Dan Deacon: “Crystal Cat” from the ‘07 Pitchfork Media Festival
“A team of Swedish researchers has found that the presence of a receptor that regulates general serotonin activity in the brain correlates with people’s capacity for transcendence, the ability to apprehend phenomena that cannot be explained objectively. Scientists have long suspected that serotonin influences spirituality because drugs known to alter serotonin such as LSD also induce mystical experiences. But now they have proof from brain scans linking the capacity for spirituality with a major biological element.”
Controversial, but sensical. Aren’t there sites devoted just to video game videos? I think Diggnation is sponsored by one.“The Vimeo staff has decided that we are no longer going to allow gaming videos on Vimeo. Specifically, we are no longer going to allow game walk-throughs, game strategy videos, depictions of player vs player battles, raids, fraps, or any other video gaming videos that simply depict individuals playing a video game. Videos falling into this category will be subject to deletion as of September 1st; new videos of this type will be removed.”
So exciting.
A very controversial decision, but we pretty much had to do it.
Black bundles containing 5.8 tons of cocaine are displayed for reporters at the port of Salina Cruz, Mexico, Friday, July 18, 2008. The bundles were packed inside a 10-meter (31-foot) submarine seized off Mexico’s southern Pacific coast by the Mexican navy on Wednesday. (via The Associated Press)Mexico has a navy?
Three weeks.
Every book Art Garfunkel has read since Jun 1968.
Get in! (via hommedeterre)
Rumor has it Larry David has agreed to one more season of Curb. I think this is the best show on TV.
An interesting read. I didn’t realize there was a problem with rape and incest in the Amish community. Seems a little like the extreme Mormon sects of recent notoriety.
mrc:
awesome!I recently picked a new primary care doctor. After two visits and exhaustive lab tests, he said I was doing ‘fairly well’ for my age. A little concerned about that comment, I couldn’t resist asking him, ‘Do you think I’ll live to be 85?’ He asked, ‘Do you smoke tobacco, or drink beer or wine?’ ‘Oh no,’ I replied. ‘I’m not doing drugs, either!’ Then he asked, ‘Do you eat rib-eye steaks, barbecued ribs or Sausage?’ I said, ‘No, my former doctor said that all red meat is very unhealthy!’ ‘Do you spend a lot of time in the sun, like playing golf, boating, hiking, or bicycling?’ ‘No, I don’t,’ I said. He asked, ‘Do you gamble, drive fast cars, ride a Harley or have a lot of sex?’ ‘No,’ I said. He looked at me and said,
‘Then, why do you even give a shit?’