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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 body because creature comfort is exactly what keeps us from killing ourselves.

(tags: transhumanism futurism sci-fi science AI)

Jul 26, 2007 3

links for 2007-07-27

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)

Jul 23, 2007 1

links for 2007-07-24

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 sweet example of the law of unintended consequences. Iraq, etc. has given cause and made celebrities of bums who would have otherwise been forgotten and cast aside in their own countries.

(tags: politics iraq terrorism)

Jul 3, 2007 4

links for 2007-07-04

‘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)

Jun 21, 2007 4

links for 2007-06-22

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)

Jun 19, 2007 1

links for 2007-06-20

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)

Jun 13, 2007 Comments Off

links for 2007-06-14

Southern Shelter: Harvey Milk @ Drunken Unicorn 10/27/06

Git your Harvey Milk, live.

(tags: rock athens music noise)

Jun 11, 2007 Comments Off

links for 2007-06-12

Wooster Collective: Shit We’re Diggin: Doris Salcedo’s Stacked Chairs

Whoa. Kewl.

(tags: art crazy chairs urban)

May 25, 2007 1

links for 2007-05-26

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)

May 19, 2007 Comments Off

links for 2007-05-20

Reason Magazine – The Folly of Southern Hospitality

The Loaf’s own John Sugg tackles corporate subsidies in the South.

(tags: atlanta government economics politics)

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