Andrew Bird Coming to Indy Jan. 14

In case you don’t know who Andrew Bird is, check out this complete concert linked off of his website. It’s eerie how good his music is, really. Gives me goosebumps.

The Big O, and I don’t mean the anime series

I found this too amusing to ignore. Two peace activists have taken it upon themselves to initiate the Global Orgasm Project, scheduled for Dec 22 (Winter Solstice). Their hope is to focus, world-wide, positive energy and hopes for peace enhanced by the power orgasm.

What is most interesting to me is that they mention specifically the Global Consciousness Project at Princeton as an inspiration and basis scientifically for the project. If you’re unfamiliar with this research project, they describe their goal as being “to examine subltle correlations that appear to reflect the presence and activity of consciousness in the world” through scientifically “demonstrating that human consciousness interacts with random event generators (REGs), apparently “causing” them to produce non-random patterns.”

Their blog linked to this article in the San Francisco Chronicle which says some more about who the two originators of the project are. Sounds a bit nutty perhaps, or maybe even (Say it!) ballsy (tee hee!).

Musical Find

Just came across this new (relatively) Easy Star All-Stars album when I was on Pandora (the music genome project). In case you’re not familiar with them, they released a reggae/dub remake of Dark Side of the Moon in 2003 entitled Dub Side of the Moon. And now with another fantastic pun, we have Radiodread, just out in August. Self-explanatory what this is about by now, I’m sure. I heard “Let Down,” and it sounds great.  Toots and the Maytals still got it.

Whaa!

Zapato! “Serving The Paranoid Since 1997”

Uproariously funny group of websites! How could these possibly be real!? Check out the amazing Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie! (Not just for humans–try it on pets and infants, too!) And see my selection for the Most Confusing Graph Ever award on black helicopters!

Turns out that it is parody, according to crank.net. How else could you explain the wide variety of crazy topics hosted there, from the worship of Lord Kelvin to the Truth about Belgium?

And check out his great Linus Torvald wallpaper from his downloads section. Truly Amazing!