CORPORATE ESPIONAGE

Warner Bros. recruiting students to spy on file sharers

Warner Bros. Entertainment UK are providing internships to students with a computer/IT related degree to be actively part in reducing piracy on the web. The internship at £17,500 (around $26,000) a year, will not only give these students an insider knowledge into corporations fighting copyrighted file sharing, but an opportunity to potentially spy on their fellow students.

CARBONARI cybugs

 

Cyborg Insects Take Flight

DARPA is funding a good deal of cyborg insect research for surveillance purposes.  DARPA’s goal is to create cyborg insects that can fly at least 100 meters from their controller and land within 5 meters of a target, then stay put until commanded to leave.

Free Flying Cyborg Beetles

"Creating cybernetic insect spies and rescuers involves implanting electrodes into beetles while they are still pupae. As the beetle matures, their capacity to carry electronics on their head increases, but it’s quite a battle to get devices small enough to be carried by the bugs. Batteries are heavy, and the beetles still haven’t been saddled with GPS trackers, cameras, microphones, or any of the various gizmos a spy might require."  Is the same possible of humans?

"Still, it’s pretty cool that electric pulses applied to vague areas of beetle brains can essentially turn them into insect-sized beasts of burden. The next course of action should be to see if the Berkeley team can get their wireless flying bugs to navigate an obstacle course reliably."  Pretty fucked up.

Spell your name with "Monster Letters"

Spell your name with "Monster Letters"

 

OCCULT

Re: Weishaupt and the occult

It is the mystics and occultists of his era that he had disdain for - i.e. the Masons playing at being Templars; the Rosicrucians fleecing people out of their money for crucibles and elixirs and promising gold from lead; the Swedenborgians professing contact with spirits. To Weishaupt, it was the wisdom of the ancients that was authentic - the ancient mysteries, Pythagoras, Plato, the Gnostics, and even the more eclectic teachings from the Gherbers and the Parsees, the Gymnosophists, the Priests of Isis and the Mysteries of Eleusis.

On the Fire Cults of the Parsees and Zoaroastrians etc., he was no doubt influenced by a particular set of books published in the early 1770s. M. Anquetil-Duperron went to India and wrote of what he found still extant of the fire cult of the Parsees. It was read by a lot of people and it probably captured Weishaupt’s imagination as well. Before the Duperron publications, authentic knowledge of Zoroastrianism on the European continent was almost non-existent.

And even though he had reverence for ancient knowledge, it was only that - reverence and respect. You asked me in the email if there was evidence of operative occultism in the Illuminati; I said no; and there wasn’t. The Templar Strict Observance and the Rosicrucians and the Swedenborgians and the Martinists and the Illumines of France did, however. And this is what Weishaupt and his rationalists disliked and fought against. He thought they were all scam artists, zealous fools, and/or Jesuit-infiltrated.

Perhaps if the final grades in the Illuminati had been able to evolve and mature before the Order was suppressed, some of Weishaupt’s fascination with the Fire Cults would have been translated into tangible rituals for the initiates - but this didn’t occur. The final Grade even (of Man-King Docetist), was passed on to a select few of initiates. They were only given the chance to read it. It was akin to a philosophy paper and represented ideas only. It was a mixture of left-wing Wolffian philosophy, gnosticism, and the doctrine of metempsychosis.

All the hardcore occult initiatory groups today get their teachings and rituals directly from those 18th century rivals of Weishaupt and his Order - not from the Illuminati. Strict Observance, Golden and Rosy Cross, Elus Cohen, Martinists, Swedenborgians and the Illumines of Avignon. What the OTO and the Golden Dawn engage in is precisely what the latter groups invented and had already perfected - an amalgamation of them all.

SPAGHETTI WESTERN

Tools of the CARBONARI

ROPID Robot Runs, Skips, and Jumps to Your Voice Commands

Kondo Robots – Now With Awesome Hands

Motoman Robot Does It All in Videos

Rituals

Adam Weishaupt had grand illusions about clothing the higher mysteries of his Order in fire worship. “The Order, in the higher grades, will be called again: the Cult of Fire, the Fire Order, or the Order of the Parsees,” he wrote to his disciple Cato-Zwack on 6 Pharavardin 1779. “The ultimate aim of the Order is for the Light [or Enlightenment] to blaze bright; we fight against the darkness; this is the Cult of Fire,” Weishaupt reiterated (Einige Originalschriften des Illuminatenordens, pp. 330-1).

In hindsight, it’s obvious that, for the Illuminati May 1st had significance as the day in which the “cult of fire” was/is celebrated throughout Europe and Britain as Walpurgisnacht and Beltane. I don’t think it is accident that they chose the date. I also don’t think it is accident for May Day to have become a sacred revolutionary holiday for socialists, communists and anarchists. The Illuminati were the forebears of these, and acknowledged as such by the likes of Louis Blanc, Buonarroti and his secret societies (the Sublimes Maîtres Parfaits, Adelphi and Philadelphes), Speshnev and the Petrashevsky circle, and no doubt the Spartacist League

While he was beaten and interrogated in his prison cell, Buonarotti was able to organize the Sublimes Maitres Parfaits, a Masonic organization that began to exert influence on a new generation of revolutionaries by the 1810s.

TOUCH

PhotoelasticTouch Combines 3D Shapes With Touchscreens

 

Lumino Adds Third Dimension to Microsoft Surface (Video)

Genetically Modified

 

Genetically Modified Rice and Corn To Grow in China, then the World

The short term benefits for China could be enormous. Most of the country’s rice is grown on small farms, and these local farmers are exposed to a variety of pesticides to maintain their crops. Bt rice will drastically reduce the amount of needed pesticides and may relieve the need to flood fields. (Flooding is partially used to reduce the prevalence of parasites.) Phytase corn will not only allow livestock to more easily receive needed nutrients from feed, it will eliminate some of the phosphorus waste present in pig and cow manure. Again, it’s hard to argue with increased food supplies and decreased environmental impact.
Yet there are many who do find the use of GM crops troublesome. Many Europeans question the safety of foodstuffs that have only been around for a few years. Most of the plants that we eat have been “tested” by thousands of years of cultivation and consumption. As these crops are designed to be more successful, they can quickly come to dominate and replace the natural versions in the wild. Once enough countries go GM, they say, the rest of the world will become GM through the natural dispersion of seeds.
Others point out that GM crops are the intellectual property of the developers, which have almost exclusively been large chemical corporations. Farmers are (generally) not allowed to plant their own left over seeds from GM crops, but instead must purchase seed from the developer. This is seen as an enforcement of the patent rights of the company, but there is concern over most of the world’s seed supply being under the control of a few business institutions.

Genetically Modified Flowers That Can Smell Like Anything

Clark and his colleagues are first looking to restore the “lost” fragrances of many flowers that have been breed for other characteristics in the last century. Eventually, however, the same genes that could return a flower to its ancestral scent could also be used to create entirely artificial smells. Flowers can be made to smell like other species, other foods, maybe even inorganic compounds.

 

Artificial Meat Could Be On Your Table in 5 Years

 

MOD Cosmos

Astronomers Confirm Einstein's Theory of Relativity and Accelerating Cosmic Expansion

ScienceDaily (Mar. 25, 2010
Scientists need to know how the formation of clumps of matter evolved in the history of the Universe to determine how the gravitational force, which holds matter together, and dark energy, which pulls it apart by accelerating the expansion of the Universe, have affected them. "Dark energy affects our measurements for two reasons. First, when it is present, galaxy clusters grow more slowly, and secondly, it changes the way the Universe expands, leading to more distant -- and more efficiently lensed -- galaxies.

After Growth Spurt, Supermassive Black Holes Spend Half Their Lives Veiled in Dust

"As a result of the violent, messy collision, the black hole also remains obscured behind a 'veil' of dust for between 10 million and 100 million years," said Priyamvada Natarajan, professor of astronomy at Yale and one of the paper's authors. After that time the dust is blown away to reveal a brightly shining quasar -- the central region of a galaxy with an extremely energetic, supermassive black hole at its center -- that lasts for another 100 million years, the team found.

Bestial

MOD

Firing on all neurons: Where consciousness comes from

Consciousness is one of neuroscience's long-standing mysteries. At its most basic, it is the simple question of why we become aware of some thoughts or feelings, while others lurk unnoticed below conscious perception. Is there a single module in the brain, a "seat of consciousness" if you like, that is responsible for awareness? Or is it a result of more complicated activity across a number of brain regions? Solve this, and we may be a little closer to explaining the more esoteric aspects of our complex internal experience.

Now one theory that claims to do just that is rapidly gaining weight, with strong evidence from research such as Laureys's to back up its predictions. The idea, dubbed the global workspace theory, was first floated in 1983 by Bernard Baars of The Neuroscience Institute in San Diego, California. He proposed that non-conscious experiences are processed locally within separate regions of the brain, like the visual cortex. According to this theory, we only become conscious of this information if these signals are broadcast to an assembly of neurons distributed across many different regions of the brain - the "global workspace" (see diagram) - which then reverberates in a flash of coordinated activity. The result is a mental interpretation of the world that has integrated all the senses into a single picture, while filtering out conflicting pieces of information (see "Neural conflicts").

Stanislas Dehaene of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) in Gif sur Yvette and Jean-Pierre Changeux of the Pasteur Institute in Paris updated Baars's model with the latest findings on the brain's wiring. Dehaene's group had already shown that distant areas of the brain are connected to each other and, importantly, that these connections are especially dense in the prefrontal, cingulate and parietal regions of the cortex, which are involved in processes like planning and reasoning.

Will thinking machines need bodies?

If our ability for abstract thought is closely tied to our physical selves (see main story), will intelligent machines also need bodies?

It is a question that is being investigated. Roboticist Josh Bongard at the University of Vermont in Burlington says that the physical bodies of robots and the way that they interact with the environment might be key to creating the capability for intelligent, abstract thought. For a start, Cynthia Breazeal at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her team has already created anthropomorphic robots that use knowledge of their own bodies to infer the mental states of humans

Mind over matter? How your body does your thinking

Lakoff reckons that the volunteers are making use of two sets of metaphors for imagining numbers: that up is more and down is less, and that right is more and left is less. Such metaphors would have been learned and hard-wired into the brain at a young age. A child watching a glass of water being filled up, or building blocks piled up, will learn that increasing height means greater quantity, for example. Separate brain regions that process quantity and height could then have been linked up in the growing brain, he says, leading to a hard-wired understanding of the metaphor that up is more. Similarly, right-handed people may learn to link right with more because that hand is dominant for them.

What's not clear from Loetscher's experiment, however, is if eye movements are driving the number selection, or if the number selection triggers particular eye movements.

To probe whether movements can drive thought, Daniel Casasanto of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, turned to the metaphors that we use to speak of our moods. "We can hardly help mapping them onto a vertical, spatial schema, with the good end 'up' and the bad end 'down'," says Casasanto. "We talk of being high on life, or our mood taking an upswing, or feeling down in the dumps."

"The brain sends an endocrine signal to the pituitary gland. This makes protein hormones which reaches the ovaries and testes," Plant says.

It all begins with a kiss -- the KiSS 1 gene, which produces a protein in the hypothalamus. When the protein connects with its receptor, the GPR54 gene, puberty begins.

Dr. Plant says this is the first real handle we've had on the issue of the trigger. With wide variation, that trigger is pulled sometime between ages 10 and 16. But early or late puberty can pose developmental problems, like behavior problems and low self-esteem. Pediatricians have to treat these children with either precocious or delayed puberty.

Around 1965, a schism developed between the peacock mods (also known as smooth mods), who were less violent and always wore the latest expensive clothes, and the hard mods (also known as gang mods), who were identified by their shorter hair and more working-class image.^[7] Also known as lemonheads and peanuts, these hard mods became commonly known as skinheads by about 1968.^[8] Their shorter hair may have come about for practical reasons, since long hair can be a liability in industrial jobs and a disadvantage in streetfights. Skinheads may also have cut their hair short in defiance of the more middle class hippie culture popular at the time.^[9]

Christ Scientists

experimentum crucis	'crucial experiment'	Literally 'experiment of the cross'. A decisive test of a scientific theory.

QUOTES an' ANECDOTES

one of the foremost
philosophers and thinkers of the 20th century, Spanish philosopher
George Santayana. That quote is known as Santayana's Law of Repetitive Consequences.

"Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
-- George Santayana

There's Something in the Air

Cellphone radiation affects cells in living humans

RADIATION from cellphones is too weak to heat biological tissue or break chemical bonds in cells, but the radio waves they emit may still affect cell behaviour.

"Our study suggests that it is possible that mobile phone radiation alters the expression of some proteins in living humans," says Dariusz Leszczynski at the Finnish Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, in Helsinki.

Fact or Fiction?: Cell Phones Can Cause Brain Cancer

"Long term and frequent use of cell phones which receive and emit radio frequency may be associated with an increased risk of brain tumors," Herberman told lawmakers. "I find the old adage 'better to be safe than sorry' to be very apt to this situation."

Hoover, on the other hand, insisted that the pervasive technology was safe, testifying that "its effect on the body appears to be insufficient to cause genetic damage.

A post "That's because people who know what they're talking about, know that cancer is caused when some agent breaks chemical bonds in DNA, and thereby causes the broken DNA strands to mutate. And microwaves just don't work that way." True?

International Superhighway

A map of connected continents, where you could drive from Patagonia to the Cape of Good Hope.

High Speed Trains To Run From Beijing to London

The Biggest Infrastructure Project in the World. Ever.

Spaghetti Western tunes

 "At The End Of The Day" by Amon Tobin

Down by Brian Jonestown Massacre : Trying to flee the inescapable Muerta.

Computer World by Kraftwerk: Some hackin job.

Love in the Cemetery by Lord Kitchener : Sunny summer chase in Jamaica.
Valet by Nora Dean; Woman a Love in the Night Time by Lord Spoon; Do Re Mi by Mighty Vikings; ( All from Trojan Calypso Box Set)

(Trojan MOD reggae box set) "Ali Baba" by John Holt: for Arabian Adventure, Mon;
"Gun Man coming to Town" by Heptones;
"Fat Man" by Derrick Morgan;

(Trojan SKA box set) "007 (ShantyTown) by Desmond Dekker: Espionage in the slums;
"Want Me Cock" by Owen & Leon Silveras: sexin on the beach;
"One Eyed Giant" by Baba Brooks & his Band: battle with a Colossal Cyclops in the tropics;
"Blam blam Fever" by the Valentines

Music From Bolivia by Nina Dimitri, Julio Lavayén Frias, Martin Schaefer & Marco Zappa
the whole album is reminiscent of Rebekkah Del Rio

(Bossa Nova 2CD on Azzurra records)

"Don't Play with my Heart" by Beres Hammond (Rocksteady)

(Trojan instrumentals) "Tons of Gold" by Val Bennett: great horns for stealing bricks of gold out a hi tech vault.

(The Roots of Chicha - Psychedelic chicha of peru on Barbes Records)

After Effects

Adobe After Effects - Abstract Wave Tutorial part 2

Photoshop

how to: change color of smoke brush in photoshop

Photoshop tutorial - Elaborate Abstract Vortex Made Simple

Photo Shop - How To Make Abstract Color

PS: Design Atmospheric Shine Wallpaper

Awesome Magic Looking Effect- Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop CS3 | Beam Tutorial

Photoshop Tutorial ||| Fire Brushes

SPY

Make a Simple Laser Communicator

ANNIE & JUMP

SEA MONKEYS
Fish With Transparent Head Filmed

M0D

How To Time Travel

Who lives in the eleventh dimension? - Parallel Universes - BBC science

Learning how to lucid dream

Webtutorials

Graffiti wildstyle
after effects 6.5 pro + trapcode particular

Adobe After Effects with Video CoPilot's Evolution, Riot Gear and Trapcode's Form and Particular

Sound reactive visual

Chromosphere by SQNY

Spaghetti Western

Spaghetti Western

Hard times in Mexico

Drinking and driving in India: party on, yaar

Ukraine's bloody history, unearthed

No more steering wheels - drive by joystick!

Multifunctional Polymer Neutralizes Both Biological and Chemical Weapons

ScienceDaily (Mar. 22, 2010) — In an ongoing effort to mirror the ability of biological tissues to respond rapidly and appropriately to changing environments, scientists from the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine have synthesized a single, multifunctional polymer material that can decontaminate both biological and chemical toxins. They described the findings recently in Biomaterials.

Worlds first controllable robotic samara monocopter MAV, University of Maryland's Ulrich flyer : the vehicle, invented at the University of Maryland, Aerospace Engineering Autonomous Vehicle Laboratory and Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Center, is the smallest and most capable to date as it meets most of the challenges set forth by DARPA's nano-air-vehicle program. - (sharp bladed design will be a deadly remote controll ninja star)

The chamber could be sized to accommodate large objects, such as works of art and even the Shroud of Turin, which some believe to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, Rowe said. He acknowledged, however, that it would take a significant amount of data to convince museum directors, art conservators, and others that the new method causes no damage to such priceless objects

UV Rays Shed New Light on the Hope Diamond’s Mysterious Red Glow

Apparently the original King Croesus preferred the real thing -- and would probably not have been pleased that an undisclosed number of objects representing his 6th century BCE reign have been stolen from a Turkish museum and replaced with fakes.

'What price for those diamonds?' asks the new poster and postcard campaign launched by Amnesty International France, linking the arms trade with human rights abuses in the trade in natural resources. A further image focuses on the trade in timber:

In Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, published 1979, Douglas Hofstadter uses the acronym GOD, 'GOD Over Djinn'. As a genie explains to Achilles, GOD stands for GOD Over Djinn, remarking that "GOD can never be fully expanded." In the German translation it is rendered as "ZEUS ewig über Schinn", meaning "Zeus eternally over Djinn".

• The GNU Hurd project is named with a mutually recursive acronym: "Hurd" stands for "Hird of Unix-Replacing Daemons", and "Hird" stands for "Hurd of Interfaces Representing Depth."

• The GNUBrain project is another mutually recursive acronym: "Brain" stands for "Brian relates any independent node" and "Brian" stands for "Brain implements a network".

Recursive acronym