big brother
i like sissy. and scott really is cute.
when anoushka discovers her new housemates have put her up for eviction it should help shape her for staying in.
jon might perhaps be intelligent, but i'm biased against his vocal delivery. he could turn into an alex, who's anal snobbery last year became a part of his endearing charm. boot jon out if thats the choice.
no older housemates this year. cameron looks the oldest.
the nominations for eviction are: anoushka, federico, jon, scott.
how are they feeling now that they know? day one.
Friday, 23 May 2003
ok. apparently this site will re-appear sometime around 4 a.m. meanwhile i'll settle in front of the telly screen for the start of big brother 4.
bb is what telly was invented for, yet as much as i look forward to it i doubt i'd ever apply to participate on it. mainly because its almost impossible to get beyond people's assumption that big brother participants are only doing it for fame.
on that subject, the concept of fame in the 21st century is surely as redundant as the concept of privacy. i'll expand on that thought later perhaps. another big brother cliche surfaced a short while ago when i was at f's. i mentioned i was looking forward to tonight's bb start and a friend of her's responded by saying "get a life." its that tired knee-jerk belief that screen life (telly, mobile or mac) is somehow inferior to so-called real life. the sort of sleepwalking ideology sponsored by white dot in their anti-tv book thats titled "get a life". they say "extropian's think the end of biological human beings is a great idea. white dot wrote this book because we don't."
bb is what telly was invented for, yet as much as i look forward to it i doubt i'd ever apply to participate on it. mainly because its almost impossible to get beyond people's assumption that big brother participants are only doing it for fame.
on that subject, the concept of fame in the 21st century is surely as redundant as the concept of privacy. i'll expand on that thought later perhaps. another big brother cliche surfaced a short while ago when i was at f's. i mentioned i was looking forward to tonight's bb start and a friend of her's responded by saying "get a life." its that tired knee-jerk belief that screen life (telly, mobile or mac) is somehow inferior to so-called real life. the sort of sleepwalking ideology sponsored by white dot in their anti-tv book thats titled "get a life". they say "extropian's think the end of biological human beings is a great idea. white dot wrote this book because we don't."
Monday, 12 May 2003
its MY BIRTHDAY
the good news is that clare short has at last resigned from the government. ok she is new-labour rebel-lite but it could be interesting. however the best birthday present of all is that the scaffolding has been dismantled from outside my front door today. it was 5 months almost to the day, dec 9, when the roof builders first nearly killed me, in my bed, missing me by inches.
but not a good weekend either. theres been more than just birthday cards in the post and on saturday my step-dad was lying at the bottom of my parent's stairs, blocking the frontdoor, when my mum came back from her dialysis.
on friday my day began with 3 letters through the letterbox. 2 debt related letters and one notifying me that the server for this site had gone into liquidation. this is the 3rd time that my server has gone belly up and i've been passed on to a business not of my choice. this new administration would cost me additional money, so i've organised getting myself re-pointed elsewhere. meantime there may yet be a temporary disruption to this site.
added to this on friday the phone rang and another old debt pounced on me and i've arranged to re-pay it at a pound a month for the next 500 months.
yesterday there was a phone message from my mum but i didn't speak to her till this morning. my mum is 70 this year. she is profoundly disabled with diabetes, and she goes to hospital 3 times a week for dialysis. on saturday when she got home she discovered my step-dad was blocking the front door and she couldn't enter. she doesn't have a habit of carrying her mobile on her, nor useful phone numbers, nor a spare insulin injection. my step-dad, who is about 75, is her primary fulltime carer.
we still don't know what happened to him. he was conscious but unable to move from the door. my mum can't walk far. from the lounge to the toilet is about her max, and she can't stand long either. the neighbours were out and she eventually got to the local pub who phoned 999 for her.
a fire crew got in through an upstairs window. it also turned out to be fortunate, while the emergency teams were there, that someone pointed out that her car was unlocked and so my mum put a set of car keys in her pocket. because when she got home again after my step-dad was hospitalised, she still couldn't open the door. so with the car keys she was able to drive to one of my aunts.
my step-dad is still in hospital. all we do know so far is that he has a serious urinary infection. his short term memory isn't functioning well.
the good news is that clare short has at last resigned from the government. ok she is new-labour rebel-lite but it could be interesting. however the best birthday present of all is that the scaffolding has been dismantled from outside my front door today. it was 5 months almost to the day, dec 9, when the roof builders first nearly killed me, in my bed, missing me by inches.
but not a good weekend either. theres been more than just birthday cards in the post and on saturday my step-dad was lying at the bottom of my parent's stairs, blocking the frontdoor, when my mum came back from her dialysis.
on friday my day began with 3 letters through the letterbox. 2 debt related letters and one notifying me that the server for this site had gone into liquidation. this is the 3rd time that my server has gone belly up and i've been passed on to a business not of my choice. this new administration would cost me additional money, so i've organised getting myself re-pointed elsewhere. meantime there may yet be a temporary disruption to this site.
added to this on friday the phone rang and another old debt pounced on me and i've arranged to re-pay it at a pound a month for the next 500 months.
yesterday there was a phone message from my mum but i didn't speak to her till this morning. my mum is 70 this year. she is profoundly disabled with diabetes, and she goes to hospital 3 times a week for dialysis. on saturday when she got home she discovered my step-dad was blocking the front door and she couldn't enter. she doesn't have a habit of carrying her mobile on her, nor useful phone numbers, nor a spare insulin injection. my step-dad, who is about 75, is her primary fulltime carer.
we still don't know what happened to him. he was conscious but unable to move from the door. my mum can't walk far. from the lounge to the toilet is about her max, and she can't stand long either. the neighbours were out and she eventually got to the local pub who phoned 999 for her.
a fire crew got in through an upstairs window. it also turned out to be fortunate, while the emergency teams were there, that someone pointed out that her car was unlocked and so my mum put a set of car keys in her pocket. because when she got home again after my step-dad was hospitalised, she still couldn't open the door. so with the car keys she was able to drive to one of my aunts.
my step-dad is still in hospital. all we do know so far is that he has a serious urinary infection. his short term memory isn't functioning well.
Sunday, 11 May 2003
"At the Wadsworth Center in New York State, Department of Health scientists have trained subjects to move a cursor up and down a computer screen by altering the amplitude of their brain waves.
By thinking about weightlifting, subjects could move the cursor upwards. Thoughts about relaxing brought the cursor down. Eventually the cursor could be moved without the imaging process.
Stopping the cursor at a particular point is currently beyond the capacity of all subjects...."
By thinking about weightlifting, subjects could move the cursor upwards. Thoughts about relaxing brought the cursor down. Eventually the cursor could be moved without the imaging process.
Stopping the cursor at a particular point is currently beyond the capacity of all subjects...."
'migration out of biology'
"for a different planet you might want to download into a different vehicle." max more
"for a different planet you might want to download into a different vehicle." max more
Thursday, 8 May 2003
"What do you mean when you talk about "yourself"? Leading neuroscientists Peter Halligan and David Oakley are rewriting the rules on consciousness. 18/11/2000 "
"....consciousness occurs too late to affect the outcomes of the mental processes that it is apparently linked to. You may prefer the notion that you are in charge of your own mind. But where did that idea come from? If you stop to think about it, you'll probably find that it just popped into your head—like all your thoughts."
"Perhaps you have decided to read the rest of this article. But did "you" really make that choice? Keep reading, if you can. You may never think of "yourself" in quite the same way again." new scientist 18 nov 2000 ( archive registration needed)
"How much of the world around you do you really see? You only take in a tiny piece of information at a time and that can have unnerving consequences, says Laura Spinney 18/11/2000"
"You're walking across a college campus when a stranger asks you for directions. While you're talking to him, two men pass between you carrying a wooden door.
You feel a moment's irritation, but they move on and you carry on describing the route. When you've finished, the stranger informs you that you've just taken part in a psychology experiment.
"Did you notice anything change after the two men passed with the door?" he asks. "No," you reply uneasily.
He then explains that the man who initially approached you walked off behind the door, leaving him in his place. The first man now comes up to join you. Looking at them standing side by side, you notice that the two are of different height and build, are dressed differently, have different haircuts and different voices." new scientist 18 nov 2000 ( archive registration needed)
giacomo costa architectures
claude levi strauss:
"there is one fact that can be established: the only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing...is the establishment of heirachical societies, consisting of masters and slaves, and where one part of the population is made to work for the other part."
feb 12 2001
"unexpectedly small number of genes raises questions on humanity's controlling influences."
"straight from the fridge dad:"
"bone orchard, wordsville and tonsil paint".
stereotypes
"by the age of 4 children can describe their culture's stereotype of men and women, youth and age, ethnicities and race....."
new scientist 30 sept 2000 ( archive registration needed)
"about 3% of the population, mostly children, are too dreamy or are hyperactive. either way they're inattentive: they don't listen, don't learn, repeat mistakes, flit from one thing to another. ritalin focuses them."
"We are experiencing a spiraling increase of medication usage particuarly among school-age children. america uses more Ritalin and similar medications than any other country in the world." parents against ritalin
mar 26 1999
uk youth jail conditions rotten to the core
rowlands on cassavetes:
"his opinion was that society made women quiet crazy- it was their mothers making them crazy half of the time. he said men got all the blame but their mothers told them which way to act..."
advice to newly-weds:"always keep your mirror and lipstick under your pillow. be sure to wake before your husband. never, ever, let him see you without your lipstick."
orlan
"man who thinks his wife is an identical impostor gets £130,000" (mar 5th 1999)
"whats the point of marriage if he's not making her happy?" she asks. and the father replies: "i don't understand, who told you that the point of anything is to be happy."
boris mikhailov pays homeless people a month's pension to pose naked.
a heterosexual man who was raped in prison reported it immediately, despite being terrified, but because he had got an erection during the attack, the judge stopped the case ever going to jury.... survivors uk
"people aged over 50 are fed up with the way they are shown- or not shown- on tv" dec 1 2000
lars von triers
Yuan Cai and JJ Xi tracey emin, Marcel Duchamp,
"blind woman to be given artificial eye" (april 27 2000)
adbusters: "our faith in a higher power has been replaced by everyday low prices"
"....consciousness occurs too late to affect the outcomes of the mental processes that it is apparently linked to. You may prefer the notion that you are in charge of your own mind. But where did that idea come from? If you stop to think about it, you'll probably find that it just popped into your head—like all your thoughts."
"Perhaps you have decided to read the rest of this article. But did "you" really make that choice? Keep reading, if you can. You may never think of "yourself" in quite the same way again." new scientist 18 nov 2000 ( archive registration needed)
"How much of the world around you do you really see? You only take in a tiny piece of information at a time and that can have unnerving consequences, says Laura Spinney 18/11/2000"
"You're walking across a college campus when a stranger asks you for directions. While you're talking to him, two men pass between you carrying a wooden door.
You feel a moment's irritation, but they move on and you carry on describing the route. When you've finished, the stranger informs you that you've just taken part in a psychology experiment.
"Did you notice anything change after the two men passed with the door?" he asks. "No," you reply uneasily.
He then explains that the man who initially approached you walked off behind the door, leaving him in his place. The first man now comes up to join you. Looking at them standing side by side, you notice that the two are of different height and build, are dressed differently, have different haircuts and different voices." new scientist 18 nov 2000 ( archive registration needed)
giacomo costa architectures
claude levi strauss:
"there is one fact that can be established: the only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing...is the establishment of heirachical societies, consisting of masters and slaves, and where one part of the population is made to work for the other part."
feb 12 2001
"unexpectedly small number of genes raises questions on humanity's controlling influences."
"straight from the fridge dad:"
"bone orchard, wordsville and tonsil paint".
stereotypes
"by the age of 4 children can describe their culture's stereotype of men and women, youth and age, ethnicities and race....."
new scientist 30 sept 2000 ( archive registration needed)
"about 3% of the population, mostly children, are too dreamy or are hyperactive. either way they're inattentive: they don't listen, don't learn, repeat mistakes, flit from one thing to another. ritalin focuses them."
"We are experiencing a spiraling increase of medication usage particuarly among school-age children. america uses more Ritalin and similar medications than any other country in the world." parents against ritalin
mar 26 1999
uk youth jail conditions rotten to the core
rowlands on cassavetes:
"his opinion was that society made women quiet crazy- it was their mothers making them crazy half of the time. he said men got all the blame but their mothers told them which way to act..."
advice to newly-weds:"always keep your mirror and lipstick under your pillow. be sure to wake before your husband. never, ever, let him see you without your lipstick."
orlan
"man who thinks his wife is an identical impostor gets £130,000" (mar 5th 1999)
"whats the point of marriage if he's not making her happy?" she asks. and the father replies: "i don't understand, who told you that the point of anything is to be happy."
boris mikhailov pays homeless people a month's pension to pose naked.
a heterosexual man who was raped in prison reported it immediately, despite being terrified, but because he had got an erection during the attack, the judge stopped the case ever going to jury.... survivors uk
"people aged over 50 are fed up with the way they are shown- or not shown- on tv" dec 1 2000
lars von triers
Yuan Cai and JJ Xi tracey emin, Marcel Duchamp,
"blind woman to be given artificial eye" (april 27 2000)
adbusters: "our faith in a higher power has been replaced by everyday low prices"
'home office': "building a safe, just and tolerant society"
world prison population more than 8.75 million people 2003.PDF
trends in england and wales prison population to 2009.PDF
world prison population more than 8.75 million people 2003.PDF
trends in england and wales prison population to 2009.PDF
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
