Truth Like The Dark

Lyrics from this ad version of the Violent Femmes‘ classic “Blister in the Sun”:

When I’m a walkin’
I strut my stuff
And I’m so hung out
I fly like a kite
I just might
stop to check you out

That’s a freaking crime. I won’t be drinking a milliliter of Foster’s anytime soon, that’s for sure.

Just finished watching Stargate: The Ark of Truth (which was straight-to-DVD in the USA, but was premiered on SkyOne here in the UK before it’s availability on silver plastic Frisbees later this week).

I hear that it was shot in 16 days. I would have figured it more for a week’s worth. Honestly, it’s not even a good episode. Did wrap up the Ori story line.

But, for an Easter weekend premiere, I was really surprised they didn’t answer the key question for the Stargate Universe:
was Jesus an Ancient, or a Goa-uld?!?

And we don’t even get Ardria in a bikini.

Just an insomniacal giggle of mine. I can see the whole script in my head, I swear.

Golly whiz and geez bang! One of the greatest things evah about my new iPod 160 GB is that I don’t have to worry how much video I stick on it. It’ll take forever to fill this mutha!

And I’ve got a really good system setup to get everything on it I want. I use my PC/TV/DVR setup to record TV shows, I rip DVDs with DVD Decrypter, I use Videora to download torrents and video feeds, and I use Videora iPod Convertor to automagically transfer it all to the ‘pod.

Videora iPod Convertor also converts flash videos from sites like YouTube, and I download those to a directory where everything gets converted to the iPod, using the Video DownloadHelper Firefox Extension.

One of the videos I got to watch on my ‘pod’s amazingly sharp screen while flying across the Atlantic was this Google Talks lecture by David Weinberger on his book Everything is Miscellaneous. Really philosphical stuff, and worth watching. I wonder if the book holds up. And I also wonder whether it mentioned Charles Sanders Peirce, which it most certainly should.

“Externalizing Meaning” is my new catchphrase for what’s happening on the web these days.

Now if my iPod was only tag driven.

This is a very good blog post, about why atheists get angry at the world around them. I’m an agnostic, but any non-believer faces prejudice in this world.

Those of you noticing all the “service unavailable” messages on my blog can blame image redirection service imgred, who have apparently shut down. Now I’ve got to find time to edit all those posts!!

Seriously. I think this might be my desktop wallpaper for the rest of my life.

From BeaucoupKevin.

I’d move there. Seriously, she is a artistic genius, so beautiful inside and out. And look, she was beautiful even before she was Joni Mitchell:

Over on StrangeMaps, there’s this image of The Inglehart-Welzel Cultural Map of the World, a map of secularity versus self expression values. Wonder how hard it is to learn Swedish?

Just finished Daniel J. Levitin’s This is Your Brain On Music. Strongly recommended for both music lovers and scientists (and particularly those interested in brains and AI). There are lots of things in the book I disagreed with, and I think it could have had a better ending, but the writing is great, and it’s pitched at a good level for a general audience. The frequent use of music references from many genres were particularly good. As the book articulated neurally: music is evocative, and tying these ideas to tunes you know really gives them impact.