Did you know Windows 8 speaker filters have an option for removing vocals from all music tracks? It works incredibly well. Just right-click the speaker icon in the lower-right hand corner of the screen, click Playback Devices, select your speakers,… Read more…
Einstein’s postulate that nothing is faster than the observed speed of light is wrong. Ultimately, what he proved was that we could not visually and objectively perceive anything which travels faster than light, which is a limitation of our ability… Read more…
With the reliability of perceptions in doubt, seeing as any impressions within a person’s being can be fabricated by an external party, I resultantly find that the core of my intellectual framework is void of the ability to undergo environmental conditioning any… Read more…
I just watched a documentary (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26FRAk8I2hs)about a new particle that was discovered by the Large Hadron Collider. If it, in fact, turns out to be something other than the Higgs boson (which is theorized to provide the proton with its quality… Read more…
Sometimes I feel like I’m following in the footsteps of the movie characters, musicians, storybook heroes, or socialites in my media sphere, without even wanting or trying to. After watching a compilation video of people eating cactuses, I had the… Read more…
During the early years of the United States, American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin said, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” He was the kind of man smart enough… Read more…
I had a dream recently where I was a skinny body double that couldn’t interact with my fat, original self, lest I be found out and break the rules of the universe, so I dropped a little piece of green plastic… Read more…
When talking about how we are doing, more commonly than not, a busily worn out person will report that they are “depressed”. This perpetuates a linguistic indistinction between depression (a lack of overt external pressure, leading to despondence) and oppression… Read more…
The apocalyptic scenario whereby ALL Cloud Storage files go offline, leaving the majority of the world without data, is called 青色空 (Aoi Sora: Ah-Oh-Ee Soh-Rah) in Japanese, or Blue Sky, in English. Imagine a world without internet, without servers, without… Read more…
What fractional value of Pi that is not Pi or zero produces the smallest number, in terms of digits used to represent it, when Pi is divided by it? You could try solving the limit of some value x between zero… Read more…
In direct contrast to the Anthropic Principle, whereby every perceivable phenomenon is caused for mankind, in a mankind-centered universe, designed specifically so that mankind might conceive of it, I propose the Xenopic Principle: Most phenomenon in the universe are caused by collections… Read more…
Turn off Audio Description (AD) on your TV if you get the impression that it is talking to you or following your thoughts or actions. It’s a free and sometimes automatic service for visually impaired viewers that follows their moves… Read more…
Calculating collisions in a software graphing engine: 1. Each object in your simulation is represented by a matrix overlayed on a three dimensional grid, defining the space it occupies with points. For this example, let us posit that there are two objects… Read more…
Worst mashup in history: 1. Kafka-esque trial, full of self doubt, loss, alienation, and imaged misjudgement by others. No matter the content of the person’s soul, they are judged guilty, even by themself. 2. Kant-ian, binarily-exclusionist-collectivist morality. In other words, take Kant’s theory that… Read more…
Wouldn’t it be cool if candidates raised campaign funds by investing in research and education and luxuries and entertainment and industry and farming and growth and technology instead of begging for handouts and panhandling by proxy, sort of like what… Read more…
I have a business idea for an alternative to Shazaam, the music recognition software application. Any time you hear a song you don’t recognize, you record it with your phone and it gets uploaded and resent to the music department… Read more…
The Apple iPad would be perfect if it used haptic feedback like the Motorola Droid 2 line of cellphones. Find whoever holds that feedback patent and invest heavily, because they stand to make a killing from licensing it. Then, again,… Read more…
I wish that by left clicking on the time display in the lower right hand corner of my screen in order to bring up the calendar, I could then right click on days on the calendar and add scheduled items for… Read more…
I’ve heard threats that the furry holocaust is coming. Aztec quetzal headed creatures. Indonesian tusked boar headed creatures. Indian elephant headed creatures. Egyptian jackal headed creatures. Greek bull headed creatures. Gothic bat headed creatures. European goat headed creatures. For a… Read more…
Retraction: Angling a light through, or onto and then off of, a lens, such that the light changes direction based upon the curvature of glass, without loss of coherence or intensity. Refraction: Angling a light through, or onto and then off of,… Read more…
Tummy tummy biggies, with not a lot to eat. They’ll swallow in the world, and darn it out to meat. Even when it’s ick, they can’t control their tastes, tummy tummy biggies, they live in outer space. Silly, hidey, straws,… Read more…
It is possible for two creatures that look nothing alike to have the ability to breed (sexual dimorphism). It is possible for two creatures that look exactly the same to have no ability to breed with one another (co-developmental physiological… Read more…
If your roto rooter can’t extend from it’s tips, retract it’s stems, split and develop out new branches from any position, twist and coil and wave and change direction of its parts, study the entire network with every available tool… Read more…
Facial Recognition software is a total crash market because of phenotypal selective breeding, surgery, material coating, and interracial recognitional incomprehension. Fingerprinting is a total crash market because of skin engraving. DNA testing is a total crash market because of pre… Read more…
✝is not the sign of Christianity. It is the sign of Televangelism. It is the telephone pole. Defined as such, it is death, decay, disease, disaster, detestation, and deconstruction, and that is all that supercysts on the outer surface of the pole’s all-powerful being,… Read more…
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It would be cool to design a color capture device on TVs and computers to collect visual display components, separate the good from the bad, and construct things with them. It would be cool to create an interactive chemical-animation flatscreen science… Read more…
Different tiers of atmospheric components settle at different elevations. The empire is filthy as fuck (plagues, industry, waste, capitalism, race slavery, technology). That is to say, if the colony I was in was indeed run by English, British-speaking, and British-cultured… Read more…
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Requesting 100 Gazillion (Un-metered Un-divided Krillograms) worth of no-cost, stably-reproducing, fickle-eating, shit-tethered, flying shrimp to take all the nasty dirt that is everywhere to somewhere else. They are to confine the filth within long sheaths that exit from their rectums… Read more…
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Before petabytes, there were terabytes. Before terabytes, there were gigabytes. Before gigabytes, there were megabytes. Before megabytes, there were kilobytes. Before kilobytes, we probably should have measured in hectobytes and decabytes. Before that, there were just bytes. Within bytes, we… Read more…
Sheepherd = Chevalies = Chav = Chef = Suff = Suffer = Sephaerdic = Shuffle = Shouf = Chafe = Chief = Souf = Saffrun = Saif = Shiv = Shoufa = Shuffit = Saf-fir = Shift = Feif =… Read more…
The statement, “I can’t love you any less”, can be used to represent either complete lack of love, or love that grows without end.
Do you kill just the ant that bites you, or do you kick over the whole hill? Maybe you carefully brush it off your skin and part ways, or maybe you stick around to see how it works. Kids tend to make a go… Read more…
A navigation experiment: In your chosen vehicle, follow the moon at night every day for an entire year. See where you end up. I can almost guarantee you that you won’t have been the first to try. Would you end… Read more…
If you want to make a potato go mental, ask it about it’s family history. Self-examination can bring down the strongest person, and I’m sure it feels uncomfortable to consciously bridge the gap between the present and your own birth,… Read more…
Senteces to maek of baddened written mak3 algae rhythm parsley deliciously cheesy nacho burrito Bandicoot system of used-to-be tortion. We aren’t still not probably not so much unclear about the wut wuts in the butt butts (not odd) without crafting… Read more…
If it weren’t not me who was a spa3z trubbling peirce ‘un, me tinks eye’d put a silly piece of stick on every ploinking pile of anything in the gaulish occipitally that had soma kinda tingies and tangys on or… Read more…
History and science, math and fiction, music and art, all information, really, is like a string of inconceivably long characters and ideas and sensations with no end in sight and no discernible pattern. While working to accumulate knowledge, it may… Read more…
Please consider the possibility that 9/11 was an attack against the airline, credit, and shipping industry, and not a reaction to US culture and political ideology. The Middle East has historically served as a trade partner linking Asia, Europe, and Africa, sustaining… Read more…
Push the envelope enough, and eventually it reaches the mailbox. Message received. It’s the letters that take the longest to reach us that have the greatest impact, for if we take too long to notice the encroachment of reality and act… Read more…
Have you ever tried reading Arabic backwards with the pitch and stresses switched? It makes more sense if you invert the semantics while you’re at it. What I would give for a proper corpus to test this with. After that,… Read more…
Children are so much more complete than adults. The opposing forces of growth and destruction leave adult-humans with little to show for their struggles. Keep going. Leave your mark. You’re great. Maybe the best that ever was.
The systems of equations written on these lovely physics students’ backs appear complex enough to warrant examination. Let’s attempt to expand and define the variables fully and study some solutions, without getting distracted. The first diagram on the left, inscribed on the back… Read more…
It has recently come to my attention that people often wear clothes in public. Why that should be the case is left to the observer’s imagination. I can personally find no rational reasons explaining the thought process that goes into inhabitants of the planet’s… Read more…
After surgically installing a mobile, wireless computer in my cat (in case he gets lost), I received the following text message through my Facebook app: 01101101011001010110111101110111
Pictured below are two quick-and-dirty lists detailing point and counterpoint of good business practice vs. bad business practice. Feel free to use them to inform your decisions on what companies to do business with. Be sure to report any business with questionable practices… Read more…
A full majority of online comments fall into two categories: “Fake!” or “Gay!” Let’s examine this further. If you really think about it, there’s a discrete difference if it’s one, the other, or both at the same time. Say you’re male on a computer… Read more…
Sprinting grey rabbits, hopping field mice, lithe foxes, horned owls, singing cardinals, swooping bluejays, button mushrooms after lightening storms, wild cats, croaking frogs, whizzing grasshoppers, rhythmed crickets, green-carpet tree moss after floods, creek minnows, digging crayfish, sticky newts, horned toads,… Read more…
If only the giant space-beings, soaring through time and swallowing galaxies whole with gaping jaws, with planets swirling in their bellies, could see in their roiling guts the timeless creatures fed through the tidal whirlpools and sluicing veins of their… Read more…
I’ve recently convinced myself that Japanese and Arabic share a relation. While the two cultures are geographically far-flung, the semantic meanings in Arabic of the Japanese words for counting are difficult to ignore, and interesting to explore. Below is a… Read more…
Dancing with the moon beneath the pale of darkness, I trade a song for a jaunt, as she sways to follow me. I turn my back to her, taking a few unsteady steps, and feel only satisfaction, knowing she will never… Read more…