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Relationships don’t work they way they do on television and in the movies. Will they? Won’t they? And then they finally do, and they’re happy forever. Gimme a break. Nine out of ten of them end because they weren’t right for each other to begin with, and half of the ones who get married get divorced anyway, and I’m telling you right now, through all this stuff I have not become a cynic. I haven’t. Yes, I do happen to believe that love is mainly about pushing chocolate covered candies and, y’know, in some cultures, a chicken.

You can call me a sucker, I don’t care, because I do believe in it. Bottom line: it’s couples who are truly right for each other wade through the same crap as everybody else, but the big difference is they don’t let it take them down. One of those two people will stand up and fight for that relationship every time. If it’s right, and they’re real lucky, one of them will say something.

• Dr. Cox, Scrubs

Science

One of the most promising developments lies in a beaker of water inside a Florida laboratory. It’s an experiment called AEGIS – an acronym for Artificially Expanded Genetic Information System. Its creator, Steve Benner, says it is the first synthetic genetic system capable of Darwinian evolution.

Alien landscape, or vision of a usually unlooked-upon aspect of our own planet…? Yeah, it’s Earth.

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(Thanks to Gamer Phreak from www.videogamelife.com for a bunch of these links.)

“An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.”
Voltaire

Science

‘We have a saying in Japanese, ‘The misfortunes of others are the taste of honey,” said Mr Takahashi. ‘The ventral striatum is processing that ‘honey.”

Think mind-control is a myth? Think again, and then consider how many of your daily actions are truly your own! (Enough to drive a sane person mad, ain’t it?)

What they don’t say in this article is that if that blast was aimed at us, we’d probably be dead right now.

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“I’d like to share a revelation that I’ve had, during my time here. It came to me when I tried to classify your species. I realized that you’re not actually mammals. Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not.

You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus. Human beings are a disease, a cancer of this planet, you are a plague, and we are the cure.”

Agent Smith, The Matrix

Exactly how much longer before the human actor is driven irrelevant by modern technology? Hm – can’t be too bad of a thing, maybe it’ll soften the celebrity ego-feeding worship most of us lavish upon the Hollywood Elite.

Yeah, it’s old, but I don’t feel it’ll ever get too old to make fun of Sarah Palin.

Just goes to show how small and insignificant we all are.

Ah, local news – inexperience and ignorance surpassed only by modern-day bloggers and podcasters.

Hypnotic…hyp…no…tic…

At what point did our country become so completely…gah, there needs to be a word better than dumbs***…

Wouldn’t mind having an apartment at the top of one of these. Can you imagine the view?

And now, in my weekly attempt to scare the s*** out of all of you…

You’ve got to hand it to the Egyptians – they sure knew how to pack away dead people.

…and how many teenagers are going to be willing to accurately record how many hours they spend looking at porn? Not many. Not very many at all.

I’m not sure which one I like more – the one where things end in a draw, or the one where Vader drops all of them.

So the economy is so bad, organized crime lords are dumping money into the economy to help get it going. By Chaos, this is getting sick and sad.

I’ve been hearing that bad forensics can account for a large proportion of false imprisonments, but jeez, you’re actually at risk when arrested, even if your innocent.

So the events in Dies the Fire: A Novel of the Change can actually happen? Shit, better buy a Katana…

So even communist Cuba has figured out Linux is a better OS?

Have an overworked security force? Not enough hours in the day to carry out the executions in your oppressive dictatorship? Buy the new Death Bus, and never worry about not killing all those dissidents ever again!

Haha, too true, too true…

…and how long before they can pick out information directly from your brain? We passed a genetics discrimination act, I think we’ll now need a law to protect the information in our nervous system.

Personally – my own opinion, of course - the USA is doomed. Just an opinion. But others, of course, disagree…

Tune in next week when I post top secret government information THEY don’t want you to know about!

…or I’ll just post a bunch of lolcats. I still haven’t decided.

MULDER: I’m sorry, I meant no offense.

NUTT: Well, then why should I take offense? Just because it’s human nature to make instantaneous judgments of others based solely upon their physical appearances? Why, I’ve done the same thing to you, for example. I’ve taken in your all-American features, your dour demeanor, your unimaginative necktie design and concluded that you work for the government. An F.B.I. agent. But do you see the tragedy here? I have mistakenly reduced you to a stereotype. A caricature. Instead of regarding you as a specific, unique individual.

MULDER: But I am an F.B.I. agent.

While I’m still a unsure if – like the Singularity crowd believes – that we can improve upon biology, this article shows what we’ve gained by mimicking it.

If you’ve not seen Repo! The Genetic Opera, and aren’t bothered by a little gore (Chaos knows I’m no fan of horror flicks myself) then you need to go see it. Listen to this little chatterbox if you need independent verification.

So we plug a bunch of numbers into a computer and come up with…this? Do we really think that simulation equals reality?

Sephiroth. (Those that know the name don’t need any other explanation.)

I was thinking about writing something like this - seems I was beaten to the punch. The only certain thing the past few decades have offered us is…uncertainty. (Was that as trite and cliche as it sounds…? Man, I’m getting emo.)

Sometimes the deepest social commentary can come from a three-panel comic strip.

Prelude to deeper social unrest and the breaking apart of the formerly grand republic…or a bunch of bureaucrats acting whiny and defensive?

No amount of paint will get a procrastinator to sit down and study, but interesting nonetheless.

I would buy a T-Shirt with this on it. Of course, then even the people who don’t know me would know what a massive geek I am…

I was a bit hesitant about the movie Coraline until I saw this. I don’t think Neil Gaiman is capable of writing a bad book or script.

If you can ignore the irritating commentary on this youtube vid, you’ll be pleasantly entertained. (Just more proof that nature is light-years ahead of our understanding and engineering.)

Yet another clever lolcat.

Can immortality be far behind…? Yes. Very far behind – but then, that’s the cynic in me talking.

With parents capable of such cruelty, I’m often astounded when people look at me like I’m a monster for supporting a law in which you have to prove you’ll be a capable f****** parent!

Dark Roasted Blend provides another gem.

Can’t be sure if this is real or fake, but still looks pretty darn convincing - which only helps it’s hilarity.

Oooohh BURRRRRRRRRRRRRRN!

*pats pockets* I was sure I put that change somewhere around here…now where the heck was it…

…and another slam-dunk for science!

I think I could live in one of these. Yup. No problem.

Sure, a giant bug with electronics poking out of every-which-way isn’t going to tip off anyone. No sir. Not at all.

…and to round things out this week…beloved Sesame Street characters bastardized by adults with sick imaginations!

Tune in next week when I unveil a shocking conspiracy that links Stephen Colbert, the CIA, the House of Representatives, and Larry the Cable Guy! (You won’t believe what they’re doing!)

Until then!

“If you don’t like your job, you don’t strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That’s the American way.” – Homer Simpson

And now, in my weekly attempt to scare the s*** out of all of you…

Medical miracle, or another instance of crazy baby-obsessed-woman going…well…crazy?

Despite the Pentagon’s massive budget (a budget that could insure the entire population of the United States), we still find breeches of information in the most unlikely of places…like an MP3 Player at a garage sale.

Isn’t the ‘trust your gut’ doctrine what screwed up the USA in the first place?

Is it…is it possible that there’s…hope for the future?

Ah, no, guess not.

While Pink Tentacle sounds like the title of a Japanese Hentai movie, this article is rather badass.

Wow, State Governments are starting to run like Wal-Marts.

Sweeeeet.

Read the article, feel inspiried, but make sure to read the first comment on the bottom.

Gotta love it when Stephen Colbert’s guests give the satirist a run for his money.

For Avatar fans only…

That’s it this week! Tune in next week when I prove that Ann Coulter is a man! Until then!

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”

- Seneca

Science is, on occasion, simply badass.

I’m not entirely sure whether to applaud his stoicism, or admonish his addiction.

I’ve always felt that the traditional American wedding was a money-soaked farce, so I’m glad people are using their imaginations to change it up.

You just gotta love it when people fight the system and win.

My, how the world has changed…and will keep changing.

One wonders how absolutely f****** lazy we Americans have become when we shove more pills down our children’s throat than any other nation in the world.

I think I saw this car in northern Florida once…

It’s best to read this article while listening to the Star Wars Imperial March.

Remember this article, because later in life as we defeat disease, this will have been the beginning of it.

Reading this, I sometimes wish we still had criminals fight lions in pits as punishment – as well as for our amusement.

Proving once again we don’t know jack about our own brains.

Yet another reason nations will slowly become a thing of the past.

Tune in next week when I showcase Dick Cheney’s sex tape! Until then!