Gryt-this is more an example of naming evolution for what acculteration(sic) does-acculteration (sic) is essentially all the subtle and not so subtle social forces at work on a particular concern-in this case, making babies amongst the poor. It's also a bit blame heavy.

And hey, I can nail it for you in one, if you like: so you say it's an evolutionary thing? Okay, show me the genes.

Remarkable, considering it's freehand-any pre sketching was minimal to non-existant. I like the embellishments.

Hilarious...yeah, like 'buying' a lamborghini is the way to find yourself. It's incredibly stupid on any level. Went from prisoner of his house, to prisoner of debt. And no real way to pay that debt. What an imbecile.

The way to do it? Keep the house, rent it out, buy a sweet motorhome, or just a big camping van-a Lamborghini aint built to be lived in-and then there's the worry-it'll get ripped off, inevitably. Dodge econoliner, with a shower and bath, renters in the house, some income coming in, go find yourself.

Cause if your gonna do the find yourself routine, even an objective materialist will tell you "ditch the baggage-all of it." well, maybe they wouldn't, but anyone with half a freakin' brain will.

A favourite library/art experience-inthe old library where i live, I chanced upon an unusual book-which I devoured in a single, glorious afternoon. It was, if I recall correctly 'Dali On Dali', where he interviewed himself-the subtitle was 'a hyper-paranoid theory of reality'. I'm a tad unsure of the exact wording of the subtitle.

A mesmerizing, bizarre, wondrous book, virtually every sentence had something amazing about it. Some things made sense, some didn't, many mostly just resonated deeply. But all of it, wonderful!

Never found or saw the book again. And sometimes, on the right kind of sunny afternoon, I wonder if I even actually read it-or did I slip into a reality so close to ours, and read a book he never wrote? which is a nice fanatasy, because I'm pretty sure he did write it. Maybe somebody can help with that-I could just go and look it up, but I prefer the memory of the discovery of it, that day.

Okaaaayyy...between the Olympic atrocity, and this, I am now firmly convinced that A: Monty Python was NOT a comedy sketch troupe, but rather 'daily life of ol' Britain' biographical documentary, and B: the Enlgish idea of good design is just about that funniest you know what I've seen, from just about any country, on the planet, anywhere.

I am absolutely loving the tragicomedy going on here...first, the tacky 80's looking 'broken swastika/Maggie Simspon giving a blowjob/some drunk puking utter monstrosity that is the logo...and now these sex toy/alien invader fantastically creepy looking utter rejects! My, but hasn't the design team hit every possible bad note and wrong move possible in these walking dildoes? Once you see the Maggie thing in the logo, you simply cannot unsee it. Hee!

Given this level of truly the most appalling, butt ugly and simply hideous beyond compare effort involved here, I'm almost tempted to watch the opening ceremonies. Because they're sure to be utterly tacky, disgusting, and worth at least one good party.

Sandrya: some years ago, Frank Frazetta suffered a stroke, and lost the use of his right hand, which was his painting hand. He retrained himself to use his right hand, and kept painting. He got hit with 5 strokes after, for a total of six strokes, and kept working through them all.

Got 'yield' wrong...whoops.

I highly doubt that. It's probably the number of obsolete nukes. Robert Anton Wilson, in the eighties, played the world game, the start of which was a Bucky map of the earth. Red bingo chips were used to represent thermonuclear warheads, as their size mostly matched the yeild of a warhead. Wilson mentions that he started crying, when a Fuller map, was covered, three deep, oceans and landmass, over the entirety of the globe.

I'm no mathematician, but at a guess, I'd say Russia and America split the diff with nukes, half and half. And anyways, sure, yeah, USA is gonna come out and tell the rest of the world how muchtheir arsenal really is? Not gonna happen.

Lest we forget-this does not include weaponry used in Iraq and Afghanistan, which carry a radioactive payload, and thus qualify as mere ordinance, but are actually near nukes.

I really rather liked Hawkings' appearances on The Simpsons and star Trek...I also think his physics are very nice...Not terrifically amazing, but very nice. A fairly reasonable number of cultures have survived technological superirority, and adapted quite nicely, so likely the probable result of a big speculative if is that a large number of humans would also adapt quite well. There seems to exist a kind of blinkers, about humans capacity-One can get mired in Darwinism, and not see the forest for the trees. That being that we are, much more than highly intelligent, highly adaptable. It's key to our survival, that like many rodents, we have not specialized in any ecological niche, and, with a high rate of adaptability, are thus able to encounter and transcend a wide variety of chaotic environmental and sociological situations.

Hawkings' real gift to people is the popularization of physics-by writing in layman's terms, and breaking down insanely complex formula heavy physics, so that yes, the average joe can dig what's going on inthe world and universe. And that's pretty cool. But I still like his appearances more! Imagine my surprise when for The Simpsons, I found out that the creators didn't just use the same kind of voicebox-they got Hawkings', who so obviously had such a ball with the whole thing. That's why he's pretty darn cool.

Since I'm culturally insensitive, no benefits for me...

That last comment rocked.

Now this, this way cool. This is science with a use! This kinda stuff makes me happy!

Not the Hasbeen Stupid Collider.

Cookin' bacon on a machine gun kicks posterior all over slappin' photons and particles around-gimme stuff that has usefulness.

Oh, sorry. Guess I'm probably almost excited or something. Damnit, a black hole would have been so cool. Lousy scientists messed it all up as usual.

Gonna go cook some bacon.

Of course the world did not end! BHut hey, let's face it-atom smashing is like smashing mirrors-all you get is smaller and smaller pieces-some with almost unique properties-oh, the nerds are get all uppity about that comment-and then you name the pieces. What fun!

I'm not anti-science, but let's face it-all it really is, is doing random stuff to various things, and then observing what happens-which is prittinear mostly what the alchemists and 'sorcereors' back in the day done did. Also, what are the roots of science. Then one builds a sort of library of observed effects, and voila! Magic!, er, science.

That is to say, sure, science is neat, but let's not venerate it. And anyways, think of all that money, that could be used to help build infrastructure and educational opportunities in many poor countries. Cause all that'll happen with this? well, they'll probably find something like the alleged Higgs-Bosun particle, and that'll be about it-it'll take years to work any technology around it, and even then, said technology will be insanely difficult to maintain, and ridiculously expensive, exotic, and mostly with uses only in the super collider field.

I think that pigeon had the right idea.