Per aspera

Via Majikthise:
Researchers at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition envision their work giving Army Rangers 360-degree unobstructed vision at night and allowing Navy SEALs to sense sonar in their heads while maintaining normal vision underwater — turning sci-fi into reality.
The device, known as “Brain Port,” was pioneered more than 30 years ago by […]

Oh, my nose. My poor nose.
1. “Amber,” Banco de Gaia
2. “Fantasy (Remix),” Mariah Carey & Ol’ Dirty Bastard
3. “The Lesson Pt. 3,” The Roots
4. “The Pros and Cons of Breathing,” Fall Out Boy
5. “Powers That Be,” Hieroglyphics
6. “Into,” Sigur Rós
7. “Promises of Eternity,” The Magnetic Fields
8. “Plum Dumb,” The Dead Milkmen
9. “Let’s Kiss,” Bullette
10. […]

Boy, the cronyism and corruption of the Bush administration sure has made a mess of FEMA. We should probably fix it raze it to the ground.
“Our first and most important recommendation is to abolish FEMA,” said Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins, chairwoman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. “FEMA is discredited, […]

Lincoln Sets the Parameters of the Duel
Due to the fact that Lincoln was the one who had been challenged to the duel, tradition gave him the privilege of choosing the time and location of the duel, as well as the weapons that were to be used. Being a man of humor and wit, and having […]

If you haven’t seen it, there’s a video making the rounds in which Kirk Cameron and his mustachioed co-host Ray Comfort explain how deeply stupid and easily refuted atheism and the theory of evolution are. The purpose of their program, which looks to be only one episode of a series of these shows, is […]

Today’s Yesterday was Earth Day. It shouldn’t be called that, of course, since it’s not the Earth that’s in trouble. We can do our worst, and in a million years, the Earth will still happily be incubating a cornucopia of species. Earth Day is actually more like Resist Collective Human Suicide Day.
So, […]

I’m posting this from work, after having run the iPod through ten songs worth of shuffle play with the headphones disconnected. Such is my devotion to you, my audience.
And now, the FRT:
1. “War,” Mos Def
2. “Solace of You,” Living Colour
3. “Time,” Sarah McLachlan
4. “Starter Kit,” Land of the Loops
5. “Rainbows,” Madvillain
6. “The theme from […]

Via this thread at Pharyngula, about killing wee creatures by the bushelful in the name of Science, we get a link to a rather specialized advertisement: “Only the Polytron reduces an entire mouse to a soup-like homogenate in 30 seconds.”
Accept no substitutes.

Bush Names New Interior Secretary:
Galactus promised to construct giant machines in the heart of Manhattan in order to “suck the very essence from the land and consume the natural resources with which your planet has been blessed.”
His chances of Senate confirmation are greatly increased by his godlike endurance, immesurable intelligence, omnipotence and possession of the […]

In the midst of a story about your basic seriously deranged child-killer with cannibal fantasies who - here’s the hook - also kept a blog, I tripped over this quotation from the local police chief:
“Regarding a potential motive,” Purcell Police Chief David Tompkins said Saturday, “this appears to have been part of a plan to […]

Pan pangenitor

“Deeper Into Movies,” Yo La Tengo
“Get Em High,” Kanye West
“Let Them Eat Ice Cream,” The KLF
“Happy Hour,” Everclear
“Ashes of American Flags,” Wilco
“Full Circle (feat. Goapele),” Hieroglyphics
“Jeremy,” Pearl Jam
“Wild Is the Wind,” Nina Simone
“Look for Me (I’ll Be Around),” Neko Case
“No Mermaid,” Sinead Lohan

I haven’t written about the Neko Case show yet. I went […]

If you’re not already, you should be reading Cat and Girl.
If you’re not already, you should be saving money to buy me this t-shirt.
Transmission ends.

Theresa Nielsen Hayden, who is wise as I hope to be someday:
Someone has to declare a dividing line. I’m doing it. After this, there are three reasons to publicly support Bush, or to insist there must be an excuse for his actions:
1. You’re stupid.
2. You know there’s no excuse, but you’re too dishonest and unpatriotic […]

Okay, and to make a ninety-degree, Tron-bike turn from the last post: anyone else as pants-shittingly terrified as I am about our upcoming nuclear first strike against Iran? Anyone else as certain that even an action as breathtakingly evil as using nukes in a war for the second time in history can be “debated” […]

Some day, I’ll probably finally earn my bachelor’s degree. There may come a time when I marry a wonderful woman, maybe buy a house, maybe have one or more children.
As of right now, though, that’s all gravy. I’ve just downloaded, transferred to my phone, and set as my ringtone the theme from Airwolf*, […]