Archive for February, 2009

We at Chaos Seeds (and by we, I mean my multiple personalities and I) don’t usually do music commentary or the like, but (does a bad imitation of Cartman) “Whut-eva! I’ll do what I want!”

Powerman 5000, the band that can’t figure out what sound or style or design it ever wants to do, has released a new single Supervillain on their myspace page – and it is awesome! Listen, enjoy, and buy the album when it comes out.

http://www.myspace.com/powerman5000

I greatly enjoyed Tonight the Stars Revolt! and I even dug Transform, so if this is the sound of their new album, it’ll be a great return to form after *shudder* Destroy what You Enjoy *shudder shudder*.

Instead, it’s a brain worm! Interesting video – slightly gross, but still cool in a weird way…

(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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…made all the funnier because I’m brother to an aspiring engineer. (Boiler Up!)

Received this in an email today. Badass Links and other time-wasting crap will be posted soon.

Understanding Engineers – Take One

Two engineering students were walking across a university campus when one said, “Where did you get such a great bike?”

The second engineer replied, “Well, I was walking along yesterday, minding my own business, when a beautiful woman rode up on this bike, threw it to the ground, took off all her clothes and said, “Take what you want.”

The second engineer nodded approvingly and said, “Good choice; the clothes probably wouldn’t have fit you anyway.”

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Ukrainian Fighting Women

I think the plain idea that these women utilize medieval weaponry is the thing that makes them SO FULL OF AWESOME!

Of course, the simple fact that they look like they are fully capable of yanking a man’s spinal cord straight out of his mouth has a certain amount of (decidedly weird) sex appeal as well…

Gin Rummy: I always say the absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.
Riley: What?
Gin Rummy: Simply because you don’t have evidence that something does exist does not mean you have evidence of something that doesn’t exist.
Riley: What?
Gin Rummy: What country are you from?
Riley: What?
Gin Rummy: ‘What’ ain’t no country I ever heard of! They speak English in ‘What’?
Riley: What?
Gin Rummy: English, motherf*****! Do you speak it?
Riley: Yeah.
Gin Rummy: So you understand the words I’m saying to you!
Riley: Yeah.
Gin Rummy: Well, what I’m saying is that there are known knowns and that there are known unknowns. But there are also unknown unknowns; things we don’t know that we don’t know.
Riley: What?
Gin Rummy: Say what again! Say what again! I dare you! I double dare you, motherf*****! Say what one more time!

The Boondocks – A Date With The Health Inspector

We’re a couple of weeks into the site being up, and I’m more or less pleased with how it’s coming along. There are several Badass Links posted, full of trivial entertainment and articles detailing both hope for the future and the hopelessness of the future. I finally got the advertising up and looking not-so-horrible, and the Amazon store is up and ready, full of books I heartily recommend. Good food for the neocortex.

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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.

Christian Bale is a Dick…

(but so are you!)

Curiosity got the better of me today, and I listened to Mr. Bale’s on-set temper-tantrum (such whiny, effusive verbal diarrhea doesn’t get the more masculine moniker of explosion or rant) and I have to say…I’m not surprised.

Why, you ask?

Because of you.

Perhaps not you in particular, dear reader – if you come to Chaos Seeds for cerebral enlightenment and entertainment you’re probably one of a minority in America today who actually try to take care of their nervous systems with thoughtful, intelligent entertainment.

But sadly, a majority of you don’t do this.

No, instead you trawl celebrity blogs and dish about who’s wearing who and who’s dating who and who under-tipped what waitress at what trendy Hollywood cafe and who picked their ass at what time in front of what photographer. Yes, all the knowledge the world contains, at your very fingertips…and you’d rather read about Britney Spear’s  latest insanity-induced antic.

It’s because of your pathetic worship of celebrity that we have Christian Bale screaming at a stage hand and not getting a very pointy, very hard boot up his ass by someone with a backbone for his trouble. Yes, you – you know the type, right? The type who actually read People Magazine and Entertainment Weekly. The type who can rattle off every movie a particular actor has ever been in, can tell you what director and what producer helmed said film, and can even offer their oh-so-enlightening commentary on the flick.

What the fuck, America?

You’re surprised? You’re shocked? You’re disgusted by his behavior? Why? You think it’s the first time this has happened on set? I’d bet my pathetic monthly salary worse has been said by other ’stars.’

YOU create these monsters with your worship, undivided attention, and obsession.

Christian Bale is a horrible person for his temper-tantrum, but much like a child who was never disciplined and grows up to rob convenient stores and drink hard liqueur until he passes out at the strip club at 3am, so do we raise these celebrities to expect us to behave a certain way. They expect the worship and devotion.

So long as we treat these people like gods, go to their films simply because Brad fucking Pitt or Tom fucking Hanks is headlining, or scream like you’re having a seizure every time you see a celebrity, this will happen, it will continue, and no one in this country has the right to bitch about it.

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!