&hl=en
They are long videos though and get more complex as you watch them. He has some odd parts in there but there's flashes of genius. Plus it's all "optimistic" as you put it :)
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 16:54, Reply)
looks interesting, I haven't seen them before.
I definitely need it ;)
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 17:01, Reply)
I've been doing the same lately, reading about this kind of thing. It's mind blowing.
Worst stuff I've seen so far has been from Horizon on BBC, utter garbage, vague ideas, no logic or reasoning behind it.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 17:11, Reply)
we could theorise any system for the way things work and each would be as valid as the next. Occam's Razor is the most logical way to reason with things of this nature
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 17:16, Reply)
I was waiting for the narrow minded prick to try and push their ideas rather than just suggesting them.
You might want to research things before discounting them.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 17:20, Reply)
I agree with him, we should tend towards the explanation that makes the fewest unevinced assumptions.
He didn't attack this idea specifically, and demonstrated no narrow-mindedness.
This has made you, in my opinion, look like an arse.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 22:20, Reply)
As long as any theory fits a model it is valid, however the simplest theory is not always the correct one neither is the most complex.
we also need to explore new paths to validate or invalidate other theories or the theory itself, (e.g. The steady state universe or the big bang, we would not come to the big bang theory if it were not for the steady state theory), they are also only theories. Although for the theory the beginning of space & time itself, I am inclined to say 'other' for that, ha! (well one quite close to the big bang theory, as we know that everything is moving away from a point, however that they are also accelerating away, and takes into account cosmic background radiation, inflation, black hole formation etc.) What this theory is to hopefuly also explain consciousness itself (i.e. the experience of self and world), and not self-awareness as I feel this definiton is slightly vague.
I also came across another interesting yet unpopular theory of the Electric Universe (you can find on youtube).
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 17:28, Reply)
www.facebook.com/home.php#/topic.php?uid=7233042029&topic=4588
a lengthy discussion with 2 people regarding that theory. I haven't got round to looking at it yet but shall do as it sounds interesting.
Edit: Good point btw, I'm not as diplomatic as you lol! ;)
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 17:39, Reply)
I've started to read the discussion, I've only read the first guy's post so far! The first guy is suggesting the Electric universe idea by saying that only observable things should be acknowledged in scientific theory, which he has a good point that dark matter and dark energy are made up scientific ideas to fit the current model of cosmology. To digress, dark matter was "made-up" because it was found that galaxies could not stay together with gravity given the current knowledge of gravity, so to fit the current knowledge of gravity, dark matter suddenly appeared, which needs to be heavy, or a lot of it, because gravity is considered the "weak force". There are also many theories about why gravity is the "weak force" (e.g. Parallel universes etc.) But the Electric Universe theory assumes that it is not gravity, it is electromagnetism.
edit; And all of it seems valid, as long as it fits a theory using *observable* points
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 17:55, Reply)
So I'm not commenting on the ideas held within.
However, the phrase "it's only a theory" really gets to me. "Theory" in a scientific context has a different meaning to "theory" in general useage, which is closer to the scientific "hypothesis".
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 22:00, Reply)
*Breathes*
Ahah h h ah aaahha hhhhhh!!
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 16:42, Reply)
*Puts cigarette out*
*Looks around, suspiciously...*
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 16:57, Reply)
fantastic piece of edu-tainment there I think :) (yay fozzie) :)
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 16:50, Reply)
He must feel strongly if he's able to wear his band. I hope for his sake they're a three-piece or duo.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 16:01, Reply)
Just not him, though... ew, heavens no.
In other news, I want to buy one of those and cut the black band off.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 16:25, Reply)
Reminds me of this Sofaplanet song was all over the TV when I lived in Germany - 7 years later I still can't get it out of my head.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 17:18, Reply)
they'll realise that it's only big and clever in their backwards little heads.
Then maybe when they're there the second time it might sink in.
also: fucking hell, Nazi women are ugly.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 15:43, Reply)
then I shall sod off back to my own board in a huff.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 16:16, Reply)
I knew Campbells were wrong 'uns.
/McDonald blog
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 15:55, Reply)
See how long you can watch this without facepalming. Seriously.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 15:39, Reply)
he doesn't like our tone, hold the thrown! haha what a fooking nobber!
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 15:47, Reply)
just makes me laugh more than cringe. some people in his comments are accusing him of trolling, but he has a lot of videos, seems like too much effort unless hes serious.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 22:53, Reply)
rap video by a band who detest kittens and associated milks/fishies/snorgling.
NSFW due to swears and hatred of floof - for shame :-(
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 15:19, Reply)
(hopefully) the first, sorry about this guys:
CATARACTS?!
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 15:36, Reply)
I'm sorry, but even I could have done a better job than this!
Seriously...... why?
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 14:53, Reply)
I don't know what disturbs me more, the awful 'shopping or the subject matter...
*shudders*
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 14:55, Reply)
I'm going to the ice rink with my boss and some colleagues that I don't like at 5pm.....
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 15:42, Reply)
I'm sure some of my contacts at the MEN would fall for it!
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 15:00, Reply)
EDIT: Buggery, replied to the wrong one. Fucked if I'm changing it, though.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 15:04, Reply)
is "the wonders of computer trickery"?
What next, spellchecker!
Although I do currently work with people that think autosum is the zenith of modern computing technology. Cunts.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 15:06, Reply)
This is to promote my album which is for sale for a mere £5 - of which £4 is going to Shelter.
Not often I get to tick the 'I made this!' box :)
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 14:42, Reply)
Until I saw that Out of Time by Blur came up in the related!
But I shall listen to it properly once I fall off the blur train :D
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 14:45, Reply)
I wasn't expecting that one to be related!
Usually it's physics videos...
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 14:48, Reply)
I have listened to more music in the last 2 days than I have in the last month I think!
I finally decided that I should resolve the fact that iTunes was pissing me off due to missing artwork and misentered information. My iTunes library is now spick and span and totally complete, so I can listen to musics again :D
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 14:50, Reply)
I don't mind so much with the obscure stuff, but when it's missing some really obvious ones I lose interest... :D
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 15:00, Reply)
In a sense, I was quite lucky that my hard drive died a little while back and I lost all my music, so I had to start all over. I vowed to make sure everything was right as I added it, which I didn't, but the last 2 says I have just sat down and done it.
Win!
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 15:10, Reply)
I'm not all about the money either... there's loads of free stuff on t'interwebs for those that want it...
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 14:50, Reply)
and examines the theraputic value of putting fish in your shorts.
I still love him
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 14:20, Reply)
Link below made me look for Le Petomaine but I could only find this. Must have been on here before...
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 14:06, Reply)
Some absolutely amazing pictures here! Worth a look even if you aren't a sports fan!
EDIT: As an added bonus, you can have a set of pics of the Oklahoma Thunder Girls, the cheerleading troupe for the NBA Franchise, Oklahoma City Thunder.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0812/nba.dancers.thunder.girls/content.1.html
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:59, Reply)
If so, then I didn't think that at first, but now....
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 14:08, Reply)
Blimey, the photo after the above one is good though - being thrown, upside down, through the air! Great shot
Some top pics there, nice one
edit: can't edit subjects again. Thought that was fixed ^_^
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 14:08, Reply)
Quite inspiring though I guess.
I personally enjoyed 31 rather muchly :D
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 14:13, Reply)
Usain Bolts Nazi salute with inclusive Hitler 'tache at 47
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 14:13, Reply)
I loved the pic of him crossing the line. Makes you wonder how much he would've smashed the record by if he hadn't slowed up after 60 metres!
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 14:15, Reply)
I remember watching that and thinking the very same thing. I reckon if he kept going he would probably have broken the Matrix ;)
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 14:19, Reply)
To be honest, thinking about it now, I am actually rather pissed off with the bastard!
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 14:21, Reply)
Man plays The Entertainer on his hands.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:29, Reply)
...and the hands are just a cover up.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:34, Reply)
Extracting images from he brain
I'm reading the proper journal article at the moment, it's good stuff.
I especially like the idea that they can read dreams and extract images from an artists head before they have set pen to paper. Oooh, imagine making music just by thinking about it! sweeeet.
What would you like to do with this marvellous machine?
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:16, Reply)
Delivering the world’s largest selection of petroleum industry short courses and seminars...
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:24, Reply)
*Grabs arm* *Chinese burns*
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:25, Reply)
"I'm a celebrity, snuff me out!"
Prizes for the most imaginative death.
I'd go for Madonna having her body shattered by playing her own songs at her at extreme bone shattering volume.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:24, Reply)
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:38, Reply)
now that I know Derren Brown is gay....
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:40, Reply)
Just seeing those doodles of me in the gimp mask was disturbing enough...
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:22, Reply)
It's far too good to just be left as a dream.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:28, Reply)
like nazis on the moon :-p
If you have a dream about killing somebody you really hate, you could send it to them for christmas...
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:28, Reply)
Judy has pickled herself silly on alcohol so much over the years she's automatically preserved meat,
and there's be enough of her to feed you all for years.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:48, Reply)
*feels a little bit sick*
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:53, Reply)
Could make a lot of money that way ;)
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:26, Reply)
But I think they're talking bollocks. There's a huge leap of faith between the idea that you can read images from the visual cortex (which receives input directly from the retina) and the idea that imagined or dreamed images would be found there too. Nothing in the article suggested they had any proof of that (I haven't read the original paper, but...). More likely is that both visual images and imagined images both feed into the same place in the brain that comprises actual experience (Disclaimer: I'm not talking about a person in the brain). The brain is not a film screen.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:46, Reply)
(as I have a little bit of knowledge of this area) and repeat that 'the brain is not a film screen'!
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 14:21, Reply)
you'll have a very hard time reconstructing a complex scene, there aree simply too many possibilities *they acknowledge this in the paper(. They have managed to have very simple high contrast images constructed using voxel analysis. They use a ton of trials to do it and the amount of computation is quite mammoth, 'dream veiwing' is still, and probably alway will be, a pipe dream.
I always enjoy the news getting all imaginative with things thy don't really understand. Still, if this kind of technology is pushed, there are many possible uses for it. They already have 'brain controlled' wheelchairs for quadraplegics.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 14:29, Reply)
I'm not convinced that any 'leap of faith' is required for constructing an actual or imagined image using this technique. It would be a very interesting test to perform, and may involve different cortical areas but I can't think off hand why it should produce radically different results...
The images are extremely simple don't forget...
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 14:57, Reply)
No fancy technology required here.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:57, Reply)
because it depends on blood flow it has a refresh rate of around 10 seconds, so the idea of being able to extract live spontaneous visual imagery its pretty unlikely at the moment. Still pretty impressive though.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 14:20, Reply)
Chinese man dies in a bizarre set of circumstances.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 12:55, Reply)
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:04, Reply)
This is, gruesomely, my favourite bizarre death story from China...
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article1671455.ece
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:19, Reply)
Do people still do cloud seeding?
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:19, Reply)
read the pensioners and cosmetics rants
she only made it yesterday so there'll be lots more to come
there's a chatroom so if you could leave a little feedback that'd be much appreciated, seeing as its only been her friends who have looked at it so far
thanks :D
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 12:49, Reply)
Before I clicked, I made a wager with myself that this would be badly spelled, badly parsed, ill thought-out, and not at all funny.
I won.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 12:56, Reply)
And my respect, because now I know I don't have to click on it.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:01, Reply)
Didn't you post this on here last night as well? Spammity spam spam.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:02, Reply)
she's got a way with words, plus these were written when she was 13/14
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:03, Reply)
She's obviously about 16 so everything she writes will be fundamentally annoying as a matter of course.
If she lives a little and keeps working on it maybe she could be good one day.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:02, Reply)
i have though, and thanks for the feedback :D
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:11, Reply)
I have wasted 30 seconds of my life looking at her musings.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:03, Reply)
you were going to do anything useful with those 30 seconds, or were you writing something yourself?
a play perhaps, or a poem?
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:09, Reply)
is that it comes across in her writing that it thinks it is wittier than is actually evident, as
much of the content wildly latches onto other topics or strands without fully exploring the main topic or reaching a point.
thus, the 'jokey' elements get washed away quickly in the text and don't really serve any purpose.
It just reads as a standard teenager's blog to be honest, but that's just my opinion only. Hope she enjoys it though, after all, that is what blogging is about. :)
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:20, Reply)
I like you, you actually give feedback like LNADJKMD, thanks
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:24, Reply)
as long as she enjoys it, and gets some hits and good feedback, then good luck to her.
If she enjoys the writing, then it gives her experience in being able to learn as she goes along :)
This being said, it was my opinion only. I'm 32, and probably not the target audience for her words anyway, so it's all subjective.
I just think that it maybe needs a fair bit more content and work before finding a wider audience,
or she is sadly going to get ripped to shreds
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:27, Reply)
provocative != edgy != funny (except to immature teenagers)
This is inane, offensive, badly written, poorly spelt - unless measured against the writings of other 14 year olds, then it is quite good.
There are flashes which reveal a possible talent. Some elements that show promise.
This writing should not be made public - but she needs to go through this stage. She should be writing, in her journal. In a year or so, then she should make it public.
And she should find a URL for a dictionary.
I had a stroke last week. It sucks, and everything is hard work. Including typing correctly. She has no such excuse.
Meant to be genuine feedback. Her website is not as good as you think it is. Everybody needs a champion like you.
Well done!
Now fuck off for a year.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:34, Reply)
to write about things you like and can write about enthusiastically, rather than just rants which are hard to write without coming across like a curmudgeon.
"Don't you just hate old people?" Erm... no.
If you must rant, make sure the targets are deserving ones.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 13:54, Reply)
She is not a great writer. This is partly because of her views which as everyone has already said, are slightly juvenile and less funny than she thinks.
But the main problem is her writing style. The sentences lack structure and have no rhythm making them almost unreadable. I suspect this will come with practice.
As for content... hopefully it will improve as she matures but for now I would recommend that she reads QOTW. some of the best an most genuinely funny writing anywhere!
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 14:41, Reply)
Narrow minded, over opinionated, badly written, badly balanced, crap.
Tell her not to bother. Some people just don't have it and should not be allowed to speak in public...
I'm sure she'll have other talents which she's be much better suited to improving. This just isn't for her.
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 16:17, Reply)
no gaps = hard to read when I've a headache from staring at my computer screen all day at work.
may say there is "over use" of certain "things to make you sound a little cookey" and other things.
The writer and Phoebe from friends share a nievity as well as an inability to string together anything worth saying.
But good on you for trying to write stuff down. Keep at it and maybe you'll write something worth writing some day.
Thanks
(, Wed 17 Dec 2008, 16:34, Reply)
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