Pentagon Seeks Screaming Pain From Above Ability

I'm sure you've all heard of the Active Denial System before, or as I prefer to call it, the Pain Ray. If we are to make martial technologies, we must at least be honest about it. The Pain Ray is usually mounted to a truck or ground or what have you and is meant to disperse crowds, demoralize the enemy and ask the really, really tough questions of knowledgeable persons.

Now, the boys at the five-sided war machine seek an airborne version of the pain ray. An air-to-surface pain ray, if you will.

Five years, max, before the pain ray sees domestic application.

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This vacuum will be the end of you, crap on the rug

I am seriously digging the new apartment layout. It looks like the easy level of racing games. Gentle loop.

is in a feng shui optimized apartment.

testing, one two, testing

Rocket Scientists Annihilate Mosquitoes with Lasers

Neo-Luddites and Modern Primitives are big fans of saying that technology is intrinsically dangerous, a dehumanizing force leading us to an inevitable nightmare scenario equal parts the nightmare futures of Terminator, the Matrix, Gattaca and Pluto Nash. But today, science showed that it is still and always can be a force for good.

How good? How about shooting goddamn mosquitoes out of the air with a laser? That's awesome, I don't care what you say about it.

Naturally, there are better reasons for this technology then reducing one of the most annoying, anti-BBQ insects on Earth into scorched bug bits. It can help with the 1 million deaths every year caused by mosquito-spread malaria.

Which is something we can all get behind. Unless, of course, you're a peak population adherent. But we can't please all of our doomsdaycults, can we?

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More Vapid Materialism

This is going to be the best spent $16 ever.

DOOM

Everyone else has these obama renderings and I've never seen a crowded bandwagon that I didn't mind elbowing onto.

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Rump Roast Beef

This is what I'm having for dinner tonight:

1 rump roast
1 can beef broth
1 can cream of onion soup
1/4 can water

Freakin' awesome.


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Tide Turning in Evolution Debate

One of the most heated theaters of battle in the Culture Wars has been Evolution vs. Intelligent Design/Crazy Invisible Man Science-ish Stuff. Conservatives in Texas have lost a fight to include critiques of evolution in school curriculum.

from the Austin News:

The Texas vote on evolution was in the crosshairs of both state and national media this week because textbook publishers cater to Texas because of its high-volume purchases. If Texas chose to make significant changes to the science standards, other states would likely be forced to follow suit. The standards, once approved on final reading in March, will stand for 10 years.

Is this a fringe benefit of President Obamas' ascendancy? Signal of a change in the tide? The death knell for the Religious Fanatic control of America and its' society? Maybe me overreacting to common sense prevailing finally? Who knows?

Troyvision 1/10/09

This edition of Troyvision has a little bit of everything. Failed pole dancing, stampeding dolphins, Robocop rap, kittens on a slide, kazoos, botnets, Darth Vader, bean burritos, blast knuckles and weird dresses.

What more could you want?

Denise Juneau and Montana Becoming Less Backward

I'm buying into the hype. At New West, I have a new blog post up discussing the recent swearing in of Denise Juneau. There's been a lot of talk about a New Day for Native Americans and Montana, and I'm drinking the kool-aid on this one. Mostly because it's a good thing, but I think you can read the post to get that idea.

-Troy

Different from the Old Boss

I've posted an article at New West. It's about the new position within our Administration-Elect, the First Americans Public Liaison. Nifty title, isn't it? We don't know much about the position yet, but it's already a hint of what the Obama administration has in mind for Native Americans. Read on, read on...

-Troy

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Neanderthal Genome Half Sequenced; Prepare for Gen Mods

It's a well known fact that some of the first things that modern technology becomes equipped for is porn. It was probably some the first public contributions to internet, was some of the first stuff you could find on those hand held mini-laptops and a major force in character design on Spore.

So when I heard that half of the neanderthal genome has been sequenced, I knew that mankind would want to get fresh with this failed branch of the human tree, or get fresh as this long-dead stick of genetics.

Get ready for the hybrids folks. They'll be the ones involuntarily hunting strays and having resource wars with the homeless.

from New Scientist:

Half the Neanderthal genome has been decoded and the rest should be sequenced by year's end, a scientist involved in the project told a human evolution conference last week.

Culture Warriors On the Atomic Scale

Culture Warriors on the "NO!" side of Prop. 8 may take up their morally inflamed arms against nanotechnology, according to a new study.

The Cultural Cognition project at Yale Law School found that people who learn about a new technology often become deeply polarized along cultural lines. I know that this sort of behavior is as ingrained as breathing, but it's still disheartening.

Nanotech! The Devil's Science, or Johnny Jihadi's micro-terror pal?!

from Physorg:

The determining factor in how people responded was their cultural values, according to Dan Kahan, the Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor at Yale Law School and lead author of the study. "People who had more individualistic, pro-commerce values, tended to infer that nanotechnology is safe," said Kahan, "while people who are more worried about economic inequality read the same information as implying that nanotechnology is likely to be dangerous."

Fast Food Rots Your Brain

The fine cuisine of McDonald's, Taco Bell and White Castle are taking a hidden toll on bodies. Well, outside of the hidden toll that is a ruined digestive track, diabetes, weight issues and being covered in grease.

You're more likely to get Alzheimer's if you eat at your favorite fast food joint.

from The Local:

“Our hypothesis is therefore that a high intake of fat and cholesterol, in conjunction with genetic factors like apoE4, can lead to several substances in the brain being adversely affected and that can be a contributing cause to the development of Alzheimer’s,” said Akterin.

Fast food is one of the most egregious malefactors of Western society. Low in nutrition, tasteless, addicting, unhealthy and designed for an impatient civilization, it only seems appropriate that it also steals your mind from you.

Grapes won't give you alz, by the way.

Internet Killed the Terrorist Star

When it comes to the War on Terrorism, tough choices have been made on who to ally with. Trying their best to side with organizations and governments who share their interests, the State Department as teamed up with tribes in Northern Alliance to Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi.

So it only makes sense that the new allies in the War on Terror are Facebook, Google and MTV, amongst others.

from Global Research:

They will forge an "Alliance of Youth Movement," said James Glassman, under secretary of state for public diplomacy.

"The idea is put all these people together, share best practices, produce a manual that will be accessible online and in print to any group that wants to build a youth empowerment organization to push back against violence and oppression around the world," he told reporters.

Now, I'm not going to criticize strategies that have had effectiveness against groups like FARC, but the situation in Colombia is light years away from the situation here in America.

Starting a facebook group called "Terrorism Sucks!" and getting a bunch of people to join it isn't exactly winning the War on Islamic Fundamental Militancy. Google bombing Osama Bin Laden doesn't have the same effectiveness as actually bombing him. MTV has never been cool.

This is a pointless exercise in media warfare where it isn't going to have much effect. But whatever. If you want to ostracize Al Qaeda online, be my guest. I just can't help but think that there might be more intelligent uses of that counter terrorism cash.

Trying out some video

So I figured, instead of posting throw off videos every couple of hours, why not make it one simple, easy to watch package? Meet Troyvision:



I'm planning on doing this relatively frequently. A major goal I've created lately is to create some kind of content out of what is otherwise pointless websurfing. I think I'm off to a good start.

Thanksgiving Day

I don't plan on giving much facetime to the Americana Creation Myth beyond this:



Eat up.