If you're not busy right now, you should really be watching the Travel Channel's "China Week" (all this week). They kicked it off @ 5pm local (PDT), and will be repeating things thru midnight tonight. More things all week long. Some of the shows include never-before-seen footage taken by the peeps who produced the award-winning "Planet Earth ( Read more... )

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I've only seen this commercial a few times, and each time I do, I get the shivers. Call it the exception to the rule that I normally loathe anything related to advertising. The message, like the channel, is simply amazing.

The World is Just Awesome

Yup, this is that week. Every year, I encourage people to turnoff their TellaVision for an entire week, prompted by Kill You TellaVision-TV Turnoff Week. I'm rather disappointed that I haven't seen this posted by any of my friends, most of whom are far more up-to-date with current events than I, a noted and proud Hermit. As a yearly tradition, I ( Read more... )

Here's a great little article on how merely glimpsing a corporate logo can make you think differently. People often ask me for more information on Memetics. This article is Memetics 101, people, and a great example of why I so deeply despise, loathe, & resent commercials.

"The Brain Fitness Program" is being featured on PBS. My dear brother atlas_mason called me and told me I should watch this show--NOW (coming from 2 people who notoriously despise TellaVision). I am typing this during a fundraising break of this show. In the past 10+ minutes, it seems to be largely about the latest research re: Brain Plasticity. Brain ( Read more... )

Watch these links while you can! If you only click on one short video, click on the big one I've embedded below. $cientology has used its typical vindictive legal strong-arming tactics to have past videos about the Co$ removed from the internet, which is, of course, what this whole "Anonymous VS. Co$" thing started with in the first place. I'm ( Read more... )

I've really enjoyed playing the "Lord of the Rings: The Third Age" for PS2. There is one character that I have a special affinity for--"Éaoden"--who has this most useful ability to suck the life from his opponents. I've got this ability so tweaked that this character has become a close 2nd in the party for strictly dealing damage, which makes him ( Read more... )

As I watch the various Michael Palin travel series, I am again reminded of how incredibly fortunate and lucky I am to have the Life that I do. Even the poorest American has so very many luxuries that have never been experienced by 99.9999% of the humans that have lived on this planet. For all of my personal railings against certain aspects of ( Read more... )

I fucking love what is going on w/ the whole "Boston Terrorist" bullshit. After reading briefly, I saw their interview on MSNBC. They have my utmost respect for what they are doing by mocking the press the way they did. These guys are Performance Artists, and the press just does not get that at all, at all ( Read more... )

I've been downloading lots of Documentaries since I got my computer again back in the beginning of December (and did I mention I just got a fancy new keyboard that I love? Mmmmmm... new keyboard comfy and nice to Kaptain Kinesthetic). Can I just say that I just finished watching the coolest fucking thing ever (certainly this week)? National ( Read more... )