Lately i have read and heard many. different people make mention to the philosophy behind the origional star wars, the following article is somewhat of a start to exploring that topic.
May the Force be with you. Utter this famous line and there’s no mistaking it. You’re referring to the driving force (pardon the pun) behind the Star Wars world of exploding planets and intergalactic wars. But what exactly is it? In the words of the character Obi-wan Kenobi, a Jedi knight:
“The Force is what gives the Jedi his power. It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.”
Link: The Tao of Star Wars
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Chimpanzees in Senegal have been observed making and using wooden spears to hunt other primates, according to a study in the journal Current Biology.
Researchers documented 22 cases of chimps fashioning tools to jab at smaller primates sheltering in cavities of hollow branches or tree trunks.
Link: Chimpanzees ‘hunt using spears’
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Although this game is in another language it should be easy enough for you to work out how to play it . To start off just move your mouse over the white ball.
Have Fun !
Link: Oshidaman
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These would go down a treat with a bit of bangers and mash i tells ya !
In fall of 2006, the Guinness Book of Records confirmed that New Mexico State University Regent’s Professor Paul Bosland had indeed discovered the world’s hottest chile pepper, Bhut Jolokia.
Bhut Jolokia, at 1,001,304 Scoville Heat Units (SHU), is nearly twice as hot as Red Savina, the chile pepper variety it replaces as the world’s hottest. A New Mexico green chile contains about 1,500 SHUs and an average jalapeno measures at about 10,000 SHUs.
“The name Bhut Jolokia translates as ‘ghost chile,’” Bosland said, “we’re not sure why they call it that, but I think it’s because the chile is so hot, you give up the ghost when you eat it!”
Link: world’s hottest chile pepper
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In a tragic loss of knowledge , Terrence McKenna entire collection of books and personal notes has been lost in a fire started by a fast food chain restaurant. The only thing salvageable is list of all the works it contained.
Terence’s brother Dennis owns an index of Terence’s collection, which will at least give us an overview of his library—sorta like a playlist without the MP3s. But even this valuable document will not replace the body of knowledge itself—a body that had become, in the weird ways of the memetic world, a kind of second body for Terence’s fabulous and fascinating mind. No budding head will ever be able to poke through this collection again, with its faintly perfumed volumes on Chinese alchemy and butterflies and hash. And the world has one fewer 1659 folio of Isaac Casaubon’s A True and Faithful Relation of what passed between Dr. John Dee and some spirits, and one fewer old-school copy of Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy, which Terence swapped for a pound or two of yummies back in the day. The content of these books, at least, is reproducible; Terence, of course, was one-of-a-kind.
Link: Terrence McKenna Library Burnt Down
Terence McKenna
An nice textured interview with William Burroughs and David Cronenberg.
Deep in Kansas, darkly dressed, William S. Burroughs, a man who shot his wife in the head and waged war against a lifetime of guilt, who has sucked up every drug imaginable and survived, and who has made a fine career out of depravity, can’t on this particular afternoon take another moment of a simple midwestern housefly buzzing around his head. “I can’t stand flies,” grumbles the seventy-seven-year-old author in that distinctively sepulchral voice, which retains a vestige of his St. Louis roots despite his many years on another planet. The fly swoops down onto Burroughs’s plate of cookies. “Terrible,” Burroughs exclaims, exasperated, attempting to backhand the fly into oblivion.
Link: Interview with William S. Burroughs and David Cronenberg
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If your reading this then chances are your sitting down at your computer so this might interest you. Yesterday i was doing the same thing and realized my back was getting sore from slouching, so i did a little searching and discovered this article on the best ways to sit at your computer to avoid back pain and too my surprise I had one of those exercise balls sitting in the next room !
The reality of modern day information work is that most of us spend a good chunk of our time each day seated in front of a computer. I’m big on time maximization so my feeling is that if we’re going to be on a computer all day why not make the best of it. The problem with poor posture is that eventually over time it leads to injury.
Link: The Four Best Ways to Sit at Your Computer
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