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News Briefs 13-03-2014

By red pill junkieon

Here’s to another 25 years of LOLcats, twerking & the occasional revolution inspired by social networks.

  • Tim Berners-Lee calls for an online Magna Carta.
  • The Web We Want: Join the campaign to forge a free, secure & TRULY global internet.
  • In order to preserve the very structure of the net, Silicon Valley needs to learn how to share –their profits, that is.
  • Woman ‘attacked’ in San Francisco for wearing Google Glass.
  • Beyond the Vallee of the Dolls: Why our Universe & the Web share so much in common.
  • And the award to best UFO-hunting province in all of Canada goes toooo… Vancouver!
  • Phantom phone calls from vanished Malaysia airlines flight passengers?
  • Michio Kaku cringes with cinematic depictions of aliens –*I* cringe with his eagerness to jump in the materialistic brain=mind bandwagon, but that’s just silly woo me…
  • Can heart surgery change a person’s personality?
  • The Reckoning: How the father of Adam Lanza has tried to cope with what his son did.
  • The Ogre & the Orgone: When Shrek’s creator illustrated a book by Willhelm Reich.
  • A global call for DNA evidence of cryptids, co-organized by the International Cryptozoology Museum.
  • The Men Who Stare at Goatsuckers: A little article re. the Chupacabras & 90’s nostalgia by yours truly.
  • Radio Misterioso with guest Nick Redfern: In which the most prolific Fortean writer to date is suddenly possessed by the spirit of… Camilla the chicken??
  • Fly Lift me to the Moon ♫…
  • Red Pill of the Day: Monocles are making a comeback –because Glass-holes are soooo 2013…

    • Thanks, Susan & Tim.

    Quote of the Day:

    “Unless we have an open, neutral internet we can rely on without worrying about what’s happening at the back door, we can’t have open government, good democracy, good healthcare, connected communities and diversity of culture. It’s not naive to think we can have that, but it is naive to think we can just sit back and get it.”

    ~Sir Tim Berners-Lee

red pill junkie
Agnostic gnostic, walking conundrum & metaphysical oxymoron (with emphasis in the 'moron' part), the mysterious RPJ leaves a double life: By day he serves as Grand Master of the International Sacred Order of Lucha Libre, but at night he pursues his life-long study of everything considered mysterious and/or 'paranormal' --a term he personally detests... When he's not exploring the web looking for his daily fix of Forteana, he can be found blogging, doodling, fooling around and offering his services as news administrator and writer at The Daily Grail. He also regularly participates in other websites and podcasts like Radio Misterioso and Where Did the Road Go? He impatiently awaits for the return of the mothership in Mexico City. absurdbydesign.com
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3 Comments

  1. fly me to the news
    Google: it sucks that this woman was attacked for having new technology. *Puts nerd cap on* those glasses remind me of a slimmed down version of a scouter from DBZ. It really doesn’t matter what new tech humans come out with though, cell phone or glasses we will all be walking into poles from not paying attention. Laws against texting and driving shall be nothing compared to no googling whilst driving.

    Alien brains: C’mon Michio, yes I know that the thought of an acid spitting alien breaching out of somebody’s stomach is a little farfetched, but don’t tell me I can’t imagine it’s possible. it makes someone money. Period.

    Heart surgery: I often wonder in these cases were body parts are replaced and the person’s personality changes, is it the anesthesia’s effects on the brain after being exposed for an extended amount of time. Along with other drugs, it could be that in some people it does damage to their brain just enough were they can still function, but change. Similar how some stroke victims can start speaking fluent german or other languages they supposedly never knew, as if a deeper part of the brain is being tapped than normal logic wants to admit is there: the existence of a past life. We know that some drugs, such as Chantix (to quit smoking), can change the brains chemistry to the point were they warn you about it a lot. After working in a pharmacy for 5 years, I can say I have seen a lot of people effected by depression, anti-psychotic, and anti-smoking drugs more time than I can count and I don’t mean as an addiction. It’s scary to ingest something that messes with your brain. My brother, who suffers from depression and schizophrenia, can attest to this.

    1. Glass-holes
      I think that the incident in question is more related to the object as a symbol of status, & belonging to a certain class which is perceived as wrecking the societal fabric in San Francisco, than the mere technological aspect of it.

      That’s why I chose the monocle story as the Red Pill of the Day. Google Glass *IS* the monocle of the digital age.

      Your ideas about changes caused by anesthesia are incredibly interesting. I think those factors should be studied further.

      1. a long sleep
        The story that inspired The Exorcist, or at least one of them, was a boy going through strong chemotherapy for cancer. And often, I see these possession stories were the person experiencing the demon may be having a bad reaction to the drugs that are supposed to make them “healthy.” I would like to study it further, especially from the point of view of my own family, which sadly has a history of mental illness. Unfortunately getting my brother to discuss his “trips” that the medicine may have caused is out of the question, he is prone to relapse when he discusses them. But man they are scary to hear. How do you describe to someone that one night, you resting on the couch only begin feeling that a presence is in the room with you. The presence you feel “is you,” and the people on the news “look like they have animal faces.” Like your brain “knows they are human but can’t recognize them as human.” This is what his exact words were. To the average person you’d say he was just dreaming, but not when you can’t fall asleep because the drugs keep you awake.

        We don’t pay attention to the drugs that aren’t “controlled” substances or addictive because we think they are safe beyond what the side effects say. That’s were the problem lies.

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