Misc.

Bernanke is a genius

If he keeps it up, maybe we'll get to be #7 on this list

It's time to reboot America

And this is just awesome/hilarious

Accelerating into the Future

For those who might be interested, you can view the final term paper of my undergraduate career at Georgia Tech here. Once there, click the down arrow on the right side of the screen to download.

Topics of the paper include: the technological singularity, nanotechnology, the Internet, artificial intelligence, the monetary system, and machine automation.

I welcome any and all comments and questions.

December 21, 2012

On the winter solstice of the year 2012, our sun will align with the center of the galaxy. This astronomical event occurs only once every 26,000 years.

The wobble of the earth will also complete its 26,000 year cycle as well. And the magnetic field of the earth will shift.

More change will occur in the next 4 years than in the previous thousands of years.

That which has no integrity will collapse. It will be a time of chaos, and out of that chaos will emerge a new order. What order that is we must decide individually and collectively.

Conspiracy Theories

No more school

Well, done with college.

B.S. in History, Technology, & Society from Georgia Tech.

Honestly, I would say the majority of it was a waste of time. Rote memorization of meaningless facts and data, busy work, and bullshit papers.

But I did learn how to write, met a lot of cool people, had the occasional light bulb moment.

Based on my experience at just one of thousands of colleges, I would say that there is abundant room for improvement in the way we educate. Young people should be allowed to explore their interests freely, not forced to study irrelevant topics that don't interest them. Why do we retain this method?

Of course, I am content with my decision to earn a degree from this university. I will have better job opportunities and "social respect".

As for now, I have no idea what I want to do. Some money in the bank for a while.

Maybe I'll start a business helping the older generation learn how to get the most out of their iPhones. But I'll probably have to get some sort of job until there is significant revenue from that.

I've got some real thinking to do.

Worry!

In light of the recent economic downturn, many people are losing their jobs and getting laid off.

Could you be next? You never know, they could fire you any day!

In order to deal with this uncertainty, I have one suggestion: Worry!

Worrying is more useful than you might think. Worrying has helped many employees keep their jobs. It raises your stress level, and you can use that to make your boss feel sorry for you.

Worrying is a very valuable, productive activity. My advice is to set aside at least 15 minutes a day to worry.

This may sound hard at first. You're probably thinking to yourself, "I've already got enough on my daily To Do list. Now I have to add worrying?"

If 15 minutes sounds intimidating, start by worrying for just one minute a day. Then you can work your way up to 3 minutes, 7 minutes, and eventually 15 minutes.

With hard work and determination, you can climb your way up to the status of a full-fledged worry-wart. Now get worrying!

END THE FED Atlanta LIVE Webcast

Tune in on Saturday, November 22, 2008 between 12:00 Noon and 2:00 PM for live video from the END THE FED rally at 1000 Peacthree Street in Midtown Atlanta.

I will be streaming live video from my iPhone using Qik. You can watch here.

This technology is still in early development, the video may freeze or cut off for several minutes at a time. Just reload the page if the uplink is interrupted.

And I will likely have to go off air for periods of time to conserve battery life. That way I can get a sampling of different points in time in the rally.

The video will be recorded and available at the same page once the event is over.

Please comment on your viewing experience. Thank you.

We will be rallying at the corner of 10th & Peacthree.

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Opinion: No More Bailouts

America was built on capitalism. The free market is the driving force behind our prosperity.

In the past couple months, government officials and corporate executives have been working together to use taxpayer money to bail out companies that are "too large to fail." What this amounts to is corporate welfare.

The argument in favor of these bailouts is that we need to keep these corporations afloat to prevent even more economic woes. Well, we gave $700 billion to the banks, and did they create more loans? No, they either sat on it, bought up smaller banks, or rewarded executive management. Now GM and Ford have their hands out.

My thoughts on this are in line with Ron Paul's. If a corporation is going bankrupt due to poor management or poor sales, it needs to fail. It is no longer relevant to our economy.
Instead of keeping people employed to create obsolete products (e.g. GM & Ford manufacturing gas-guzzling SUVs and pickups), put them to work in new companies that will produce hybrids and electrics. Keeping out of date companies afloat only postpones the inevitable.

Propping up bad business models does not make any sense. What is a company's incentive to perform if they can bank on the government helping them out if they screw up?

Furthermore, the Federal Reserve is chief cause of this mess in the first place. Business cycles are not some sort of natural occurrence. They are directed by the Fed which through artificially low interest rates and easy credit encourages businesses to make bad decisions. Then, every few years, the Fed raises interest rates back up, credit dries up, businesses fail, and we get recessions.

What this amounts to is central planning, which is not that different that communism. Communists believe a central authority knows best of how much of each item to produce, be it cars, corn, or coal. Nobody, no matter how intelligent, can know the desires and demands of 300 million American citizens. That is why we have the free market.

Feel free to comment.

Bankers 1, Hackers 1

Cyber-Hackers Break Into IMF Computer System

Live video feed from END THE FED – Atlanta

For those of you who can't make it, I will be providing a LIVE FEED from the END THE FED Rally in Atlanta on Saturday, November 22, 12:00 - 2:00 PM Eastern Time. (There will be rallies in 38 cities nationwide.)

I have just discovered an application for jailbroken iPhones called Qik.

This allows me to STREAM LIVE VIDEO from my iPhone to the web. Since I have a holster, I can clip it onto my belt or the top front collar of my shirt for first-person perspective.

Once again, I will be broadcasting LIVE from the END THE FED rally at 1000 Peachtree Street in midtown Atlanta. Check back soon for the link to the stream.

But don't just sit at home and watch. Get out of the house and stand up for freedom!

Worth 1,000 Words

LOL@McCain

If you got several minutes of spare time and want a good laugh...

LOL@McCain

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And this is simply unbelievable.

Palin is so dumb...

It's Time to Wake Up

Sometimes the truth hurts.

Thesis

The following is my thesis for a research paper in one of my classes at Georgia Tech, "Innovation in America." The paper will be done by early December.

Our world is rapidly approaching the greatest paradigm shift in human history. We are on the precipice of a quantum leap in human awareness. Technological progress has been improving at an ever-increasing rate since man crafted the first stone tools. We presently find ourselves in a world of unprecedented, accelerating change. The Internet, born less than a fraction of a second ago on the clock of evolutionary time, has already revolutionized our lives. For the first time in the history of this planet, the earth’s parts are being connected together and linked up to a “global brain,” an intelligence greater than anything we have ever known. The union of human consciousness with artificial intelligence will create a civilization so far advanced as to be completely alien to our current selves.

The pace of change has now become so swift that our aging governmental, corporate, and financial institutions can no longer adapt; they are inherently oriented toward the status quo, thus impeding progress. The current economic crisis we are experiencing is the first sign of a breakdown in the world’s monetary-based production systems. The static, bureaucratic organizations running the show are simply incompatible with this rate of change. A new order will soon emerge to replace these obsolete systems. We now have the technological means to produce an overabundance of food, housing, and other goods using automated machines in place of human labor. Once scarcity is eliminated and the earth’s resources are intelligently managed–instead of foolishly fought over–there will be no basis for wars, poverty, or servitude. People will then have the freedom to explore, learn, and create as their heart demands. We are entering an era of unbounded innovation.

Join the Revolution

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)


Watch an inspirational video, eleven minutes in length.

Voting: An Exercise in Futility

This recent, brief article from The Onion is just plain awesome.

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Struggling Lower-Class Still Unsure How Best To Fuck Selves With Vote

WASHINGTON—As election day nears, millions of the nation's poorest voters have reportedly yet to settle on the most profound and enduring way to completely fuck themselves over when they head to the polls this year.

"On the one hand, I'm pretty sure Barack Obama will undermine my best interests by maintaining the same centrist, pro-corporate policies of previous Democratic administrations," said Jim Estey, 34, a recently laid-off assembly-line worker. "Conversely, I agree with McCain and Palin on abortion, which might just balance out the fact that they'll further marginalize people like me by supporting deregulation and slashing social programs. So it's pretty much a toss-up at this point."

Though such behavior appears to directly undermine their own well-being, lower-income voters have historically supported candidates determined to screw them six ways to Sunday, including Bill Clinton, who incarcerated them in record numbers and cut the welfare benefits many depended on for day-to-day sustenance, and George W. Bush, who widened the gap between them and the rich and sent thousands of them to die in Iraq. This year's election is reportedly unique in that the nation's poor must not only weigh how deeply and painfully their chosen candidate will penetrate their rectums, but must also consider unforeseen outside circumstances—such as economic collapse and terrorism—that might allow the next president to bend them over and brutally rape them in ways they never thought possible.

The latest polls indicate that a majority of lower-class citizens might choose not to vote at all Nov. 4, preferring instead to leave the details of how they get fucked to the moneyed classes.

Source Page

Simcity

So I'm looking at the new Google Earth app for iPhone and I realize, hey, that looks exactly like SimCity.

I remember when I was a kid, about 10 or 11, playing Simcity 2000, and thinking the city I made was so cool, and I wished I could live in it.

Now I look at Google Earth's satellite view of Atlanta and realize I'm living in that city.


Scene from Simcity 5


Viewing Atlanta in Google Earth for iPhone

Pointless Polls

Look at this recent poll found on the front page of Drudge. It's pretty self-explanatory (at least in one sense): roughly half of people are voting for one guy, and roughly half for the other, and for some reason we make a big deal out of the marginal difference.

The election is never split 40/60 or 30/70. Why? Because both candidates are the same. You could just have everyone flip a coin and you'd end up with the same pattern, roughly half for this guy and half for that guy.

I'm not quite sure how to say it; it just looks silly to me. All these polls, every day, about who's ahead by so many percent, or behind so many percent. Can't we find something more productive to do than constantly bicker about who the next president's gonna be?

Mindless Robots

This is what happens when you allow yourself to be brainwashed by religion, television, nationalism, and other forms of propaganda. The mind closes shut, critical thinking stops, and you become...well, just click play.

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Republicrats & The Plutocracy

The following letter was forwarded to me by a friend. More and more people are declaring our political system broken.

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I have been a registered Republican since I was 18. I am now 54. I have voted every year for every candidate, local, state, and national who was a Republican because I believed that because they SAID a lot of things I agree with, that they would actually DO what they said. I am sorry to say that the Republican Party has been hijacked and has left me completely. I could go on and on with a list of reasons but it would bore you all to tears, and might even convert some of my old time Republican buddies who still have scales on their eyes and can't see that these neoconservatives have screwed us to the wall (with our permission).

I am no longer blindly supporting the Republican Party. I am not supporting the Democratic Party either. They are one in the same. We can have war mongering socialism or welfare spending socialism. It is still socialism. By the way, in case you haven't noticed, the welfare state has prospered quite well (and hasn't gotten any smaller) since our compassionate conservative George W. Bush has been in office pissing our money away.

There are more Obama supporters who agree with Ron Paul and a true "Freedom Agenda" than there are McPain supporters. I know I know, it just shouldn't be. But it is. The "Christian Right" has been totally supportive of unconstitutional pre-emptive war against a country which had done nothing to us, incredible, out of control socialistic spending which has DOUBLED the national debt (from about $5,000,000,000,000 to over $10,000,000,000,000) in 8 years of Mr. Bush (who I voted for twice). We just concluded the fiscal year with the largest deficit ever recorded in our history - almost $500 BILLION in one year, and that doesn't even count the bailout. We may even be set up for a TRILLION DOLLAR deficit in the next fiscal year if we're lucky.

We now have a true Big Brother government who has spent 2 trillion dollars making the "illegal" drug market incredibly profitable and ruinous to our nation. Who really gives a rat's ass if I sit on my porch and smoke a left handed cigarette? We will make nearly ONE MILLION arrests this calendar year for the terrible crime of pot possession. And how much more is this war on drugs really costing us when you look at the costs of taking a potentially productive person out of society and putting him in a cage and feeding him and we pay for it? How many lawyers and courts and judges and jails and wardens are sucking the milk from that gigantic tit?

Oh, and they can now spy on us whenever and wherever they please. Oh, and we now have TSA screwing up airports everywhere, and just this week, those geniuses let me right through security with a knife in my carry on luggage while my wife had a bottle of shampoo and a bottle of lotion confiscated. Geniuses. Any WE are paying for this horseshit!

Oh, and another small endeavor. We have military bases in over 100 countries around the world, making sure the world does what we tell them to do. Oh, and this is only costing you, me and all the other suckers paying the bill about ONE TRILLION DOLLARS per year. And more to come. Of course, Halliburton and all those other who patriotically "support" our military love it. They do actually get paid you know.

If anyone who considers themselves to be a true patriotic American, who believes in the values this once great country was founded on, then you should take a couple of hours and read Ron Paul's "The Revolution; A Manifesto". http://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Manifesto-Ron-Paul/dp/0446537519 You will begin to have the scales peeled back from your eyes and see what this crazy establishment has done to our country.

Not me. Not anymore. I will not support either of these socialists. There is no such thing as the lesser of two evils. I thought there was up until I finally had my eyes opened. Was George W. Bush really less evil than Al Gore? They are both socialistic idiots.

Is John McCain less evil than Barack Obama? They are both socialists. One is a complete idiot socialist who has been latched on to the government tit his whole life, and his father's whole life. The other is a young, charismatic, pretty intelligent socialist who talks change. What a joke!

In Support of Anarchy

Most people, when confronted with the idea of anarchy, casually assume it could never work. "Wouldn't we all just go around killing each other?" is the standard reaction.

But what if there were no law against murder. Would everyone just start killing each other? I don't think so.

We live in a world that is organized in a hierarchical structure. Authority and power are wielded by a handful of men at the top of the pyramid, who make decisions which affect the lives of everyone below them. They will never be able to elicit lasting happiness for their subjects, simply because they cannot know each and every desire of each and every individual below them.

This top-down organizational paradigm is an anomaly in nature. Look at ant colonies, for example. There is no king or queen ant directing the rest of the ants. (The queen ant just lays eggs.) Each ant behaves autonomously; it knows what to do. There is spontaneous communication going on, through feelers and chemical messengers. But the whole colony is one super-organism, self-organizing itself. This concept is also known as swarm intelligence. Other examples of decentralized systems include the Internet, and more specifically, peer-to-peer networks like Gnutella.

So why not human society? Anarchy, the absence of government, is the natural order of man. To be governed is tragic; to govern is pathetic. I believe we would all be happier in the absence of government. Sure, there would be problems, but the U.S. government seems to create more problems than it solves. The drug war, a monopolized monetary system, endless laws, taxes going to pay for bloated bureaucracies that do nothing, stupid wars. The list goes on and on.

Chaos creates order. Order creates chaos. The state imposes artificial order onto this land, creating chaos in the forms of crime, poverty, and depression. If we dismantled the government and let anarchy ensue, a new order would arise out of the chaos. An order that reflected the needs and desires of each and every individual. An order whereby each local community could direct its own fate. An order based on mutual respect and understanding. An order where people would come together to solve problems instead of relying upon unresponsive elected officials.

Is it possible to live in a world where everyone's desires are fulfilled? A world free of boring work? A world where every day is another day in heaven? Or should we just settle for this so-so world? The change starts inside of you. As you change, people around you begin to change. And slowly (or quickly) our world/consensus reality starts to reflect our most imperative dreams. I will end with the following quote from Nelson Mandela.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Finally, ABC recently aired a great segment by John Stossel questioning the necessity of government. He uses an ice skating rink as an analogy for anarchy. Really gives you something to think about... (Skip ahead to 5:10)

Freedom to Choose

It's great to live in America, "Land of the Free". We have real freedom here.

Take our election for example. We get to choose whoever we want, as long as it's a Republican or Democrat. You know, just like when you're at the grocery store. You have the freedom to choose: paper or plastic?

We get to choose between two paths: the McBama way or the Ocain way. There's no other alternatives. There are only two solutions two every problem: the Democratic solution and the Republican solution.

Because that's how the world works. Black or White. Yes or No. Easy or Hard.

Monkeys with Bulging Brains

Cuz we're all just a bunch of monkeys.

The System

This election is a charade.

If you're a "democrat", you throw all your anger and frustration with the government at the Republicans. If you're a "repbulican", you throw all your anger and frustration with the government at the Democrats. It's all a scam designed to decieve people from targeting their indignation at the true culprits.

And who are the true culprits? International bankers. Multinational corporate CEOs. The Trilateral Commission. The Bilderberg Group. The United Nations.

Basically, the people at the top of the power pyramid, who hoard all the wealth and use their inherited power to keep everyone scared, in debt, and peforming unnecessary, boring labor.

The rich banksters and power brokers: who are they? And why don't I hear people talking about this more? Is this not wrong, that a handful of privileged individuals have something like 50% of the money/power? Isn't it time to do something? It's going to continue to worsen unless we do something.

A small handful of selfish, greedy individuals is exerting a disproportionate amount of influence over the world. Greed, fear, and misguided intellect are the personality traits of our so-called "leaders". Shouldn't we have people leading us who are humble, selfless, and, above all, intelligent?

Don't vote. Voting sends a message to the establishment that you comply with their fraudulent, disfunctional system and are willing to play by their rules. Their game SUCKS!

Don't Vote.

Good News!

More people are waking up. This crisis is actually a good thing. It is exposing the elite for the crooks that they are. Americans will not put up with this much longer.

Read more on LewRockwell.com

The Two Candidates

Don't listen to anything they say. It doesn't matter.

Cracks in the Establishment

The rich keep getting richer. The poor keep getting poorer. And the middle class is getting poorer too.

I feel that the gap between the rich and the poor is becoming so large it's reaching a breaking point. After the recent bailout, more people are becoming aware of the division between the ruling/elite class in power (probably 1-2%) and the vast majority of people (probably 98-99%). We see ourselves at the mercy of government officials and corporate executives who, for the most part, show no regard for us.

The feeling of injustice is brewing in this country. The old institutions, structures, and bureaucracies are starting not to work; they will soon be obsolete. What emerges to replace them is up to us.

END THE FED

Now that Congress has ignored the people and passed this immoral bailout for the rich corporate executives on Wall Street, it is time to take action and fight back!

You have a choice: sit idly by and watch this country fall apart, or stand up and make your voice heard.

We must shut down the Federal Reserve. Ron Paul has introduced a bill to dissolve the Fed.
CALL AND E-MAIL YOUR CONGRESSMEN. Tell them to SUPPORT and PASS HR 2755, the Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act.

Do not relent. Our representatives will not be able to deny the people's will once we have begun flooding their inboxes and phones demanding to END THE FED.

House
Senate
Ron Paul's Campaign for Liberty

Mind Control

Nothing can stop an idea whose time has come.

Nothing is impossible. Unless you think it is.

I see people's minds as biocomputers. Everyone is running various programs. Most people are programmed by the corporate/governmental power structure, via the media.

Anyone can reprogram their mind. This is called self-meta-programming. Right now people's programs contain 'beliefs' such as:

• there is scarcity in the world (there is not enough stuff/resources to go around)
  
• money is necessary
• if there were no government/central authority, everyone would go around killing each other

Our beliefs are completely arbitrary. We can reprogram at will. Try believing the following for a day:

• Everything I want and need, I already have and am.
• I love everyone, and everyone loves me.
• There is nothing to worry about. Everything will work out even more perfectly than I plan.

Observe what programs you are running.

For more on the human biocomputer, and how to master it, I highly recommend Prometheus Rising, by Robert Anton Wilson.

Zeitgeist Addendum

This new movie, "Zeitgeist Addendum", is amazing.

I don't even know where to begin. Just watch it.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=zeitgeist&hl=en&emb=0#

Our monetary system is fraud. Rethink everything. We are on the cusp of the biggest transformation in human history. All the old systems and obsolete institutions are about to be purged.

Heaven on earth is not only possible, it is inevitable.

It all begins with a change inside each one of us, inside me, inside you. Stop expecting the same. Nothing is impossible.

Watch this movie.

On another note, I saw Bill Maher's "Religulous" last night. Phenomenal. Hilarious! Religions are stupid.

Corporate Welfare

Looks like our government is headed down the path to a fascist police state. What will it take for people to wake up and fight?

By sitting idly by and doing nothing, you are not only consenting to this madness, you are supporting it.

Don't look to either of the Republicrats for salvation. Neither has addressed our $10 trillion debt. Both are pro-war. Both will raise taxes. Both will expand government and authorize new, unconstitutional powers. It is a false choice.

A vote for the lesser of two evils remains a vote for evil--a vote for the status quo and the two-party system. That is why I am voting third party. A vote for anyone other than these two candidates sends a message that you reject the establishment. As of now, I am planning to write in Ron Paul.

Thank god for Ron Paul.

Moved

I have moved this blog from intramind.blogspot.com to intramind.wordpress.com.

jonhege.com forwards to intramind.wordpress.com.

I can blog from my iPhone and post to my wordpress blog.

iPhone 3G

I am hoping to get my hands on my new iPhone 3G tomorrow. Getting up early to be at Apple Store Lenox at 8am! Here's a pic of me the day I got the first iPhone in September '07.



The iPhone 3G and the avalanche of native applications is going to change everything. We are seeing a new level of connectivity. Location-based information. New types of communities. Friends where you'd thought there'd be none. How exciting to be alive now! The possibilities are unlimited...

I plan to take some pics of the scene at the Apple Store tomorrow and post them on my flickr photostream in real time.

Monday, July 14, 2:35PM
Update:
So I walked down to Lenox Friday morning 'round 9:30 am. Walked by the AT&T store on Lenox road across from the mall. Roughly 70 people in line. Screw that, so I walked to the Apple Store inside the mall. The line was ridiculous! I couldn't even see where it started or ended. Must have been 100-200 people. No way I was waiting in that. F*** it, I said, and began walking out when I passed the other AT&T outlet inside the mall. Only 8 people in line!
The AT&T person said FedEx would be delivering 28 iPhones at around 1:30 PM. Fine, I'll wait three hours and have my new phone!
After an hour of waiting the lady comes back and says, "Yeah, um, we're not sure how many phones we're gonna be getting." Could be 0, 2, 5, 10, we don't know."
Okay, I thought to myself. I still think I'll get it. I'm only tenth in line.
An hour later the manager comes out and says, "Yeah, um, we're not going to be getting any iPhones today, so um, thank you." WTF!!! Complete B.S.
Then he said I could just keep waiting and they'll sign us up for direct fulfillment, meaning I pay now and they will deliver the phone to the store tomorrow.
I wait another hour and they can't even complete the checkout process for the first two people. Using my current iPhone I checked online to discover the iTunes server was having problems. So after three hours of waiting I gave up and went home.
iPhone 3G Launch day? More like iWait day.
Still don't have the new one, but I think I'll be able to get it within the next few days.

Thursday, July 17, 5:35PM
Update:
Called the Apple Store Lenox Square yesterday evening. He said the line is still 7 hours long. Unbelievable.

Thought for the Day

"Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves."

–George Orwell, 1984

Game Over

There is a power structure in this world.



A superelite group of men rule the world. They are known as the Bilderberg Group, or the Bilderbergs. They enslave us. Their egos enslave them. And the ego is the cancer of the mind.

Watch the movie. They can't win if you inform yourself.

EndGame

Game over.

These guys control subheads such as: The Federal Reserve, The World Bank, The United Nations. The European Union, The Asian Union, The North American Union, and International Monetary Fund.

They're going down. The Revolution is Now.

Food Prices!

Hawaii is getting obliterated by food prices, vis-á-vis oil prices and inflation.

Organic Milk: $9!
White Bread: $5!

They're gonna have to start growing their own food locally. Soon, so are we.

CNN Video

At least one individual has espoused growing food in cities! On simcity arco-type, hydroponic, skyscraping towers!

Voting

The two-party system does not function. Neither candidate has the capacity to address the real problems this country faces. $9 trillion national debt. A looming energy crunch. Inflation and a dollar that is being rejected around the world.

McCain and Obama both stand for the same thing: incompetence. Neither has even a partial grasp of the root causes of these problems. Instead, the media focus on what Obama's wife is wearing, or where McCain ate dinner. None of this shit matters!

The only candidates of any actual intelligence are Ralph Nader, Bobb Barr, Dennis Kucinich, and, of course, Ron Paul. When most people hear what these guys have to say, they like it and tend to agree. Yet, they don't vote for them. Why?

I hear people all the time saying, "yeah I love Ron Paul's ideas, but he'll never get elected." Then they say, "I'm just going to vote for Obama so McCain doesn't get elected." Or, "I'm just going to vote for McCain some Obama doesn't get elected."

What kind of bullshit is this?! Just vote for the least worst candidate? This is pathetic. The system is broken. People end up voting for people they don't even want. And they don't vote for the people they do want.

Of course they're not going to get elected–you're not voting for them! Saying, for example, "Bob Barr won't win," is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Since your vote barely counts at all anyway, you might as well vote for the person you want.

Excellent clip below.

How to Write

What my word processor looks like:




The word processor is called WriteRoom (DarkRoom for Windows). The border visualizations are from G-Force.

Ron Paul

The Internet is changing EVERYTHING.

Why does the corporate media fear Ron Paul?

Mushrooms to Save the Planet

Mycologist Paul Stamets studies the mycelium -- and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help save the world. (17:30)

Ping Pong

Insanity!!!

Zeitgeist

Shhh... What they don't want you to know:

zeitgeistmovie.com

The Truth Shall Set You Free.

Mushroom, Mushroom Cloud, UFO Abduction

I find it interesting that mushrooms, mushroom clouds, and flying saucers (with abduction beam engaged) all share the same shape. I wonder what it means...

Top 10 Music Videos of All Time

In no particular order; comments welcome.

Kraftwerk - The Robots

Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer

Aha - Take On Me

Radiohead – Paranoid Android

Snoop Dogg – Gin 'n Juice

U2 - Numb

Nirvana – Heart-Shaped Box

Aphex Twin – Windowlicker
(Director's Cut)

ZZ Top - Legs

Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

Surprise! We're running out of oil.

Stupid humans.

Why didn't they prepare for the inevitable day of peak oil production by switching to other forms of energy ahead of time?

Shortage fears push oil futures near $140

Zenn Cars

Electric Cars are here.

With one hand, plug it into a regular AC outlet to charge overnight.

With the other hand, give the finger to Big Oil.

http://www.zenncars.com/

Unity

Album artwork from a psytrance artist I just discovered.

Expect Change

The Oil Age

The era of cheap and abundant oil is over. We have crossed the threshold into ever-increasing gas prices.

We are now on the slippery slope of depletion of oil supply. Our current way of life will soon be rapidly superseded by a novel paradigm.


Now is the time to adopt new habits, seek out sustainable energy, and brace yourself for immense change.

This is not a test; I repeat: this is not a test.

The future remains bright.

The Global Supercomputer

This blog combined with my iPhone will allow me to contribute 'spare CPU cycles' from my mind to the the global mind, the Internet. (for example, when waiting for the subway)

Oil, Energy, & Food

While we're bitching about high gas prices, the people of the Third World are going hungry, thanks to a confluence of factors including soaring oil prices, U.S. subsidies to corn farmers for ethanol, and global warming.

A global food shortage, not to mention an energy crisis, was forecast years ago, vis-á-vis Peak Oil.  In case you haven't heard, there is a finite amount of the black stuff in the earth, and we've already burned up half of it.  The first half was easy to get; the last half is a lot trickier.  And our whole civilization is built upon the availability of cheap oil.

We Fill Our Tanks While They Can't Fill Their Stomachs

Peak Oil

Hello World!

This is my first blog post.