new bio technologies

ahem ahem, a few years earlier than I expected..
print me a heart and a set of arteries

evil robot lord

After some quality internet time, this is what I get:

Your Birthdate: December 25

You excel at anything difficult or high tech. In other words, you’re a total (brilliant) geek. It’s difficult for you to find people worth spending time with. Which is probably why you’ll take over the world with your evil robots! Your strength: Your unfailing logic Your weakness: Loving machines more than people Your power color: Tan Your power symbol: Pi Your power month: July

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

another illusion

It’s freaky. It’s not an animated gif. Try different viewing distances.

root of all evil

Richard Dawkins created, what I believe to be, a brilliant documentary about religion and it’s effect on humanity. Channel 4 (is that based in the U.K. ?) aired the documentary and has several pages on it’s web site about the two part documentary. Some of the people you hear on the documentary make you cringe. I almost withdrew with disbelief, not because I heard about religious fundamentalism for the first time, but because of one more affirmation of something that I believe is already happening in the U.S. and elsewhere. It’s truly absurd that we keep pointing at the middle-east as a prime example of religious zealotry, completely ignoring our own backyards and what’s brewing there.

Each part is about 45 minutes, suitable for airing on the one-hour time slots on American TV. Surprising thing though, is that I haven’t heard of or read about it being aired anywhere on American TV. Maybe my googling for it is not enough research.

If you want to watch it, the two video files are available as bittorrent downloads. They’re avi files encoded in divx, so you’ll need a divx capable media player.
part 1 on mininova
part 2 on mininova

If you consider yourself a rational animal and like rational pursuits, then you’ll like this documentary.

Richard Dawkins is the same person that authored The Selfish Gene.

Thanks to Lispmeister for pointing the documentary out.

What I would like to see is Richard talk with folks from the Baha’i Blog. They seem religious and rational enough to warrant a debate.

PS: If you know me personally and/or would like a copy of the video, let me know, I’ll burn you a copy. I’m probably transgressing all known legal boundaries on video distribution. But hey, it’s a worthy cause. If you know I am doing so, let me know and I’ll cease and desist.

lonely rocket

lonely rocket

Originally uploaded by yewco.

I came across this picture on flickr.
Amazing TinTin-ery.
Reminded me so much of my childhood days tucked away with a TinTin in my hands.
Two years ago, a friend of mine surprised me by taking me to a cafe in Manhattan dedicated to Tin Tin and Tin Tin art.
The cafe is Petite Abeille Restaurant — 466 Hudson St. (about 3 blocks south of Christopher St.).
Was mighty cool of her.

BTW, the rocket first appeared on “destination moon“.
Update: Apparently there was a play put on by the Young Vic production group.