Reason Magazine - Would you give up your immortality to ensure the success of a posthuman world?
I still argue that transhumanists that believe in any sort mass exodus from the biological substrate we now inhabit (our bodies) are full of it. Download your brain? Yeah, that sounds like a fucking blast. We’ll never leave the [...]

DAV - About DAV Page
Geek out. How cool is this in our own Georgia. Couldn’t top the telescope outside the Flat Iron Bar for the most recent eclipse. For jovial combination of activities at least.
(tags: astronomy georgia atlanta space)

Ron Paul | Paul the apostate | Economist.com
Ron Paul makes the Economist.
(tags: economics libertarian politics)

Ron Paul - Presidential Election of 2008 - Elections - Candidates - Republicans - New York Times
RP gaining some serious ground. Big writeup here.
(tags: 2008 news politics)

Foreign Policy: The List: The World’s Stupidest Fatwas
(tags: politics islam fatwas religion)

Foreign Policy: Ahmadinejobless
Ah, another [...]

‘Sicko’: Heavily Doctored, By Kurt Loder - Movie News Story | MTV Movie News
MTV’s Kurt Loder calls bullshit on Michael Moore’s ‘Sicko.’
(tags: government healthcare politics propaganda)

TED | Talks | List
Fire up the bong…yous got some heavy thinking ahead of you.
(tags: computer science research TED)

Reason Magazine - Who’s Afraid of Mergers?
Recommended reading for all big business phobic control freaks. I’m so over this socialist control-the-world-from-the-top-down idiocy. Life just ain’t like that folks…
(tags: politics regulation mergers business economics)

Foreign Policy: The Failed States Index 2007
More fun than American Idol. And the winner is…
(tags: politics development nations)

Memory Drug …on 60 Minutes; Exclusive Video Only on Yahoo! News
Propranolol. We will un-remember it for you wholesale. Good to see Phil Dickian sci-fi delusion making it’s way into our reality…
(tags: brain health psychology medicine sci-fi pkd memory)

Southern Shelter: Harvey Milk @ Drunken Unicorn 10/27/06
Git your Harvey Milk, live.
(tags: rock athens music noise)

Wooster Collective: Shit We’re Diggin: Doris Salcedo’s Stacked Chairs
Whoa. Kewl.
(tags: art crazy chairs urban)

Reason Magazine - Paul Had a Point
Ron Paul was attacked like a liberal at Fox News lynching for daring to suggest that interventionist foreign policy might have had something to do with terrorist attacks on the US, the GOP further cementing it’s break with conservatism.
(tags: politics gop terrorism iraq)

Reason Magazine - The Folly of Southern Hospitality
The Loaf’s own John Sugg tackles corporate subsidies in the South.
(tags: atlanta government economics politics)