Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Global Warming Causes Hornet Infestation!

It's not that I don't believe that the globe is/did/will again experience warming, or that the ecosystem/biosphere adapts to different climates. It's not that I really have anything against France. It's that I'm sick and tired of all of this bullshit about the impending 'crisis' that the doom-mongers are so breathlessly waiting for; you know, the one that will finally 'wake people up' to the evils of capitalism, and convince them to return to a planned society. Just because that's what they want, doesn't mean that's what's actually happening.

First of all, the globe, if it has warmed at all over the last hundred years, has not warmed up enough to cause hornets to suddenly invade France, causing unending havoc with the local bee population. It also has not warmed enough to cause a fraction of the things currently attributed to climate change. Finally, I believe that global warming, like diseases, can and will be dealt with by humans existing today that are brilliant, and completely financed by the spoils of capitalism.

It's like the doom-mongers really have no respect for the intelligence of the average citizen. No scratch that, they really don't. I'd hope that in fact, most people read this as the garbage propaghanda that it really is.

Monday, February 19, 2007

Mind Blowing Internet

Ok. If you know me personally, you'll know I'm the 'golly-gee-whiz' kinda guy when it comes to science and technology. And the reason for this is simple. Aesthetics, as I understand the term, relates to the cosmos, or the order of things. Fibonacci numbers, golden sections, harmonics, etc., all come from the natural order of the reality that we all participate in. These orders are recognized by us as beautiful because when we notice them in the world, we are only recognizing the part of our own bodies and minds that are designed by the same ordering principles. And so we strive for this order, we surround ourselves with it in our buildings, our arts, our languages, and I believe also in our science, among all other things that we make. So it is that I have been blessed to receive new and beautiful information to share with you. Check out Utorrent.com and download the software. Then, go to isohunt.com and search for anything you want to, and download it. When I say anything, I mean information; books, papers, movies, tv shows, music, software, ANYTHING. I can't do this site justice within the body of this post. All I can say, and of course this technology might be old news to you, is INCREDIBLE.

Another site worth checking out is gapminder.org, this thing is retardedly cool. It's a project by a Swedish academic in partnership with Google who have endeavored to graphically represent astounding amounts of data collected by the UN among other agencies. The data includes demographics, income distribution, birth rates, death rates, etcetera etcetera. The reason it's cool is that it manages to extrapolate remarkable global trends in a way that is very interesting and incredibly useful, and I dare say optimistic. If you are of the sky-is-falling set, you will not be pleased with the direction the world is actually headed, according to this site, I must warn you. Check it out!