Competition vs. Cooperation

Competition breeds a better product, especially in a free market, where resources are plentiful. This takes more time, however.

Cooperation robs the individual of the Tony Starck-Effect, but the achievments can be far greater in a shorter period.

I think, for the purposes of discovery, cooperation is the best method. For the egomaniac, competition is the only option. This is why many, if not most egomaniacs fail.

- Posted using my iPhone

Negative Avatar Press

I feel, with many large releases that garner much attention from the Internet crowd - the fanboys, the trolls, the 12 year old boys - will always suffer reviews which are motivated by ego. Speed Racer was too colorful. Dark Knight was too dark. Bad press gets attention when a movie has this much publicity.

"I want to be different, not objective" feels like the mantra for many journalists reviewing this movie.


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Guilty Pleasure #22

Gyroscope plus world-class laser pico projector equals fun!
Also, the next generation of handheld gaming might require a firearms license in Canada.

Unrestrained Diarrhea of the Brain

More specific than just a boring old length of insomnia, but rather I'm doing alot of online reading.
I guess gathering information for all sorts of projects that I'd like to work on eventually. I figure where's a better place to talk about the internet than on the internet. It's like... why not contribute the results of my personal, somewhat insignificant fact-finding mission to the overall girth of the net. No one reads my posts, I'm no Doctorow. Alas.

Making a replica Jurassic Park Ranger outfit, I dont know why I thought this would be fun, it's just a khaki shirt with lapels with one or two logo badges sewn to the the sleeves. Finding the badge? Not so easy. So, after a bit of reading, I found Westerfield Studios, who is more than happy to ship internationally. The company also sells replica badges from Firefly and some from Lost. Business seems good and they've got new products on the way. The more well known competitor I think is The Intergalactic Trading Company. Same market, two URL's.

Another thing I've been interested in for some time is the notion of the wearable PC. Once you go down that rabbit hole you almost never ever find your way back. There are a host of different places to get information, but I finally discovered a de (waitforit) lightful wiki on the subject.  From here I learned a little more on the topic of HMDs (which has become troublesome after my main contender: Vuzix recently announced backorders on their new product the Wrap920). I learned about a man in Toronto who has an MIT doctorate and specializes in wearable computers.
Infact, Steve Mann practically invented the idea. Below is the actual image from the wearable computer entry from Wikipedia. I've, of course, seen this image before, but knowing I might be able to obtain his autograph...

 Currently he's teaching at UofT and oversees a project known as EyeTap.
The project really excites me and I'd love to be able to learn more. Judging from the website, this man is interested in receiving all forms of input including that from designers (not an engineer, not a computer scientist, what am I?). I plan on making the attempt at contacting him sometime before the holidays at his eyetap.org or UofT email address (though I worry because the site hasn't been updated in some time).
One idea that's crossed my mind is producing a series of questions for him and interviewing him for Urbane Magazine and perhaps using my production skills book a BB practice room and make it filmed and snappy.
Mann is an MIT post-doctorate. My chances of this dream being realized are slim.
I also located the supplier of most of the components for these projects - Tek Gear. A Winnipeg-based electronics supplier specializing in HMD and micro displays. 

What else? Looking at cyberpunk fashion online. I found an interesting wiki on the Cyberpunk Review website. A site I noticed iGargoyles work on earlier in the week.  Most of the links are dead, but it was fun to find. One thing I like the idea of is making a t-shirt (cotton or poly) with panels of bullet resistant kevlar.
Like this guy's shirt I found on German Xtrax website. I doubt this shirt exhibits any properties of bullet resistance, but hey, this exist in the world so they can be made better.

This shirt reminds me of Adam Savage's Kitanica MarkIV jacket. One of the best ways to drop $500 in my opinion.

The design of the MarkIV with it's spinal absorption padding has really made me think about how an pico-ITX based computer (Like the new version of Compulab's FitPC2i - due for January) into a wearable rig could work.

The idea of a slim-profile wearable rig isn't exactly new though.

Really though, all this focus came from was a sweater designed with love and care by Marc Ecko, and trying to find it online. To say the least it inspired me, but I've also been thinking of the idea of customizing a white sweater into a space suit - either NASA's EMU or the fancier Chinese Feitian suit.

Anyway, I plan on getting the latter from ebay. Marc hates Canada, and shipping thereto.

Firefox: beyond 25 tabs you're just playing with a toy.

Grossman said "The universe is speaking to me, if you listen closely"

The front page of Digg.com features three links.
The first is on tech growth from the BBC.
The Second is this

It gets a couple things right, but it's moot.

The third link is from Humanity+ winter issue and an article on the DIY Transhumanist.

Life...

Tie Patent Application

A tie loaded with:
A 3G (or even GPRS) radio.
An LCD of suitable size.

How it works. People get the tie. The tie is location aware, and is the output of the LCD is controlled by the data received from the radio.
This network is controlled by a company who represents ad agencies.

The display can be in the form of a pepsi logo, or something more elaborate like a full video commercial.
The tie will track the location of the user and this will be stored and compared to an existing model (the model may even be live updated via camera feeds) that track population density in certain areas of the city at certain times.

The tie wearer earns some revenue by wearing the advertisement and silently, but actively participating in the promotion of the product.

Now, throw in the concept of ad revenue developed by Google. The real-time auctioning of the ad space between competitors against a mathematical model ensures maximum revenue.

So, there you have it. I will attempt an early prototype someday soon

Theatre for the Future///

Ok, creative juice spiliage.

The only thing that will remain in entertainment that you travel to will be the seats. I mean, even movie theatres are passe because of HDTV. Maybe that's why the networks dragged it through the mud for so long.

But I imagine a building. Four walls and seats. That's about the only thing that could stick. I think for the most of it there will still be a screen, but maybe the audience will 360 around a stage in the center with massive holographic on display.

But that's only the half of it, the audience will at this point totally be interfaced with the digital world of this entertainment. Chemical smellovision? Don't make me laugh, this is about brain interface.

I'm sure the corporate collaborates of this tech will have varying disciplines of immersion. Like evolved models of the same product, which might be proportional to the experience. What I mean is brain-bugs (nano machines which facilitate this interface and latch on to neurons and synapses- and also possibly complex receptor sites) will evolve and newer forms of the tech will always increase in resolution over time. So, there's a huge class-aspect to it, money buys the experience. Ticket price does not relate to this at all and is something completely different. Infact, you might be able to enjoy the experience if you're complety un-modified. And I imagine that's how the baby boomers will approach this form of theatre.

I dunno if live actors come into this form of entertainment. It's a hard thing to predict. Especially if our relationship with the performers is what it is now. And that is to say human. If it were augmented in a way which allowed the communication of thoughts and feelings than it would be a completely different experience.

Imagine simultaneously watching a world-class dancer perform and yet be in sync with the thought process they're experiencing. The nervousness, and the excitement juxtaposed with elegance and the desire for perfection. And what if this dancer is genetically enhanced from birth? Than perfection would be altered, and it would become the norm. The feelings associated with this aspiration might also be muted, but new feelings would come over.

That's irrelevant. I imagine a theatre where the audience jacks in. The magnitude of resolution associated with jacking in changes with the consumers ability to have the 'latest and greatest' upgrade between the frontal and the occipital.

What does that mean? It means live performance might finally be given justice and finally have the capability of mass distribution.

I want to build transhuman entertainment.

My friend Ian...

My economic genius pal from the good old days in Bradford has sent me a few videos that all relate to the recent Climate-gate scandal. It appears that the most recent 007 flick, QofS, was actually more real than we thought. That's abstraction, here are the videos I've been watching.

That's Murry Rothbard.


Here's Van Rumpoy talking about EU's desire for World Government.

I wish I understood what side of this to be on.

On Adult Swim development deals...

If I ever happen to produce a cartoon for that network, make sure to end every episode by whatever character is in the last scene by breaking the 5th wall and saying "We're cancelled".

Like seriously, what adult swim show has gone beyond 3 seasons. Aqua Teen Hunger Force is the exception.

There are 38...

John Morgan's on IMDB.
I really wish I had more elaborate parents.

Adam Savage. Producers love him.

These guys have insurance?!?
I want to work Stateside when I grow up! Here you'd have to get that crane rated and examined by an engineering team. It would go through months of bureaucratic examination with a mustachio comb. Or maybe I'm wrong and on episode 213, M5 had more going on with this test than meets the eye.

The world would suck without The MythBusters.

Mice Feedback

Man, I would love it if Logitec made a mouse with force feedback. Not even for games, just as another sensory reception to information.
The mouse could signal email reception, or like... download complete. What Growl used to do on the Macs and what Windows always did. (mean and false, but patriotic)
Algo goes something like:
figure 2: mouse moving + timed period = yes
Figure 1: typing = no

Duh.

Can we please get this shit off the ground. I know some company has a patent on it, and besides its used in VG controllers by every one of the competing forces, so there's your lawyers whine-song right there.

Hello? World?!

M. Bay and Me

I respect this charismatic persona, but it's almost a giant reminder than it's not at all about the director sometimes. Sometimes it's what the people want and the well-educated snobs (I apologize for generalizing so much) will often be afraid of creating just that.

Bay doesn't seem concerned, what with his lucky streak, but I think of Spielberg and Close Encounters. Not a new idea. Poorly executed, though dramatic, very predictable. It was just a recycled story with recycled characters and concepts from stories 30 years old at the time. Aliens come. They leave. Duh. But the people wanted to see it with the intense production value.

Transformers is the same. Some cartoon a 20-something Bay enjoyed watching. Old characters, unoriginal story, but the people gobble it up.

I'm not defending the notion that originality is dead, but you must acknowledge that some films do better without it.

My inspiration

I'm 21. I'm not rich, people haven't started paying me for my taste of crazy yet.
I imagine it will be a while before they do, but I need to at least define what my crazy is.

My crazy is my experience with the human condition. Murder and betrayal. The love hasn't been experienced in a dose which matches in intensity. So, I'm 21. I am what I am.

My crazy could bear to see certain things happen that most people couldn't. I understand revenge, but I don't condone it. Revenge consumes the soul, and it has consumed me. I work to be free of my vengeful thoughts, but they're constant. I can only learn to accept them, as I must accept my mothers murder.

I don't understand many things. I can't find the bright side very easily.
I understand growth. I understand evolution and the cold, calculated process it uses.

The man who brought murder into my life wasn't the world we're taught in public school. It wasn't the world all these freshmen I'm supposed to be friends with live in.

It was the real world. And the real world is not built on love and generosity. These are tiny pockets scattered around the globe that sometimes get together to do great things.

The things accomplished in history by love are absolutely minute compared to what fear, and greed can accomplish. These solitary forces have more effect on the world.
I might be wrong, but so far this model stands up. I feel like I'm the only one who understands this model, and that scares me. I see 99% of the world as people who could never reconcile with this idea, 0.9% as crazy misfits who don't contribute and 0.1% are the movers and shakers.

I want nothing more than to use this rationale, this model I believe in to help me in the future, but so far... I worry I'm wrong.

I'm not saying I want to live a life of greed and fear. And being aware of these on the scale I've witnessed isn't easy. The line is very hard to see.

I see a populated galaxy in my life time.
I understand the relentless nature of evolution. Evolution is passion, and you're a fool if you think that passion won't kill you where you stand.

This is how I understand technological growth. This is what my gift is. This is all I have to offer and today I pledge to stop worrying it isn't enough and realize it's more gift than any human born before me.

Ghetto Stills

I've been on Flickr for years, but you can no longer link accounts and so here's reference to my old accounts. 

MorganSwarm

iPodamous



And now...

Realization

Medical science and philosophy combine to elaborate on the concept that many people alive today will live forever, thus altering the human condition forever.

But the idea that my life will stretch out that long.. it's stressful.
I can't manage with that thought and I wonder if suicide will rectify people who don't want to carry there share of responsibility for so long.

Then again, if you lived forever... you'd be very smart by the time you're 100 and still in decent health.

The realization is that one will need money for these therapies and they almost invalidate social health care.

Idea for a Plot (Two)

A method for finding intelligent life.
I hope no one else has come up with this, and if so, I hope I'm rich comes when the time comes I use this in a story.

A planet is reached by robots. These robots are controlled by a sect of humanity which has gone into deep technological acceptance. I expect this may be 2-5% of the population by 2080 or so, these will be the people who exist in both virtual worlds, but also the physical.

The body these people accept is the body of an entire, planet sized workhorse. This is the plan.
1) mine the planet with a PERMANENT system of mines.
2) construct probes capable of travel with some form of machine sentience to report on.
As these are launched the mines go deeper and eventually 100% of the planets matter is systematically reformed into full size civilization finders.

3) meanwhile on the planet construct and maintain massive sub atomic experiments using colliders much larger than what we have now. We could imagine it as a method of developing faster than light travel.

This means it could be likely the last of the planets finder probes as you might call them would be traveling possible to further into the center of the galaxy.

I suppose it would also not be a bad idea to engineer some physical form once this post human civilization finds others.
Human form might not be a terrible choice.

What if there are other forces in this galaxy.

Idea for a plot

Mythbusters.

The characters are analyzed the way Wes Anderson does in The Life Aquatic.

I'm not saying Grant should be J.H.'s son, but a feature that analyzed the stories between the characters would be cool.

The inside-joke element of how Hollywood works has already been successful with films such as Tropic Thunder, etc.

I think these elements combined is original, I know I'm wrong. But it would be a neat thing to see.

Roboballet (circa 2020's)

This combined with the hand motion in an earlier robot posted here equals robots in theatre. To within on tenth millimeter tolerances.

Granted MIT has performed a robotic opera, the speed and precision available now makes me believe in more elaborate robotic performers.

digital drugs. Or boosting. That would be a nice thing to gain popularity. All of the benefits, with all of the control.

untitled

I keep getting older. But the world stays the same age.

Ground Floor List

This is a rough draft of things I want to look out for.
A new addition to the list is... (Drum Role, please)

A licensed documentary that is produced by an INTERNATIONAL LICENSING ORGANIZATION on space travel and its origins.

An balanced perspective on both space travel from Russia, Canada, the US, China, and others. A documentary which is not produced by Disney or Discovery Channel.
By the time we live in a world where this can be made space travel will be mostly private anyway and about 1000 times less expensive. But that also means the demand for such a project would also be high what with all the recognition the technology gets. Space Elevator capable shipping between the super powers... in minutes.

If there is a person with aligned goals, I expect I'll put the effort into finding them when I'm around 40 or so.

A personal reaction to uncovering a new fact

For my first year after leaving York I lived in a neighborhood in East York, which is a slice of Toronto between the central city and Scarborough.
There was a park there, a park currently housing the Ontario Science Center.


This is the Earnest Thompson Seton park.

Why do I think this is personal? Because I know who this man is. This is the other side to the story of: The origin of Scouting. And I believe that modern Scouting has matured into E.T. Seton's image, rather than what Powell had planned.

Seton was a naturalist who experienced violence in his youth, and therefore there is a very strong anti-violence characteristic in his actions.

Powell was a man of war. He was a general, and used his 'Boy Scouts' for less dangerous missions during battles.

Can you spot the humanist? Is it difficult?

The reason I brought it up is because I respect Seton's approach and the value of understanding sustenance and resources, and also because the value of understanding these things now very much extends into a purely technological world view.

We can realize this by understanding:
a) how tech is involved in resource management (on global scales, and just some directions its going in.
b) understanding energy use and the mantra for renewable orbital solar systems.
c) being aware of what is required for a single human to survive.
d) how it is required for humanity to change is some profound way to survive the next century.

Technology is the basis for all growth in the modern world.
A new form of naturalistic thinking, the thinking of E.T., is emerging. A naturalist who understands the technological relationship as natural and inescapable. If we stop denying simple things like we need transportation and efficient farming, etc, then we can be better equipped to solve the problem with new ways of thinking. Ways that don't stigmatize modern culture the way PETA and others do.

A new form of education can be thought of. As naturalist and Scouting were crucial at the turn of the last century, teaching children of this era of the proper view of technology will eventually benefit.
Thus the Techno-Scout has been born. And I am their Powell.

Brain Activity

"We have more in common with each other than we will have in common with our future-selves".

I love the whole world...

and all its craziness...


So it's official: I WANT THE ROBOT DEVILS HANDS. And here they are captured on film for the first time.

The Future of John Morgan

I stand my ground. This is something about myself I know. I feel a powerful connection to my ideas - this is something that creates social disdain.

What do I know for sure about this world?
I am my only constant.
Society is the product of many, not few.
Social change is inevitable. History shows us that this is usually for the better.
Technological change will continue on its current path. The world will end if it doesn't.
Resources will continue to decrease

What do I think I know?
Love is dangerous - the most powerful human emotion. Love is a product of the collective unconscious as Jung would say. It is most-unwelcome in the posthuman experience. I accept that love can give us the most transcendent joy. It would be a failure not to imagine a compromise which maximized safety.

What do I want to do with what I know?
I want to do what I can. What I can to make sure the world happens as it supposed to. This is boastful. AS if I assume that my choices affect the very fabric of society.
Boastful, perhaps, yes.
To think otherwise would be to take a bite out of the lie that humans are invaluable. The concept of futility all people in the world are conditioned with more and more.

To be blunt here are my goals as an entrepreneur:

1. Use my ideas to write stories. Stories about a future. A future with humans.
   
2. I plan on culminating my experience with technical theatre training and transhumanist tendencies in a story that elegantly chronicles man and machine merging into Utopia. This is my Opera.
   
3. I plan on increasing awareness with subtle creations. Earl piercing LCD displays to my face, wearing an HD camera as a permanent fixture, etc. Moreso as time goes on these are minor ideas in infancy.
4. Promoting the concept of improving the human condition.
   
5. Suggesting to embrace a new faith based on these principles.
   
6. Researching 3D holographic projection - something that will occur during the nano-tech boom.
   
7. Researching brain-immersion technique. This will be the result of reverse-engineering the next generation of brain scanning technology. Something which will occur in the 2020's also.
   
8. Pioneering the interface.
   
9. Recieving the singularity to improve the rate at which my objectives in entertainment can be reached.
   
10. Continue preaching the advantages of moving beyond our limited range of experience as we have them now.
11. EXODUS and the story of reaching what Kurzwiel refers to as the sixth epoch.
    

In Toronto there is a hospital network, Princess Margaret. They've created a new ad campaign promoting cancer awareness. The new slogan is "It's amazing what can happen in our lifetime". Transhumanism is the new religion for the intellect. And the sub-intellect is dead.

I am 21. This is no more than reflection.

Discreet

If I had myself an extra 12 000 dollars I would easily go and get a pair of Bluetooth inner ear implants from the company behind investing in this little number.

But I'm trying to ask myself how this will alter peoples perception of me.
I suppose it won't be until we have an implantable processor - one, which is not at all noticeable by others that it will catch on.

However, the shoe on the other foot if someone like me - a transhumanist with money to blow, he would have an incredible advantage. Considering the price of bandwidth, this person could use the technology to be in constant communication with someone miles away.

Wired recently ruled, with gusto, that the bluetooth ear-job was out. Perhaps this is the replacement.

In anycase, if I can live my life like everyone else and receive auditory information in an additional layer. Well that's really advantageous. And people would be somewhat offended by this gross misuse of the technology.

And so the transhumanist has few options. If he wants to give the cause attention he can upgrade himself whether with cochlear implants or whatnot. But that will make people aware of the gradient. This makes it a social disservice, and the idea may be rejected.

Therefore only strict proponents to the idea will take the pioneering plunge as it were. But, it remains a question. Am I evil for being a pioneering transhumanist? Does seeking this kind of god-like advantage tell people more about myself than I can realize? It all depends on my philosophies, I suppose.

If I embrace it as a change everyone should experience.
As opposed to feeling that I am 'better' than others for having it.
Feeling the nirvana of experiencing something mainstream in the future.
Being able to know the trends to predict.

I wonder... if the inventor of the microwave felt that twinge the first time he cooked something on 'high'. Maybe, maybe not. But I know that twinge is felt by the engineer working at Philips in an OLED lab.

About a years worth of drafts...

Ok, so this is another big update, like the one below.
I am going to take from the 10-11 updates - which were never published - a few ideas and express them here.

1) Germany, The Singularity and WWII.
I am not a historical scholar, but I do tend to befriend people who are because of our mutual interest in a very, very militant transhumanist named Adolf Hitler. The connections made in this post were along the lines of Hilter being motivated the same way I and other H+ thinkers are motivated - a new world which belonged to something more than human. The argument was outlined to create distinct parallels between Kurzweil's masterpiece The Singularity is Near. The chapter I focused on is titled 'the promise and peril of GNR'.
Genetics, Nanotech, and Robotics.
If these are the ingrediants for a new world order circa 2009 than the German regime of the 30's and 40's was quite ahead of the curve. The robotics applications were contracted to IBM. One of the biggest information-based contracts of the time. Nanotech was in the shadows mostly, but you could go so far to say that tattoos are in some form nanotech related. Especially when you consider the logistics of tattooing countries of people.
And lastly, Hilter was a supporter of genetic superiority through misguided racial means.
That's that argument, there may be some more to study. We can learn alot from the past.*

2) TV is dead...
and online distribution is finally picking up speed now that bandwidth is cheap. This means the service provider model will change, and eventually if more networks decide to produce online media, net neutrality could again be an issue.
imagine though all that revenue dissapearing from all these service providers. Most, however (Shaw, ATT, Rogers) all provide internet service as well. But when talent like Will Farell and Danny McBride create enough buzz online only for HBO to renew Eastbound and Down for a second season... well no one in their right mind could dispute that's progress.

3) Microsoft Photosynth
Is a pioneer in holographic technology circa the 2020's.
It's a system that demonstrates what will be capable when we've made a little bit more progress with shrinking the transistor. Eventually a system of location aware cameras of incredibly high sensor density could capture an entire event in 3D using the same tactics. Basically bullet time + insane processing power will give us the recording method used in th film (retitle to 'entertainment') industry.

4) Clothing
made from luminescent material that can display different information and clean itself will be amazingly helpful and will be yet something more which will reduce pollution.

That's pretty much the cream of the unpublished crop for this blog of mine.
I bet no one can wait until this time next year for another half-assed batch of reject-ideas.
*(Please, avoid miscontrueing my words. Hitler was an evil sinner. I'm not defending his actions with my H+friendly attitude.)

'I drink to my Annihilation'

Ok, this is a preface to stream of recorded thought.
Please excuse the disparity between my thoughts and my words. Their reconciliation will occur at the point where I become a world-class writer.

I drink to my annihilation is an Aldous Huxley quote.
It was inscribed on the Soma-cup that was passed around in one scene or another in Brave New World. Alex Jones said in his film Endgame that the modern US culture stems from what was featured in that book.

That BNW is a blueprint for the way things are going.
Transhumanism is here for us though, Alex.

I don't know why Alex Jones is hostile towards the ideas of H+, but I agree with him that it's a product of globalization.

So, what do I need to do. What are the main ideas of transhumanism and how can I integrate them into my life? The bottom line is I need to write about every single hole in modern day society transhumanism beams through.
Whether its the enormous fact that all systems consist more and more of data only, or if its intelligent design. Calling out the trans formative nature of man, and the essential goals of humanity that are quite dark and concealed.

I drink to my annihilation is reminiscent of the term 'immanentize the eschaton' which has become trade mark with Will Gibsons new comic Doktor Sleepless.

I have also to acknowledge some other facts, more John Morgan specific, that I tend to be slightly off center on the lightness-darkness chart - in that I'm slightly more comfortable thinking about the negative consequence then the positive. This means I constantly consider the negative reward of transhumanistic thinking than the positive. Or the reward being more valuable if only I can take advantage of it.

But these ideas in popular culture, and even in the pioneering for the idea of transhumanism, seem stronger when they are true to bother the negative and positive consequences. Saying that Transhumanstic thinking and the singularity are the apocalypse reinforce the skeptics position. But also, inspire optimism. for if the world is destroyed then we are finally able to build it in whichever way we see fit.

The future of our species and the merger with machine is the most powerful idea throughout recorded human history. Important ideas are only important if they're also dangerous.

More notes to benefit myself: I need to form a blog on the dark side of the transhumanism movement.
Having said that, I am devoted to creating a transhumanism manifesto. A piece of writing that includes outlines for all proposed technology and current research. It would expose how these ideas relate to the current and future Western social climate including how quickly new trends catch on.
I'm tempted to title such a document: "Countdown to the end of Humanity" and I'm planning it will kick off the new grinding blog.
This blog may or may not be the home of the Human Recording Project, and I'm still deciding whether or not to link it to an instructibles account.

Remixing MJ is a big thing in the future...

So, MJ has died.
Honestly, I'm sad. This is how I feel. I like his music to the extent someone born in 1988 can enjoy pop from that era and earlier.

His personal life became such a destructive force in the time that I was paying attention.

This stigmatized all of what I listened to, usually because of the current mantra "all great artists in popular culture must reinvent their ideas to remain known"

Or something like that.

Because of this I had always anticipated a profound comeback in his career.
The growth of electronic music in his lifetime really made me think he was aware of the tools and would learn to make new sounds and express new meanings through his music. It always seemed likely to happen.

Now that he's gone, I think we will all learn to respect his work from the eyes of a young, hard-working man.

This brings me to my major point. MJ will be remixed. All artists will take from his work in some capacity or another.
The studio's understand the value of this kind of collaboration.

So, hold on, because MJ's musical talent has just become the new big thing.

The Second iPhone 3Gs in Canada

Ok. So. Friday June 19th the new iPhone went on sale here in Canada.
The Rogers location that was selling the unit was in the RBC tower, on Bay Street, in the Downtown Toronto financial district.

The Rogers location had a promotional opening time at 7:00 AM.
Here is a run through the events between last night and this morning.

6:00PM June 18th: Rogers flagship location at Yonge and Dundas Square informs me there is not yet a lineup, however several customer inquiries are flooding the lines.

6:01PM: Call the Bay Street location. They 'will be opening at 7:00 AM June 19th'. This makes them the earliest location open in Canada.

5:50AM June 19th: Make my way to the Subway Station.
5:55AM: Waiting on Subway Platform.

6:00AM: Subway trains start running east into the city.
6:20AM: Off Subway, making way through the underground Concourse that runs between King Station and Union Station and all the Bank towers.

6:30AM: Arrive on the scene. Indoors location makes the lineup kind of tricky. I am the third customer. We argue with the security guard about lining up infront of the store location.

6:31-6:59AM: Six more people line up, and wait for the doors to open. As civilized Canadians, we arrange ourselves by the order of arrival.

7:01AM: Doors open, there are 3 Rogers reps staffed today. I am immediately setting up my contract. 25.99 for the cheapest voice, 30.00 for the 6gb data plan.
$62.95 a month including access fee and 911.

7:19AM: Signing on the dotted line.
7:20AM: Paying the bill, walking out the door.

7:25AM: Walking above-ground, in the business part of the city with the fancy new iPhone. The Second 3rd Gen iPhone sold in Canada.

OK, so I just found out the tagline on IMDB for Kill Bill is "In the year 2003, Uma Thurman will kill Bill".

It's an interesting tag not only because of what recently happened in the news with the very talented David Carradine taking his life in Thailand, 6 years later.
But also because it goes between an actors name and a characters name.
Quentin associated Uma with the revenge motive, while Bill... Well Bill had to justify his actions or try to.
But it wasn't David doing the justifying. It was Bill. Uma was Beatrix, but David wasn't Bill?

This makes sense because of how Quentin consistently views Evil Forces in his work. As necessity, but still dehumanizing.

Oh, and I guess because they had to keep Uma's characters name secret until the last scene.

Facebookers has done it again.
I am now, forever locked into the URL: facebook.com/jdmorgan.
I can live with this, but some guy from Nashville got www.facebook.com/johnmorgan.
I'm not bitter, I technically had it first, but then freaked out and tested if an intermittent period in the name changed anything - it doesnt.
john.morgan and johnmorgan are directed to the same profile.
Which is helpful.
I remember the same was true for Gmail for a time - not sure if it still applies.

So, I'm JDMorgan, jdmorgan, J.DMorgan and j.d.morgan all at the same time.

It is concise and it will work. It also seems that it's more restrained than johnmorgan.

I'm currently having an identity crisis.

just a minor piss-off

Firefox is good but...
When the memory capacity is exceeded and I don't get a warning, I miss alot of the bookmarks I'm saving.
I know what you're thinking: modern architecture doesn't really require bookmarks, you can always just recall your input values and searches will populate the same results.
It does if you're apartment hunting.

Theatre Stunt en Francis

Ok, so the field of theatre these days means more and more: telling a story through technology.

Or amplifying a story using technology.
This considerably lowtech puppet was built and moved through this French town.
The movement revolved around telling a story, and it looks to have been effective.
There is a link here. Thanks Divine Caroline!



Like ringing a giant bell, this team of two jumps from a platform to put weight on the mechanism that makes the beast walk.

Everywhere I look the future is happening

Ok, so it is the current top slot on Digg.com: Futurama has officially been renewed for another season. Humans are excited for the future.

Since the beginning of this sport of TV, the networks never renew series.
Ideas come and go, and when they're gone.
The truth: things like the stories of Serenity from people like Wheadon and Futurama are ahead of their time.

But they follow the pattern because they came back.
Sure, that only happened because of the internet, but still.
The Lone Gunman was never renewed, and sort of fits the category here.


The other piece of news comes from a new favorite blog to supplement the readers of Doktor Sleepless. The article originates from New Scientist. A rather dense blog to supplement the magazine of the same name (to which I'd like to subscribe).

Apparently the kids in the science faculty I used to belong to at York have proposed a supertall structure design.
It uses hollow, flexible tubes and lightweight gas to create a pneumatically grown tower.
This is really got me excited.
If we can start working the kinks out with this project than we'll be really prepared with some new ways of thinking when carbon nanotube technology becauses viable.

These new ways of thinking are critical.
[Link]

AI in the future!

Guy in car coming home from work. Let's call him Jim.
2028

Jim is walking out of his office in the early afternoon after an especially bad day.
He is engaged in a conversation with an AI companion that is analyzing his PAN (Personal Area Network? So like, the nanomachines in his heart and lungs, some muscles, and what have you. His hand held device, and whatever visualizing device we have, so like... glasses with projectors)

AI: Jim, how are you feeling. Is everything ok?
Jim: Yes, how are my current stats looking?
Jim sees a representation of the AI as a gorgeous women who appears as a full resolution augmentation via stereo holographic scanning.
AI: Stress levels are a little above normal; heart rate and breathing.
Jim: Recommendations?
AI: A jog and I'll start preparing a new meal plan with the home appliance network

Jim walks to his car, enters.

Jim: Car, ignition. Manual Control.
Car: Car is active!
Car: Where do you want to go Jim!
Jim: Ugh, no car. Manual control.
Car: Rear sensors indicate not safe to do so! Auto control!
Car: Rear sensors clear! Safe for manua- not safe! Auto- Rear sen-
Jim: Fuck, car. Drive home.
Car: Auto control, Jim?
Jim:...

A speculation between man and machine in a soonish timeline.
Jim has a shitty old car, I'm afraid. A 2019 Aludillac Spectrion.

The Amish. I love them.

Do the Amish consider themselves activists?
I highly doubt that's a motivation, but rather a side effect.

I was just reading the entry on green anarchy through Wikipedia.

Made me think of it.
Green Anarchist's, to me, seem like normal people too stubborn to just deal with it like the Amish. Get on board with Jesus and live in the same space.

Or don't develop a evolved context of Good with these people, like through mutual respect and call it a Green Colony.
Circa 2041.

If that fails, make the air psychoactive, through nanotech medicine transfer.

Thinking of those Culture Preservation's from TransMet.

New Watch

I own a Suunto Core wrist watch now.
And for future benefit I have to link to an updated sea level barometric reading.
Thank Atheismo for Wolfram|Alpha.

Lost Season Five: A look back

Ok, so Lost season finale was a few days ago. Being late on the report will not stop me. Because I feel obligated to share so important connections I've made (and apparently so has JJ).

J.J. Abrams as he is represented on Wikipedia

Current views of reality do not take into consideration the existence of time travel.
Speaking now of the minute scale of quarks in sub atomic experiments. These experiments are of course subject to the (albeit, in a droning tone) Law of Accelerating Returns. This makes time travel in the not-too-distant future plausible.

If JJ is an informed young man he no-doubt knows this.
What does this have to do with Lost?

Consider this idea: if time travel does exist in the close future (100-200 year time frame), in a way we can't yet imagine perhaps every moment of reality is the subject of alteration of our future-selves meddling in the past. Or perhaps not our future selves, but our godly offspring that transcends time, i.e. the neohuman singularity.

If this is the point of Lost then the nanomachine smoke makes sense, and the immortal Jacob. Both elements of very common science fiction based on technological trends of today.

So, how about JJ on Star Trek? Alternate time line created albeit accidentally but with the same, subtle ramifications. My current concept for Lost season six would be to have them in the future utopia where the world benefits from the power of the island (and hopefully also technology advancement), but it's clear that the island is somewhat of a metaphor for this trend.

A trend that is a major plot point in JJ's other work, Fringe.
Putting these pieces together is nothing new, but establishing that technology can be a spiritual guiding light is not.

This is what I believe we have here: a child of a technology era with a very special insight on how humans change themselves, and what it can mean on a flexible timescale. The latter of which is something he seems more focused on than me.

Yet, I think it is very clear that JJ Abrams does have an expectation for the Singularity. He seems motivated by this belief that the world is accelerating into something out-of-control.

My last point of evidence comes from the name of his production company 'Bad Robot'. Two words when combined spell the WORST CASE SCENARIO for future intelligent machines.

A Symbol

I want to get a tattoo. As several things have changed in myself in these recent months (culminating with my acceptance to Ryerson Theatre School) I feel I should immortalize my feelings. I want to get a tattoo.

So, it turns out the field of body modification is itself rapidly accelerating.
As we speak, med school mad scientists push the envelope for what can be done with the equation science + lust for piercings.

But, after doing minor research in the field I think the safest, most methodical process today is getting inked.

Sure, stitching the symbol I want with tiny I-hook piercings and thread (or oled wire)would be cool, but that's a lot of piercings and alot of upkeep. Alot of upkeep. Like a life-altering amount of upkeep.

So a tattoo it is.
But where? On the back of my head where it can easily be hidden with hair in my later adult life (or not).
The symbol?
'1.0' (no quotations) on the back of my head above the neck. In an OCR font, the one invented, or at least postulated by Ray Kurzwiel (think: credit card font).
Dark black.
I have to also tackle the challenge of keeping my head shaved and conditioning the skin.

Midway through July will be my goal for this experiment.

Let's see how focused this is at the end...

Ok, one big problem in my life is the following.
One of the things I'm working to resolve and build is the following.

Problem: beaming virtual reality into my consciousness.
At present, it's working ok with the current platforms at my disposal. Which are the same as almost everyone else. (Bluntly speaking, the LCD display is to what I'm referring) I'm implying the role of the evolution of technology to achieve our current champion).

But it is changing and it is changing quickly. It will plateau at this standard before it fully extends into a nanotechnology manifestation of our wild imaginations (though I am fully certain of that inevitability). This standard will be the minituraization of displays using lasers and continually shrinking, transistor-based displays (LCD >LCOS >OLED).

Consider for a moment the pico-projector. An invention that is the direct offspring of Moore's law of shrinking transistors and established digital light projection miniaturized mechanics. This is a sign that things are picking up. Although I immediately believe that projected displays creating a 15"-40" 2D image will lose popularity fairly quickly because of their lack of ease-of-use and tedious requirements (dark space, mostly blank wall, etc) I also believe that this will be a result of the current pico projector quickly transforming into two things: 3D projector with no spatial requirements such as a full 3D figure or a representation of a 2D screen in front of you (using nanotechnology and 'shape-shifting' particles to create a screen - something I have discussed in other notes - or, something that is an immediate variant of RealD's successful polarization technique). The other thing it will evolve more quickly into will be a new generation of HMD's.

Which brings me back to the topic of this wearable computer discussion, the method of absorption.

Likely this is where the wearable screen will come from. Frames with projectors in them. With or without glass.

The little white earbuds of tomorrow that block out the sun. (poetic expression fail)

But for today it would seem that the best technology is coming from lcos projections on semireflective glass. The new Vuzix product seems to be the first mainstream resale of a product like this. Though there are several other promising start ups.

These doors are just starting to open. Cell phones are gonna take on a much more permanent fixture on your face. And everyone will be plugged in.

This is where it will stay for a while. Before the singularity approaches these will likely be the communication tools of the futures.

I have to say that this is most certainly a problem I am working on. I would like to repurpose a pair of Vuzix glasses into a more retromorphed goggles. Passive augmentation at this scale, but access to Wikipedia/Google and a way to mount a video recording assembly.
Information availability and record keeping would be the goals I'd hope I can achieve my this time next year.

Using material understanding, seam stressing and basic understanding of current electronics I feel that one could achieve such a task.

These devices are on their way in, but a decision to do something like this would show leadership.

Multipurposing Scaffolding...

As a loft bed to make room for a sofa and desk underneath.
I have found a couple Toronto-based resellers of the required materials, here(Russ Dilworth) and here (Don Fry), but I imagine that their stock may not be as wide as all of what's online. I have yet to verify this suspicion at the time of writing.

Online pricing suggests that $200 for a couple used frames and ledgers to go inbetween is reasonable and somewhat conservative from my perspective.

The advantage to buying a kit online is the powder coating option available.
The compromise would be to paint (with equipment and professional supervision) the used tubes and frames to make them appealing in a domestic environment.

The goal I'm considering now is to use a pair of frames that are 5 feet wide (exact for a queen mattress), and cross bracing diagonally.

I think that ScaffoldMart.com has something very close to what I want.
This image really reflects my intention, and of course, online material has that powdercoated edge.

Toronto's Phallus #1

The CN tower is nice, sure. But it's effectiveness as a land-based radio transmitter really is cut in half because it's so close to the lake.

None the less I feel it would be sufficient in getting a signal dispersed across most of the city.

...like a wifi signal.

The fact that it exists is quite pleasing. We can repurpose this engineering marvel to something current (or future) fairly easily.

I must embed this. This is how I react to these people in real life. Not because they're nerds. But, because they're successful nerds.
I hope Intel does a series of these advertisements staring some of their newer ideas like wireless power.

3D computing

Aside from IBM's racetrack memory, there would appear to be a new form of three-dimensional memory.

The technology uses "loops of gold wires link the chips together and to an underlying circuit board". It must be a form of self-organizing nanotechnology.
The new start up coming up with this, planning on coming out 'next year' is called Vertical Circuits.

Things to look out for....

Singularity University

SingularityU will be a big disappointment if it lasts only a year or two.

It would be nice to see the school succeed for several years.
I imagine that this time next year I will be considering asking the beginning questions such as:
Do I need a fully achieved degree in order for acceptance?
What kinds of things next year do I want to focus on next year for my tech portfolio?
I've considered the latter question in some other notes of my personal questions.

This entry is actually an attempt to record this idea so it means more in a future date.
The fee of the school is actually quite reasonable, and I imagine that competition will be fierce.
I can be very vague, but certain that my base in theatre will eventually lead to understanding the motivation in creating the next form of the theatre technology. Including capturing and projection (including eventually consciousness projection through AI controlled network of nanomachines in the brain. These are the products of the future being established, disguised in our everyday-advancements.
I feel that that's enough focus on the Singularity to make my presence at the school valid.

When I was looking up the original Digg article imaged above I witnessed the overall trend since 2006 (New Digg feature. Helpful).
The mark of focus on this idea from Digg users is really optimistic.
If we compare the same trend with the Google user data we see the following:


So, what we see very pronounced in the USA (using Digg), we can also see when we compare all countries and a wider user range. It takes a little bit of imagination, but it's there. A fun, new link is 'here'.

My NEXT Camera #2

Ok, so molecular imaging is coming far in news this week.
Prediction: Digital camera's are reaching a point of ultrahigh resolution - the finale would be the ability to image the location and movement of every molecule in a 3D system. The issue is with the scanning time involved


Anyway, this is not a new idea (even I've made mention to it in the past). But it has some attention in the news.
Published by Wired News, there is a new contender for fastest camera. With this new design "Light itself moves just a fraction of a centimeter in that time."

It would appear the road trip to California has a little bit of ammunition: at UCLA, Keisuke Goda focused on this idea of serial time-encoded amplified microscopy (STEAM).

Anyway, interesting stuff.

Future Talk

Ok, here's a question for you in the transhuman movement: how do you think we'll evolve the first example of multiple hearing channels?

The hearing-brain interface is well studied - would it be an augmentation at the brain level - in the perceptual regions? Would it be the augmentation of the cochlear nerves through more mechanical means?

I argue for something stimulating nerves electrically from within the processing center.

For what it's worth, I hope this one happened sooner on the time frame as it would be a superb transhuman trait to carry on multiple, simultaneous conversations at once.

By the time we reach this point though would auditory perception be describable in these terms. Perhaps by default we will gain infinite channels of input at this level.

Talk about the voices in my head.

Note: these combined with optical nerve modification it could be possible to create virtually super high resolution images of people as if they exist in reality. As if we're always with someone invisible (Like our AI counterpart).

What would the implications of a society talking to random people be like? I suppose it might be like cell phones today. Perhaps through you're own implant you would see that there was something there, but perhaps it would be blocked. And your OptiNerv Implants would inform you thusly.

But back to my original question: how will multiple-channel audio processing evolve in humans?

Why Whedon Wrules

Ok, just a very important point to make about Joss Whedon's success with the Firefly series and also with his more recent work with NPH.

Mal's crew and the entire universe took place in a time frame that is only extended from ours. There is no gamble on intelligence in space, there is only the inevitable point to work with that 'Humans will continue to change'

This, has always been, our best feature. We are evolving right in front of our eyes and compared to Star Wars or any other popular franchise it rules out things we have little chance of accomplishing and it really exaggerates what technology we have today.

River is a super hero. We have grown up in a society that would like to see the super hero, and would do many things for it.

Including taking away that super hero's rights and freedoms to accomplish it.

The show just asks these rhetorical questions of the audience. It questions the morallity of the human race by staying focused on just one species. No BORG here to write for. This is why it's good. And this is why the fans are so focused on it.

This point can be further extended to his later work with Dr. Horrible. No super powers. Nothing that we don't make ourselves. No free rides.

This really connects to the modern human experience. Without even really drawing the focus to that fact. It just points out the obvious to the newer generation.

In the background it also really illuminates the fact that the human decisions being made are still human. The technology involved changes the game a bit, but the human decisions are always flawed in some way, Dr. Horrible's inventions are his undoing.

Automated Camermen 2

The machines would be able to self organize via GPS and modify configuration.
Here the system has been adapted as a rail for the camera to follow while recording.

Autonomous Cameramen Continued

If the robot recognizes the position of each camera actuation and compiles that data with the video (which would be aided by currently existing RealD 3D technique) you could produce a much more stable and information-rich model of what you're filming.

This would be an advantage for next-generation holographic display.
Multiple units such as these could act in synchronization in capturing a scene for 3D use.

The green and blue regions (x and y axis actuations) outline where the AI system would receive the position information from. Also note the Segway/PUMA design, for maximum stability.

Robotic Cameramen

A feature that is likely to recur.

But I want to focus on something specific about that idea, if you have a camera system, that could be fully actuated, and fast; would it be possible to scan an area completely in 3D with multiple cameras and a good use of thinking software running on fast computers, thereby replacing green screens completely, because you could just replace the backdrop in a camera generated 3D image?

I think yes, in the holographic age, yes.
(Patented Pending)

Eyes on Evolution

First there were organisms. Sensory input from directly proximal stimuli.
Then eyes, which reflected light coming from a distance.
Then language. We could explain what we saw and convert the information into something that 'accelerates learning'.

Then the photograph. Harnessing computation at the molecular level and creating a read out for others to see.
Digital sensor - a universal mathematical readout of an image in binary. Further unifying the interpretation in both the human and machine world.
Digital cameras outsell performance film cameras in the consumer market. Then the prosumer market. Then the professional market.

This is the perfect example of the Law of Accelerating Returns because each of these paradigms were only possible because of the mindset that the previous paradigm had left behind.
It also illuminates how short those paradigms last for as they continue.

In my head the difference between a D90 and a D70 from Nikon is more than 5 years. It's closer to 50 years of research in a Bell Laboratory in 1890.
But, but, but....
No buts! These are the factors:
-more people using cameras.
-more people talking to each other about cameras.
-more people (this is crucial) buying cameras.
-more camera companies.
-more camera research (sensors, lens, etc)
-the fact that this research comes from more than the camera industry at an accelerating rate (space telescope development, cameras mounted on rovers, image detection technology, etc) because...
-more people from outside the industry are doing experiments and research and combining ideas online.

Am I pointing to a super-duper camera? No, I'm just making an unprepared argument for Accelerating Returns as a fact and not a concept.
Obviously, very briefly.

My NEXT Camera #1

Ok, so I would like to outline a feature that should exist in the camera of tomorrow. I numbered the tag in the title because I plan on discussing this more as time goes on.

Ok, so a tool I use sometimes is a BIC lighter. Aside from it's obvious function, it is also a very perfect scale anemometer with a really good feedback.
So you can measure tiny air currents.

Ideally I can observe that from a single position. With a 200MP plus system, and developed intelligence systems could probably calculate changes in air flow. Dust particles. On that note a camera that could scan the movement patterns of the dust in a projector beam. I think this is a feature that will be available in the not too distant future.

One thing you might be able to do is plane a 3D cubic grid over the image and move a flame around to see how the wind reacts.
As supercomputing abilities shrink to the size of a camera this will be a standard feature.

3D holographic anemometers that work from scanning ONLY photon movement from a single perspective.

A favorite movie scene

Ok, so I'm rewatching Pulp Fiction. This is probably in my Top 5 list of movies.
I want to talk about the scene with Mia and Vincent Vega. When they get to the restaurant. The swoop that follows Vincent as he makes his entrance.


Incidentally catches the entire elaborate set and hundreds of stand ins.
Anyway, the point Mia makes during that bit of dialogue is that human communication through silence is equally as good as language. Especially for the more subtle forms of communication. When we're trying to communicate interest or love - as she was with Vincent.

She also argues that making conversation for the sake of avoiding silence is redundant.
This are things that I believe in.
I'm happy a movie as popular as Pulp Fiction takes the time to point this out.

What you don't know (can hurt you)

You don't know who I am or what my angle is. And you never will. No one will.

Kanye still doesn't get it

Ok, so if you ever get made of on South Park for having a screw-ball Napoleon complex and don't get it, that's fine.



But then you struggle like a 17 year old kid from a meth-home trying to get a 50% pass on an Essay focused on MacBeth. Apparently Kanye thought it was funny and has gone through the process of informing his fans of his agenda that includes "[MAKING] PEOPLE BELIEVE [HE'S] NOT ACTUALLY A HUGE DOUCHE"

I really don't think you get the joke, Kanye. But this is what Matt and Trey were expecting. If Kanye had deviated from this at all it would have seemed much less desperate.
Caps lock. Really? Writing this in full caps lock. You're retarded.
This really was a surprising thing to see. The internet is home to strange and wonderful, but this is really odd.
I hope I'm looking foolish here and it wasn't him personally but judging by the comments on the Digg submission and his blog that seems wishful. The positive thing is that he's not suing or worse.

OLED Achievment!

I'd like to take a very brief moment and discuss a couple things I've just recently uncovered.
The first item is coming to me from the blog Engadget.
The new development of OLED material is always good news, but this brings me to the second item: The Fast2Light Project - a group consisting of AGFA-Gevaert, IMEC, Holst Centre and Philips in addition to some Universities.


This project is spearheaded by manager Mary Kilitziraki. In an interview about a year ago, she seems to really understand the developments in this field. She is devoted to dethroning the current OLED technology which utilizes various layers of plastics and metals. She understands that the flexible display technology of tomorrow need also be fully transparent if need be.

This is what she was focused on a year ago when she talked to OLED-INFO.COM

Now, she has succeeded. The old material indium tin oxide is out.
Fast2Light's Orgacon is in.
One step closer.

JDM HQ

This is 70 images on my D90 stitched together. I tried to edit the control points to optimize it, but I still have a couple things to focus on in the future:
1) The bright orange shelf over my desk is difficult to warp properly, some orange 'fuzz' surrounds it.
2) The closet door is considerably out of proportion more than the windows.
3) The light coming through makes a reflection pattern ( you can see it as those green waves across the book shelf)
4) Too much vignetting, avoid the cir. pol filter.

Happy Easter

I waited until today to buy work pants/shoes/belt and forgot about this obsolete holiday.
Ooops, apologies to Randy Marsh.

Sanctum Piter oteum, Deus ore uneum
Hippitus hoppitus reus homine
In suspiratoreum, lepus in re sanctum
Hippitus hoppitus Deus Domine

Kanye didn't get it.

Ok, so last night's South Park was a great deal more welcome than last weeks Queef sisters. It was focusing yet even more on the demented thinking process of Eric Cartman, and how he augments his reality to satisfy his desires.



It was pretty good, but the best part of it was the dis towards Kanye West from Matt and Trey. They obviously dislike the man for some good reasons, and this episode with the fish dicks joke really summed it up.

Carlos Mencia: You're a gay fish... man. C'mon man.
Really terrific stuff last night.

Hey, this is neat.

Segway and GM for the win on this electrical car.
Zero turning radius reminds me of Speed Racer T180 design.

Seth Rogen

Seth Rogen hosted SNL this past weekend. I've just got around to watching it. All this episode did for me was made me love Bill Hader more.


Earlier this season John Malkovich was on the show and Bill was in the Skit "La Revista Della Televisione", in which Bill always does very breif impersonation of the guest. His J.Malkovich is really hilarious, and he got to do it again a week ago pretending to be talking to Seth Meyers about Bernie Madoff in the Malko-guise.

Anyway, he burned Seth Rogen this week in the same way, really capitalizing on Rogen's AM announcer voice. These two are really good on screen together.
That image is a retitled movie poster from Superbad used in the skit. Seth is bearman.

Panorama Art

I took these earlier today and using a trial piece of software called PTGui, created this:

Enjoy.

Eeny Teeny Maya Moe

This season is shipping up to include some of the best episodes ever. I'm saying that as a Simpsons-Child (circa. 1988) and having experienced a lifetime of Simpsons episodes these recent episodes starting with Gone Maggie Gone from about 5 weeks ago.

The new 720p standard has actually raised the bar in other respects we are seeing.
This week's episode stars an A-plot with Moe. This is his best performance in drama. He loses faith at the end, but things are turned around with just truly original conception. Moe's fragility is a recurring theme. But he is rewarded at the end with some good advice.
This one is Emmy-worthy. The most emotional episode yet.

Accepted

This is the model I made for a portfolio and my letter from Ryerson University.

POWER

Ok, so I was discussing this the other day with a compadre. What automobile has more appeal: electric or petrol? Especially in terms of power.
Consider the oil industry's opinion of GM's EV1? They destroyed that.
It makes me consider the episode of The Simpsons where they go to Epcot and enjoy a ride called 'The Electric Car'. The ride was sponsored by the oil companies. Between the current geek-favorite: Tesla and the newer Shelby Ultimate Aero EV old stereotypes of electric motor drive trains are disappearing.

The later mentioned EV includes "twin 500 horsepower electric power plant producing 1,000 horsepower in a 2 or 4 wheel drive configuration" - this is the new power plant that electricity promises. Although I suppose it's not as obvious as when you look under the hood and see an equally impressive V12. But that's part of the paradigm shift that we're in the middle of. People that grow up and experience electric cars dominating in motorsports will have a much different understanding of transportation.
There is a good chance that our generations experience which was initially shaped by Petrol performance will be one of the more enlightened as electric systems continue to take over.
The most recent development I want to bring up is the Hydrogen Cell concept from my favorite company of all: Mercedes Benz.
The F Cell concept looks more like a stage coach than a normal auto. I'm surprised that it's not toting iCoach for Mercedes as an autopilot system.


It's time for a paradigm passage in progressing power.
But the question is, what's more powerful? The old or the new. I think you know my stance.

The news I love to blog about!

Incredibly exciting news. News that reaches me on a very personal level. This news - news of an intelligent, problem solving robot at Aberystwyth in the UK has reached my ears.



I know very little about the project, I do know that it has worked and isolating gene's and their functions in brewers yeast. The advantage to the automation is that it could carry out 1000 individual gene experiments a day, deriving information from a massive encyclopedia of varied samples gene mutations in the yeast.

The noted discovery in the article from New Scientist explains that the robot dubbed ADAM had identified several genes and hypothesized which 3 encode an enzyme important in producing the amino acid lysine - it was tested by humans and was accurate.

Although this is on a small scale, and the experiments were part of a series, the robot was still able to guide the direction of new experiments it performed from what it new in the previous set of experiments. A learning system. The incredible efficiency of this new intelligence is increasing so rapidly. The tools that will be available to us in 5 years, 10? It's unimaginable.

The Prof. at Cambridge who's quoted in the article imagines "robots may even be capable of conducting truly independent research".

I postulate that the December 12, 2012 doomsday prediction will be the advent of machine intelligence. When I search for 'Artificial' on 2012predictions.net I find nothing. When I Google predictions that early very few items can be found.

At any rate we are on track to have it sooner than we realize.


The other thing from today's news I wanted to talk about is the unanimous approval and submission of an immediate press release from a company called VisionCare discusses a new form of micro technology lens design. This company, according to their website, have tested this in 200 clinical trials.

More and more proof everyday that we are the ultimate, evolving species.

THIS JUST IN

Think Geek has announced the following new products this years April Fools!
Included on the list of new items is a pair of shirts for an imaginary 100 dollars that offers the portal technology from GlaDOS. The shirt has an LCD display and a wireless camera to emulate the effect. Ha ha ha, I love this Holiday so much!
Among other things they also have released a USB pet rock.
Visit the site, today only!!

April Fools

Hey all, it's April 1st and here it is. The most foolish day of all!
In Australia it's already tomorrow, or at least it's been tomorrow for a bit longer. They've put on a prank concerning a football with a GPS unit inside. Actually not that unlikely, but that's the deal with these pranks is that they blur the line between fantasy and possibility each year to confuse us.
CADIE is also quite awesome, Google is really making me laugh tonight.
Anyway, the only other folks worth mentioning who are celebrating today is the pirate bay.

Tomorrow, Think Geek should have some fun stuff on their site.