Maynard Keenan will kick your ass while still singing. (YouTube link.)
October 26, 2006
Is nothing sacred?
Religious groups are upset about the sale of saints’ body parts on eBay. The street finds it own uses for things. (Link first spotted at The Revealer.)
October 25, 2006
Man in trouble over mannequin fetish
I suppose a mannequin fetish is bound to get you in trouble. Perhaps he hadn’t heard of Real Dolls?
The new atheism
The other day I posted about Richard Dawkins’ new book, The God Delusion, which has just been released and is already firing up ideologues all over the Web. Now Wired looks at the new atheist movement.
“We find ourselves, this very autumn, three-and-a-half centuries after the intellectual martyrdom of Galileo, caught up in a struggle of ultimate importance, when each one of us must make a commitment. It is time to declare our position.
“This is the challenge posed by the New Atheists. We are called upon, we lax agnostics, we noncommittal nonbelievers, we vague deists who would be embarrassed to defend antique absurdities like the Virgin Birth or the notion that Mary rose into heaven without dying, or any other blatant myth; we are called out, we fence-sitters, and told to help exorcise this debilitating curse: the curse of faith.
“The New Atheists will not let us off the hook simply because we are not doctrinaire believers. They condemn not just belief in God but respect for belief in God. Religion is not only wrong; it’s evil. Now that the battle has been joined, there’s no excuse for shirking.”
October 24, 2006
October 14, 2006
Want to get a better understanding of schizophrenia?
Play Second Life. Better hurry, though — the grey goo is taking over.
To boldly pay what no one has payed before
A model of the Starship Enterprise has sold for more than half a million dollars. Now, a costume worn by Picard (or 7 of 9) I could understand, but a model?
Is elephant culture on the verge of collapse?
Some experts think so and say the situation is a result of PTSD.
October 12, 2006
It’s funny because it’s true
Strangely enough, both neuroeconomics and surreal fetish clubs (NSFW) feature prominently in my next book, The Warhol Gang.
