Sociobiology

It's EO Wilson-time!!!!
This guy has filled in some more of the links between what we think and why we think it, namely through sociobiology. Basically its about the pressure of social behaviour on evolution, or how life adapts to dealing with groups. It's something which is really present everywhere (except in solitary species), and which has massive implications on how to view and describe humans and human behaviour.






Wilson says he never got out of his bug-period and likes ants. And so do I, what a surprise. They are really fascinating. For some.

Industrial fruit

The secret life of machines is a series of shows, which explain how things used to work in what seem the seventies but are actually the late eighties. Of course now we fly our hovercars and use the internet. But stroll through an antiqueshop, and you will find some of the appliances explained here, like the video recorder, fax machine and telephone, and even some your grandparents used to gain status in their neighbourhood like the vacuum cleaner, and the refrigerator. Its an old show is what i'm saying. But nonetheless both entertaining and informative. Like all good things in life.

Here are some more episodes.

And if you dont like sitting through those stupid videos here is the cartoonversion of the same thing.

And if you are now really turned on about wanting to know how stuff works, there's How Stuff Works.

Links

James Burke made a fascinating documentary series called Connections. All in all it spans 40 episodes of near an hour, and its all about how things change, and the serendipity that's involved in this. Here is the first episode,with the first series here.

PSATIW

People suck and this is why:









Yes you suck. You. Suck.

(Apologies to any non-human intelligence interpreting the previous words)

Whatnow?

Politics:

Alternative 3


Electromagnetic warfare


Trials Of Henry Kissinger


Science:

Horizon: Nice guys finish first


The pleasure of finding things out


Fractals: Colors of infinity


Yeah, some videos. I'm lazy, go figure.

How to know how to be perfect

If you are reading this you are probably not very successful or happy. Just a guess. Lucky for you there is a way you can change. All you need to do is put all your negativism and cynicism aside and do what this site tells you. Trust me, it's that easy. And if you don't manage to change, remember, it's your own fault. Now go get 'em.

Vital Gore

Gore Vidal is a writer and political commentator. He is both well informed and cynical, a combination of qualities I can appreciate. Here is an interview with Alex Jones. It seems they cornered Vidal in some alley, which I guess is supposed to give the whole thing some underground feel. Quite weird actually.








I know, it's more of the same old 'the world sucks and this is why'-crap. I also get tired of it. Next post will feature some mindless entertainment again. But I must say that the more people I can find who agree with me, the better I feel. And isn't that what life is all about?

Ambidextrous

Dexter, boy genius, one of the Cartoon Cartoon characters. More of them later. And no, it's not stooopid.








And lot's more.

Intermission

Docus about:

Bill Hicks


Life Of Brian


Thats all for now, medialeeches.

Puppets

The Muppets, by Jim Henson are pretty cool. Of course we were brand-fed with it by propagandistic child-indoctrinator Sesame Street (or Sesamstraat if you live near me). That pinballmachine producing some number still haunts me to this day, as do the various news episodes of Kermit the Frog (or Kermit de kikker). And lets not forget Bert & Ernie, they are in my head forever too, talking about glasses of water. Jim Henson is personally responsible for all of this. All the puppets I have seen in my life were either handcrafted by mr Henson, or at least operated by him. For this reason I am still quite confused about things like the muppet show. So praise be upon him, and by him I mean that Henson guy.