Moved to Word Press…

…and I have only this to say:

CUSTOM CSS UPGRADE, $14.95?!

Until I move over to .org, you’d better get used to the sandbox layout.

Good byeeee

You may have reached this blog from a different URL (http://professionalwinner.com). Soon, you will probably not be reaching this blog, specifically, from this URL. But don’t worry. The new URL will still give you access to my insights, only different-looking. Keep your eyes peeled!

Gouzou goes sailing

Imagine that you’ve been working on a commercial fishing vessel in the Mozambique Channel for four weeks, seeing relatively little throughout, outside of coast and water. Now imagine running into this:

http://www.fatcap.com/jaces-art-on-sails

RIGHT?!

"Can I have a go?"

Damon Albarn discusses recycling in Mali, the recording industry, nuclear weapons, and table tennis.

Matthew McDowell/Hair Envelope

1412. 9 December 2007.

The State was the most intelligent show ever on MTV

MTV was supposed to release a State DVD set last month, but they didn’t, and no one knows why.

If you love The State as much as I do, you should write to MTV, and ask them to hurry up:

MTV Home Video
1515 Broadway, NY NY 10036

Every woman, every man. Join the caravan.

Canada’s Sole Contribution to the Internet is the thing least associated with Canada

While browsing the list of most frequently visited websites, I couldn’t help but notice that only one of the sites in the top 100 was based in Canada.

You may be asking: What could this site possibly be? Google.ca? Myspace.ca? Ebay.ca?

No, don’t be so banal. The only Canadian site on the list is unique in more than one way. It also happens (apparently) to be the most popular pornography resource in the world.

The true north strong and free, indeed.

Important!

I’d like to know: what the fuck is up with Kale (or Borecole, as it’s sometimes referred to). It tastes like what I imagine sewage would taste like. How do you prepare this horrible shit?

Semantics Schemantics

Clive Thompson on Why Science Will Triumph Only When Theory Becomes Law

Really, science will never triumph. I caught an episode of Nova on Tuesday about Intelligent Design, and while delivering the argument to the layperson audience, the show actually suggested that genetic mutation was, fully, the primary mechanism behind evolution. Forget genetic recombination and selection pressures– it apparently comes entirely from mutations. This kind of dismissive simplification accounts for the thousands of North Americans who think there’s a possibility that they may, at some point in their life, undergo some “genetic mutation” and become an X-man.

The function of primary, secondary, and, increasingly, even higher education has become to teach people how properly to express themselves. Academic standards have been decimated in favor of what can only be described as soggy self-efficacy workshops. Students just dredge through years of compulsory attendance, which they tolerate only for the social aspect, and very few of them are exposed to genuine academics, or anything that even fosters the motivation to learn. For this reason, millions successfully ooze through the system and emerge not only in complete ignorance of concepts like evolution, but fully unequipped to even process them. When these blobs become adults and wield power on school boards, they try to introduce “alternative theories”, which essentially just means garbage that’s slightly less boring and confusing to them.

The bottom line is: fiddle with the jargon all you want- people still aren’t going to give a shit.