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Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:32:19 GMT

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The Wit of Steven Wright

Last night I played a blank tape at full blast. The mime next door went nuts.

If a person with multiple personalities threatens suicide, is that considered a hostage situation?

If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?

So what's the speed of dark?

Why don't they just make mouse-flavored cat food?

Why do they sterilize needles for lethal injections?

When a man talks dirty to a woman, its sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 per minute.

Isn't Disney World a people trap operated by a mouse?

What would a chair look like if your knees bent the otherway?

Why do scientists call it research when looking for something new?

If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?

Why do we wash bath towels? Aren't we clean when we usethem?

What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious?

Do married people live longer than single people, or does it just SEEM longer?

Since Americans throw rice at weddings, do Asians throw hamburgers?

Tags: funny, wit, humor, questions

15 Quotes by Famous Atheists

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:17:14 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Bertrand Russell:

“You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world. I say quite deliberately that the Christian religion, as organized in its churches, has been and still is the principal enemy of moral progress in the world.”

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15 Quotes By Famous Atheists

9. Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. — Denis Diderot

15. It’s an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don’t try to make it posthumous. — Gloria Steinem

5. Faith means not wanting to know what is true. — Friedrich Nietzsche

8. I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. — Frank Lloyd Wright

3. All thinking men are atheists. — Ernest Hemingway

11. The whole thing is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life. — Sigmund Freud

2. I don’t believe in God. My god is patriotism. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life. — Andrew Carnegie

4. Lighthouses are more helpful then churches. — Benjamin Franklin

Tags: atheism, bible, christianity, god, life, religion, society

The Future of Gaming

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:45:40 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I have tried to capture some hints about the future of gaming. As the author remarks: "For now, the only way to predict the future of gaming is to predict that all predictions will be wrong."

Yet, it seems that in the not so far future, games are going to deeply affect the way we perceive our world. Especially the younger generations will be affected, and to some extent it is already happening. It seems that eventually games will not only affect our perception of the world, they WILL become a substantial part of our world.

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Where brilliant thinkers like da Vinci, H. G. Wells, and Mandelbrot inspired much of the world around us today, the world of tomorrow, the very world where we will be spending the later years of our lives, is now being imagined inside the young minds of today’s gamers

When SimCity founder Will Wright introduced his latest project, Spore, demonstrating the next generation organic content builder at the TED conference in 2007, he not only turned heads, but radically shifted the thinking of the entire gaming industry.

Jane McGonigal, a game designer that MIT Technology Review named as one of the top 35 innovators changing the world, and an expert at blurring traditional boundaries, focuses on how the games we play can change the way we experience the real world.

At WIRED Magazine’s 2007 NextFest, special headbands measuring brainwaves served at the controllers for a game called “Brain Ball.

Smart Goggles, a pair of glasses designed to capture and record everything a person sees in a day.

Tags: gaming, future, mind

Mutiny among USA Generals? Revolt over Iran?

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 21:59:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "KOLKO: Many in the US military think Bush and Cheney are out of control. They are rebelling against Bush and Cheney. Washington Post reporter Dana Priest recently said in an interview that she believed the US military would revolt and refuse to fly missions against Iran if the White House issued such orders.

"CENTCOM commander Admiral Fallon reportedly thwarted Cheney's wish to sent a third additional aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf. One paper wrote that he "vowed privately there would be no war against Iran as long as he was chief of CENTCOM."

"Lt. Gen. Wright, in charge of US forces in Japan, told AP last week that the Iraq war had weakened American forces in the face of any potential conflict with China. He was quoted as saying, "Are we in trouble? It depends on the scenario. But you have to be concerned about the small number of our forces and the age of our forces."

...Spiegel

Mutiny in the ranks - at the top!!!

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'Many in the US Military Think Bush and Cheney Are Out of Control'

In an interview with SPIEGEL ONLINE, the Amsterdam-based military historian Gabriel Kolko talks about the prospect of war with Iran and argues that many in the US military now view the White House as being 'out of control.'

The American military is stretched to the limit. They are losing both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Everything is being sacrificed for these wars: money, equipment in Asia, American military power globally, etc

Where and how can they fight yet another?

The Pentagon is short of money for procurement, and that is what so many people in the military bureaucracy live for.

More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.

IEDs, which cost so little to make, are defeating a military which spends billions of dollars per month. IEDS are so adaptable that each new strategy developed by the

The Israelis were also never quite able to counter IEDs

Many in the US military think Bush and Cheney are out of control

Tags: usa, iraq, mutiny, military

Things Americans don't like to talk about

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:36:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Read the whole article, it is illuminating to say the least. I thought this passage said it best:

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If you listen to a lot of conservatives, they'll tell you that the difference between them and us is that conservatives love America and liberals hate America.... They don't get it. We love America just as much as they do. But in a different Way. You see, they love America the way a 4-year-old loves her Mommy. Liberals love America like grown-ups.

To a 4-year-old, everything Mommy does is wonderful and anyone who criticizes Mommy is bad. Grown-up love means actually understanding what you love, taking the good with the bad, and helping your loved one grow. Love takes attention and work and is the best thing in the world."

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One of the oddities of the emerging media meta-narrative about Jeremiah Wright is the way it is now readily assumed by the broad range of talking heads that Wright's recent comments have only proven the charge that he is deeply "anti-American," embodied in the endlessly repeated "God damn America" sound bite.

But it's also apparent that the larger context in which Wright condemns American behavior -- the reason he shouts "God damn America" -- in fact reflects hard historical realities that Americans, and the American media especially, really don't want to talk about, let alone confront the present-day consequences thereof.

And doing so, evidently, is now proof of being "anti-American."

-- The genocide committed against Native Americans.
-- Slavery.
-- The "lynching era" and Jim Crow.
-- Sundown towns.
-- The forced incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.

Tags: history, truth, wright, religion, obama, politics, america

George's Legacy: Broken Bodies, Broken Countries. pt1

Wed, 01 Aug 2007 11:42:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Shocking but not the most shocking. More shocking is that their commander-in-chip is a coward and deserter. He was AWOL more than 30 days during war. Ironic that the warmonger president, never served but killed more Americans than any other since Vietnam.

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(Foto arriba) James Houston

(Foto arriba)

El soldado James E. Wright

Foto Lindsey Addario / Corbis.

Foto Max Becherer, New York Times.

AP.

Foto The News & Observer / Chuck Liddy.

Foto Ruth Fremson, New York Times.

WIA.

Foto Ruth Fremson, New York Times.

El actor cinematográfico Denzel Washington

Alan Jermaine Lewis.

El soldado Brandon Olson.

Edward Platt.

El especialista Edward Platt

El marine Albert Ross

David Rozelle.

Robert Shrode

Soldado amputado.

Soldado amputado

El soldado Kyle Blumenstock

Sargento Joseph Bozik de Carolina del Norte

El Secretario de la Defensa de los Estados Unidos, Donald Rumsfeld

Marines mutilados en un programa del gobierno para tenerlos ocupados.

Un soldado recibiendo la visita de antiguos voluntarios

Idem

Soldado

Pintura llamada "War President"

Tags: bush, medical

Republicans: Only Our Pastors Can Say Crazy Shit

Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:12:33 GMT

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As the wingnut chorus predictably disses Obama's eloquent speech, it's important to remember how completely ridiculous and manufactured this whole Wright "controversy" is:

Neither Jerry Falwell nor Pat Robertson ever retracted or denounced their view that America provoked the 9/11 attacks by doing things to anger God.

Well, yeah. Duh.

The Republican Party has tied itself at the hip to a whole slew of "anti-American extremists" -- people who believe that the U.S. provoked the 9/11 attacks because God wants to punish us for the evil, wicked nation we've become -- and yet there is virtual silence about these associations.

Once again, it's important to keep making the point that when you've built an entire political movement on the backs of a crazy mob of Dixiecrat Savonarolas who make outrageous hateful comments pretty much every day, you've sort of opted-out of your ability to throw stones.

Biting off more than it could chew

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 07:58:39 GMT

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A fisherman found a fish in waters off the South Coast of Grand Cayman that had swallowed another fish more than four times its size.

McPherson "Dorson" Wright's attention was drawn to an object floating on the surface nearby. The fish, aptly named the Great Swallower, was just 7.5 inches in length. The fish it had eaten measured 34 inches, which is close to three feet in length.

Mr. Wright said that normally its expected that "big fish to eat down the small fish," but this greedy little creature had a huge appetite and eyes far bigger than its belly.

"When I first saw it, I really couldn't believe my eyes," said Wright. "It had obviously just died, so I decided I had to put it in the boat and take it down to the Department of the Environment to investigate it further."

On later inspection by scientists, it was established that the fish had consumed an extremely large and aggressive "snake mackerel" that was more than four times its own length.

Tags: fish, animals, creatures, fauna

Atheist Quotes

Wed, 27 Feb 2008 22:48:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I love quotations. Click on the link for many more.

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101 Atheist Quotes

The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. - George Bernard Shaw

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. - Gene Roddenberry

To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. - Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. - Seneca the Younger

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. - Anonymous

Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends. - Woody Allen

Mile-high skyscrapers and floating cities that never were

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:01:24 GMT

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Mile-High Skyscrapers and Floating Cities That Never Were

Here's a collection of promised skylines we never got to see -- and a few that may yet come to be -- as seen from the imagined eyes of those who live there.

Left: Chicago, 2005

Few people like to work in Frank Lloyd Wright's 5,278-foot Chicago spire, The Illinois. Almost everything below the 50th floor is an elevator lobby, and almost everything above the 300th floor is perpetually covered in vomit due to the skyscraper's oscillations -- it moves in 40-foot circles at its tip.

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New Berlin, 1969

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Tokyo, 2027

"If the lights go out, that means the nuclear reactor just melted down."

It was a joke in the mountain city, a great way to greet newcomers. Except one night the lights actually did go out, and it just wasn't funny any more.

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The Arcologies, 2070

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Dubai, 2019

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Moscow, 2009

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Subversion City

if I were a pixel, I know where I would hang my boots

Reality Check: It's just a game. Or is it?

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Tsui Tower, Just Outside Ulaan Bataar, 2109

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Pyongyang, 2011

Tags: architecture

The next Guggenheim Museum

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 15:48:29 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This new museum and cultural center might open as soon as 2011.

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Next Guggenheim Museum looks like a designer UFO

The Guggenheim Museum has established a tradition of building structures to house and display art that are themselves works of art. Following the lead of the original Guggenheim in New York designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and the stunning Bilbao, Spain building by Frank Gehry, this latest design is no exception. Created by 2004 Pritzker prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid, this gorgeous metallic aircraft-like structure with crazy-shaped windows will be the new Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Vilnius, Lithuania.

If that exterior isn’t mind-bending enough, the inside promises to be equally innovative. The architect says the interior is a “canyon-like air space,” with areas designed for people to congregate, with the structure allowing for “architecturally refined communication and circulation spaces.” This is what Hadid calls a “future architectural language,” and ~~his~~ her words are speaking to us with profound fluency.

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Tags: architecture

White Radical Evangelicals Get a Pass

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:14:24 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Thus, white evangelical Ministers are free to advocate American wars based on Biblical mandates, rant hatefully against Islam, and argue that natural disasters occur because God hates gay people...By contrast, black Muslim ministers like Farrakhan, or even black Christian ministers like Rev. Jeremiah Wright, are held with deep suspicion, even contempt. McCain is free to hug and praise the Rev. Hagees of the world, but Obama is required to prove over and over and over and over that he does not share the more extreme views of black Ministers."

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Some hateful, radical ministers -- white evangelicals -- are acceptable

Yesterday, though, the equally fringe, radical and hateful (at least) Rev. John Hagee -- a white evangelical who is the pastor of a sprawling "mega-church" in Texas -- enthusiastically endorsed John McCain.

Here is just a small sampling of the belief system of this welcomed McCain supporter:

* All Muslims are programmed to kill and we can thus never negotiate with any of them.

* God caused Hurricane Katrina to wipe out New Orleans because it had a gay pride parade the week before and was filled with sexual sin.

* The End Times -- Rapture -- is imminent and the U.S. Government must do what it can to hasten it, which at minimum requires: (a) a war with Iran and (b) undying, absolute support for a unified Israel, including all Occupied Territories

Tags: mccain, obama, farrakhan, hagee, black ministers, white ministers

steven wright's words

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:16:38 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 18 - Hard work pays off in the future, laziness pays off now.

20 - If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

22 - What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

23 - My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."

24 - Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?

25 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

26 - A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

27 - Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

28 - The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.

29 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.

30 - The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.

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Steven Wright

1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.

2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back.

3 - Half the people you know are below average.

4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.

5 - 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.

6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

8 - If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.

9 - All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.

10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend,...but she left me before we met.

12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark?

13 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?

14 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

15 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.

16 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

19 - I intend to live forever......so far, so good.

Tags: funnies, abcgirl171, jokes, steven, wright, funny

Spore - A Computer Game to Teach our Children Long Term Thinking

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 16:36:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This game is about evolution and exploring our universe at all scales from the microscopic to the galactic. It is about the 'Big Picture' of life, and how to think about it in a multilevel multiscale fashion. It will give a real grasp of the complexity and interconnectedness of life, and will educate the players holistic long term thinking and planning.

Watch the fascinating presentation of Will Wright in TED. Toys may change the world by changing us. I am all for it, and can't wait playing

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Will Wright is a mad genius of gaming. If his career in the industry hadn't already pointed at that, his newest project Spore cements the fact that he's one of the most creative and bold risk takers in the industry.

To put it simply, and this is not a simple game, Spore allows players to create and evolve a life form from a microscopic organism in the goop of early life up to a highly intelligent being, in order to expand through the galaxy and thousands of other planets with highly user-customizable content along the way.

Better yet, it provides community functionality that is unprecedented, even in view of The Sims franchise. This is one insanely ambitious piece of gaming, and I am now hooked.

Spore is named after how the game begins. All life has to start somewhere and most likely that somewhere is a nasty pool of watery muck.

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Tags: computer games, education, evolution

The Anti-Religion Movement

Sat, 15 Sep 2007 13:44:42 GMT

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BURGESS HILL, England -- Every morning on his walk to work, high school teacher Graham Wright recited a favorite Anglican prayer and asked God for strength in the day ahead. Then two years ago, he just stopped.

Many analysts trace the rise of what some are calling the "nonreligious movement" to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The sight of religious fanatics killing 3,000 people caused many to begin questioning -- and rejecting -- all religion.

"This is overwhelmingly the topic of the moment," said Terry Sanderson, president of the National Secular Society of Britain. "Religion in this country was very quiet until September 11, and now it is at the center of everything."

Christian fundamentalist groups who want to halt certain science research, reverse abortion and gay rights and teach creationism rather than evolution in schools are also angering people, according to Sanderson and others.

Tags: religion, atheism, society