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"Life expands or shrinks in proportion to one's courage." ~Anain Nin
August's 10 Weirdest... Our lovely ongoing tradition of listing many of the utterly strange search 9. kerry constantly sticks out his tongue 7.paintings that remind us of the day of judgement 6. is it art? 4.saiewdnbifswhtutaawtttstcotfw 2. weird things and the most bizarre, most logically unruly, most supremely 1. frog porn jaybird found this for you @ 21:36 in Blogosphere, Tech & Internet | | permalink
Fear factor: By entering a Fear factor: By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden location, a second set of votes is created. This set of votes can be changed, so that it no longer matches the correct votes. The voting system will then read the totals from the bogus vote set. It takes only seconds to change the votes, and to date not a single location in the U.S. has implemented security measures to fully mitigate the risks. jaybird found this for you @ 17:35 in News, Opinion & Politique | | permalink
More RNC Protest Pics, some More RNC Protest Pics, some NSFW. jaybird found this for you @ 16:13 in News, Opinion & Politique | | permalink
Rocinha is the largest slum, Rocinha is the largest slum, or favela, in Rio. This traveler handed out several disposable cameras to the children who live there, and this is what happened... jaybird found this for you @ 11:35 in Culture, People & Customs | | permalink
Berlin bear's break-out bid fails  Berlin bear's break-out bid fails A bold amphibious escape bid by a bear at Berlin zoo has been foiled... Juan the Andean spectacled bear first paddled across a moat using a log for a raft, then scaled a wall. Finally he appeared to commandeer a bicycle, before zookeepers with brooms cornered him, and a colleague picked him off with a tranquiliser gun. jaybird found this for you @ 07:22 in Radical Undertakings | | permalink
Recognizing the Meta-Levels of Beliefs Recognizing the Meta-Levels of Beliefs You have a lot more thoughts, ideas, and representations than you do beliefs. You can think lots of things without believing them. When we believe--we trust our thoughts, validate our ideas, and say "Yes" to those representations as right, true, reflective of reality, and something we can hang-on to. jaybird found this for you @ 22:08 in Consciousness, Psychology & Philosophy | | permalink
Reagan Home for the Criminally
While the Ronald Reagan Home for the Criminally Insane specializes in “bad taste for a good cause” there is no skit or graphic that we could ever come up with that can match the bad taste of the Bush Administration’s continued attempts to exploit the tragedy of September 11th to further their political agenda. jaybird found this for you @ 19:23 in News, Opinion & Politique | | permalink
Inside the Spiritual Jacuzzi: What Inside the Spiritual Jacuzzi: What JewBus, Unitarian Pagans, and the Hot Tub Mystery Religion tell us about traditional faiths There is a group in the Dallas area called the Hot Tub Mystery Religion. Its adherents hold to no particular spiritual dogma, borrowing freely from such sources as Jewish mysticism, Roman paganism, Islamic heresy, and experimental art. One of its founders has compiled a recommended reading list for the faithful; it includes a collection of Tantric exercises, a text on Sufism, one of Philip K. Dick’s Gnostic science fiction stories, and a novel by the Catholic apologist G.K. Chesterton. The group has been known to treat nitrous oxide as a sacrament and to throw Jacuzzi parties -- hence the name. jaybird found this for you @ 15:57 in Spirituality, Religion & Mythos | | permalink
Amazing sculpture from Bathsheba 
Amazing sculpture from Bathsheba Grossman jaybird found this for you @ 12:27 in Art, Music, Theater & Film | | permalink
Biggest bets in the universe Biggest bets in the universe unveiled Betting on the greatest unsolved problems in the universe is no longer the preserve of academic superstars such as Stephen Hawking. From Thursday anyone will be able to place bets on whether the biggest physics experiments in the world will come good before 2010. For two weeks, British-based bookmaker Ladbrokes is opening a book on five separate discoveries: life on Titan, gravitational waves, the Higgs boson, cosmic ray origins and nuclear fusion. jaybird found this for you @ 09:55 in Science, Quantum & Space | | permalink
Evolving Towards Telepathy" href="http://www.betterhumans.com/Features/Columns/Transitory_Human/column.aspx?articleID=2004-04-26-4">Evolving Evolving Towards Telepathy: Demand for increasingly powerful communications technology points to our future as a "techlepathic" species jaybird found this for you @ 23:45 in Consciousness, Psychology & Philosophy | | permalink
I'm tracking this week's 
I'm tracking this week's protests at NYC Indymedia: jaybird found this for you @ 15:45 in News, Opinion & Politique | | permalink
A Kind of Innocence We'd A Kind of Innocence We'd Never Seen Before: Thoughts on the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, and Collective Consciousness Suddenly people were stripped before one another and behold! as we looked on, we all made a great discovery: we were beautiful. Naked and helpless and sensitive as a snake after skinning, but far more human than that shining nightmare that had stood creaking in previous parade rest. We were alive and life was us. We joined hands and danced barefoot amongst the rubble. We had been cleansed, liberated! We would never don the old armors again. jaybird found this for you @ 10:33 in Consciousness, Psychology & Philosophy | | permalink
Charity, compassion and gay spirituality Charity, compassion and gay spirituality We passed through something of a golden age of compassion and caring in the decade from the late 80’s to early 90’s. The outpouring of compassion for people living with AIDS was widespread and pretty much universal: buddies, food and housing assistance, care for pets…you name it. The way we loved and cared for one another made us proud to be queer. But what about now? jaybird found this for you @ 07:41 in Spirituality, Religion & Mythos | | permalink
"Midnight Fog" One long exhale and you've filled the valley jaybird found this for you @ 00:57 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
The long-lost sleeping Buddha of The long-lost sleeping Buddha of Bamian. "We are digging... to find the greatest statue in the world." It's hard to believe that the sculpture ever went missing. According to the writings of a Chinese pilgrim who reported seeing the reclining Buddha in AD 629, it stretched 1,000 feet. jaybird found this for you @ 18:59 in History, Civilization & Anthropology | | permalink
What is the Higgs boson, What is the Higgs boson, and why do we want to find it? {via plep} The Higgs boson is an undiscovered elementary particle, thought to be a vital piece of the closely fitting jigsaw of particle physics. Like all particles, it has wave properties akin to those ripples on the surface of a pond which has been disturbed; indeed, only when the ripples travel as a well defined group is it sensible to speak of a particle at all. In quantum language the analogue of the water surface which carries the waves is called a field. Each type of particle has its own corresponding field. jaybird found this for you @ 17:12 in Science, Quantum & Space | | permalink
The scrapbook from "Dearly 
The scrapbook from "Dearly Deaprted," the play which we just concluded last night, jaybird found this for you @ 13:09 in | | permalink
Keillor: We're Not in Lake Keillor: We're Not in Lake Wobegon Anymore: How did the Party of Lincoln and Liberty transmogrify into the party of Newt Gingrich's evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk? (via Robin) jaybird found this for you @ 12:03 in Silly People, Satire & Strange Behaviors | | permalink
Dearly Departing Well, this play is almost over... I'm in my long haul until the next scene. I'm toying with taking a break from theatre for a while. It consumes so much time, and given my recent spiritual upheaval and the current state of things here in America, I think there's much to do right now that's just a tish more socially proactive. Sure, making people laugh works wonders down to the quantum level, but I'm feeling a call to deeper service. Of course, the veggie ham in me is easily glazed, so who knows... at any rate, I'll be glad to remove all this ass-padding and tight Seersucker and move on to whatever the next phase is. Great house tonight... jaybird found this for you @ 21:11 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
The unity of nature shouldn't The unity of nature shouldn't be exaggerated, since this is certainly not to claim that everything is the same, but there are certain threads that reappear. Resonance is an idea that we can use to understand vibrations of bridges and to think about atomic structure and sound waves, and the same mathematics applies over and over again in different versions. ...There were persistent reports when the first Western travelers went to southeast Asia, back to the time of Sir Francis Drake in the 1500s, of spectacular scenes along riverbanks, where thousands upon thousands of fireflies in the trees would all light up and go off simultaneously. These kinds of reports kept coming back to the West, and were published in scientific journals, and people who hadn't seen it couldn't believe it. Scientists said that this is a case of human misperception, that we're seeing patterns that don't exist, or that it's an optical illusion. How could the fireflies, which are not very intelligent creatures, manage to coordinate their flashings in such a spectacular and vast way? jaybird found this for you @ 17:49 in Science, Quantum & Space | | permalink
How Magicians Invented the Impossible How Magicians Invented the Impossible The authenticity of wardrobes called “spirit cabinets” that appeared to summon rowdy ghosts sparked heated debate and even riots. The French government deemed the magic of early magician Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin so inscrutable that they sent him as a special envoy to awe the colonized peoples of French Algeria. Master magicians attracted the attention now lavished on movie stars. In a flurry of creativity and determination that lasted roughly from 1850 through the Depression, the founders of modern magic created a new form of entertainment that spread across the globe. jaybird found this for you @ 11:48 in Conjecture & Speculation | | permalink
Smallest 'Earth-like' planet seen European Smallest 'Earth-like' planet seen European scientists have discovered what they describe as the smallest Earth-like planet orbiting a star outside our Solar System. The planet is 14 times the size of Earth - not so large that it qualifies as a gas giant - and is close enough to the star that it is unlikely to be icy. jaybird found this for you @ 07:44 in Science, Quantum & Space | | permalink
Yours truly, "The Midnight 
Yours truly, "The Midnight Sinner." jaybird found this for you @ 22:46 in Journaling the Infinite | | permalink
Yay, it's almost time for Yay, it's almost time for the curtain call- another show down. I'll post pics later so y'all can see what the flaming hell I'm babbling about. jaybird found this for you @ 21:46 in Misc. Babble | | permalink
Behold! It's seething strangeness! Behold! It's seething strangeness! jaybird found this for you @ 17:48 in High Weirdness | | permalink
Burning Man: A Black Rock Burning Man: A Black Rock State of Mind It is this freedom from commercialization, this brief moment of living the ideal and casting off the shackles of capitalism that make Burning Man such an oasis. Indeed, much of Silicon Valley leaves their cubes and offices for the playa, finding release, escape, and inspiration to bring back home. For now, the ideal can only exist if we work the rest of the year. But for one week we can drop our guard a little, fly our freak flag higher, talk to strangers and invite them into our temporary homes, embrace the land and the beautiful fury of nature, and walk amongst the human imagination as it manifests its vast mysteries into the arms of creation, unfettered and ever on the wing. jaybird found this for you @ 15:04 in Culture, People & Customs | | permalink
Let's meet the Mongolian Death Let's meet the Mongolian Death Worm! The first time you hear about the Mongolian Death Worm you assume it has to be a joke; it sounds too much like the monster from a B-movie or an especially dire comic book to be true. A five-foot (1.5m) long worm dwelling in the vast and inhospitable expanses of the Gobi Desert, the creature is known to Mongolia’s nomadic tribesmen as the allghoi khorkhoi (sometimes given as allerghoi horhai or olgoj chorchoj) or ‘intestine worm’ for its resemblance to a sort of living cow’s intestine. Apparently red in colour, sometimes described as having darker spots or blotches, and sometimes said to bear spiked projections at both ends, the khorkhoi is reputedly just as dangerous as its alarming appearance would suggest, squirting a lethal corrosive venom at its prey and capable of killing by discharging a deadly electric shock, even at a distance of some feet. jaybird found this for you @ 11:38 in Forteana, Phenomena & the Bizarre | | permalink
Earth warned on 'tipping points' Earth warned on 'tipping points' The world has barely begun to recognise the danger of setting off rapid and irreversible changes in some crucial natural systems, a scientist says. Professor Schellnhuber said 12 "hotspots" had been identified so far, areas which acted like massive regulators of the Earth's environment. If these critical regions were subjected to stress, they could trigger large-scale, rapid changes across the entire planet. But not enough was known about them to be able to predict when the limits of tolerance were reached. jaybird found this for you @ 07:24 in Environment, Ecology & Nature | | permalink
This is a moblog* post:
*Moblogging is posting from a cellphone or other wireless device- if a picture, it's taken from the phone. jaybird found this for you @ 19:26 in Live from the road... | | permalink
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, the pioneering 
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, the pioneering psychologist who devoted her life to studying death and dying, has moved on. (more...) "I have never met a person whose greatest need was anything other than real, unconditional love. You can find it in a simple act of kindness toward somone who needs help. There is no mistaking love. You feel it in your heart. It is the common fiber of life, the flame that heals our soul, energizes our spirit and supplies passion to our lives. It is our connection to God and to each other." jaybird found this for you @ 16:18 in | | permalink
Godchecker.com: We have more Gods Godchecker.com: We have more Gods than you can shake a stick at. Browse the pantheons of the world, explore ancient myths, and discover Gods of everything from Fertility to Fluff with the fully searchable Holy Database Of All Known Gods. jaybird found this for you @ 12:47 in Spirituality, Religion & Mythos | | permalink
Can the ethnic cleansing in Can the ethnic cleansing in Sudan be stopped? When Amina saw the janjaweed approaching, she hurried the donkeys to a red-rock hillock three hundred yards away. She assumed that Mohammed had fled in another direction, but she turned and saw that he had remained at the wells, with the older boys and the men, in an effort to protect the animals. He and the others were surrounded by several hundred janjaweed. As the circle closed around her son, she ducked behind the hillock and prayed. jaybird found this for you @ 09:37 in News, Opinion & Politique | | permalink
Interviews with mystic scholar/activist Andrew Harvey Since he spoke Sunday night, I've been transfixed by his passionate, unapologetically urgent message. jaybird found this for you @ 21:28 in Spirituality, Religion & Mythos | | permalink
It's dress rehearsal, and for It's dress rehearsal, and for some reason I'm not bouncy... I think I'm on my male 'moon-time.' jaybird found this for you @ 19:01 in Misc. Babble | | permalink
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