See the final bulletin for an explanation / excuse / whatever. And stay tuned for a new series of entries, hell maybe even a new subsite, to be called EAT.ME! — which will deal with many aspects of devouring aliens, animals, vegetables, ourselves, brains, rocks, robots, etc.
" London is full of chickens on electric spits, / Cooking in windows where the public pass. / This, say the chickens, is their Auschwitz, / And all poultry eaters are psychopaths. " —Peter Porter
Or, how fleas in 14th century Tuscany provoked the development of modern institutions of discipline and social control, like the prison... among other good stuff. And maybe how such social controls can be reverse-engineered.
Noted: Cartome and Cryptome, superb info logs; PCL Maps, pointing to many map sites; Earth's Active Volcanos, including the ice volcanos of Michigan; and TimeTravelFund, for cheap time travel into the far future. And the aliens have answered.
Also Seen: Operation RATS (Retrograde Activities and Treachery System) -- The Eyeballing Series: US targets -- Hot Commie-On-Commie Action! -- Caspian Sea tracker: "The Forging of Pipelineistan" -- Clown Posse (costumed terrorists) -- 9/11 etc maps -- RockingChair Planet -- SEC probe imperils Cheney -- SUPREME COURT RULES EARNINGS SHOULD BE PROTECTED AS ART
But enough of this fun. I've decided to finally shut down SkeptiNews, turn this log into my home page, and otherwise simplify my site structure a bit. The redesign is underway. Stay tuned.
RECENT SONG: (Here Is) MY DREAM OF YOU · [hot cha-cha]
Here is a tangerine, here is a magazine
Here is your silver fork, here is a side of pork
[chorus:] Here is my dream, here is my dream, of you
Here is the end of day, here is your Tanqueray
Here is your silver knife, here is a wasted life · [chorus]
[bridge:] I dream of you and I want to cry
And now I need a new alibi, alibi · [instrumental]
Here is your first unborn, here are the clothes you've worn
Here is your silver spoon, scooping-out rage and ruin [chorus]
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Gosh, vegetarianism even makes the cover of TIME! And see what the Mad Cowboy reveals about the dreadful stuff that's fed to livestock -- are poultry fed the same crap? Maybe flesh-eaters should stick to cooking and eating aliens, eh?
"Animal rights means recognizing that animals are living sentient creatures with interests of their own, not objects to be exploited by humans." Does this mean that animals, insects, bacteria et al don't have a right to eat humans? It's So Unnatural (When Plants Eat People), eh?
The narcissism of vegetarianism: "Oh, I can't eat steak like the nine other people at the table! Not special old me! Make the waiter come back so I can grill him for 25 minutes on whether there's any chicken stock in the wax used to coat the cantaloupe!" —Christopher Caldwell
How to Cast out Demons in the Name of Jesus — This page is intensely practical. It contains suggestions and principles for the ministry of exorcism, intended for use only by Christians truly devoted to Jesus Christ.
MindBombing and RayMutilation and Primordality and MarsFace and BigFoot and How2Thug and BadHopi and J'lahn.111 and other good stuff.
STONEHENGE JULY 4TH 2002 — A huge and quite amazing formation is on the ground next to the ancient Stonehenge monument. The field in which it now stands was empty the previous day, making it quite certain that it had appeared overnight.
Rock is out and rap is in as the Devil's music of choice, according to a a satanic cult leader who claims to be in contact with the Dark Lord himself!
The Rise of Laptop Techno —
First software turned the computer into a musical instrument. Now who's in control: the CPU or the musician? and Electronica's Secret History — 6 machines that changed the music world.
Web Music: Scarlatti sonatas
and BBC 3 and LyricFM Ireland and CBC 2 and KING Classic and Virgin Classic
and XLNC Classic and KBPS Classic
and WFMT
Classic and WQXR and WGUC and KPLU Jazz and WGMC Jazz and WWYK
Teachers
murder music and Musicians are
smarter and Let's filk
about food
safety! and Musical Hands and RipCast and Coltrane and Latitsia and MetaSynth and game music and other neat music stuff.
An outdoor BBQ-concert this afternoon down in beautiful Marin County, at Rancho Nicasio between Point Reyes and Skywalker Ranch, no fireworks but some fine music, yeah! And no flying saucers in sight... Well, maybe a few...
UPDATE: It was a fine show, a fine band, a good BBQ (if a bit pricey), a great venue, all that stuff. But few UFOs The best song: YESTERDAY WAS JUDGEMENT DAY (How Did You Do?) -- it's time to pay the alligator, folks.
Now try some squirrel fishing and go back to driving school. Then you can kill everyone or play the game of life, whatever turns you on.
This is the turquoise-covered skull I mentioned. The sucker is over 1.5 feel across and nearly 2 feet long. Check it out.
Be sure to experience This Modern World before it's taken away. It will be, y'know, if W's gang have their way. Bother.
Now see some manifestos: The
US Declaration of Independence and the
UN Declaration of Human Rights and the
Declaration of Principles Concerning Activities Following the Detection of Extraterrestrial Intelligence and the Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace and the
Declarations of the Rights of Man (1789) and the Declaration of the Mars Society and the Declaration of Legal Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space. Now declare something yourself, eh?
Hindus seek online blessings - Millions of Hindu gods and goddesses are now online - accessible by just a click of a mouse.
With religion going high-tech, devotees in India and abroad are utilising the services of the net rather than standing in a line in a temple to offer prayer rituals.
PUZZLING "RELICS" DUG UP IN ARIZONA STIR SCIENTISTS - Announcement was made here today of the excavation near Tucson of cast lead swords, crosses and other objects bearing Latin and Hebrew inscriptions which, taken at their face value, are held to mean that Roman Jews crossed the Atlantic in the Dark Ages, penetrated to Arizona and founded a kingdom which lasted from about 700 A.D. to 900 A.D.
RAPTURE INDEX - You could say the Rapture index is a Dow Jones Industrial Average of end time activity, but I think it would be better if you viewed it as prophetic speedometer. The higher the number, the faster we're moving towards the occurrence of pre-tribulation rapture.
Bible And Apocalypse - The biggest book of the summer is about the end of the world. It's also a sign of our troubled times. Anything for a buck, eh?
OK, so you've been kicked out of your apartment or condo or the garage or old bedroom and your parents' place and you need somewhere to live that you can decorate or mess up any way you want. So you're considering a manufactured house, AKA a modular or mobile home. They're cheap, they're easy, and they're straightforward to get into. Here's how!
Update: I fixed the page-address problem. Read the whole entry here.
1. Come on Baby have some fun,
TRAVEL EXTREME in the morning sun,
drinking till the morning rise,
that's what Meikel does advice!
Driving In Italy: "One of the tricks the locals seemed to employ was to only look straight ahead, never back, or not even to the side..."
Mystery Spots: "Mysterious spots pockmark the tourist landscape, promising to show Nature and Physics gone berserk."
English Culinary Atrocites: "England without a doubt, offers the most execrable collection of edible dreck you are likely to encounter anywhere in the world."
And be sure to see the MemePool Travel Archives
"Conspiracy theories have too many moving parts, rely on people to perform with superhuman competence to maintain secrecy, and studying them is mostly a waste of time." Bryan Preston
Of course, just because weird conspiracies (and theories) abound, doesn't mean that people aren't conspiring, or that they are necessarily incompetent. But they probably are, eh? Right. (Pay no attention to my left hand.)
The Four 34 Gospels -- Diversity and Division Among the Earliest Christians. "Every one of these gospels was deemed true and sacred by at least some early Christians. But do they have any value today? Can they tell us anything new about the historical Jesus? Does the sheer abundance of gospels shed light on the activities of the earliest church?"
Whew. Been busy lately. And it's not getting any easier. But now it's documented -- see my journal entries for MOVING and Manufactured Homes For Dummies and of course the new JOURNALS: Index page. WARNING: Some of these are only slightly-edited raw audio-diary notes, very chain-of-consciousness, eh? How I REALLY think...
And see the previous entries, y'hear?
SkeptiLog AGOG! · (Agog, Agog...)
This is the turquoise-covered skull I mentioned.