Category: General

From http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/science/27essa.html?_r=2

Science is not a monument of received Truth but something that people do to look for truth.

That endeavor, which has transformed the world in the last few centuries, does indeed teach values. Those values, among others, are honesty, doubt, respect for evidence, openness, accountability and tolerance and indeed hunger for opposing points of view. These are the unabashedly pragmatic working principles that guide the buzzing, testing, poking, probing, argumentative, gossiping, gadgety, joking, dreaming and tendentious cloud of activity — the writer and biologist Lewis Thomas once likened it to an anthill — that is slowly and thoroughly penetrating every nook and cranny of the world.

According to Entertainment Weekly,

M. Night Shyamalan has found the cast for The Last Airbender, his upcoming live-action film based on the popular anime-inspired Nickelodeon series. The youthful group is mostly filled with unknowns who are likely to be household names by the time Paramount opens the first in its potential three-film franchise in July 2010.

All Asian characters, portrayed by white actors.

Read more RIGHT HERE

Unfortunately, our mechanisms of perception can catch only glimpses of the reality that surrounds us, and by the time these fragments of sensation reach our consciousness, we will have constructed an internal reality that is quite different from the way the world actually is. Thus, at the core of our knowledge, we find that we embrace many unconscious assumptions that never have been proven to be true.

One thing this bus deal has allowed for is more reading – when I actually score a seat, that is.

Two things have become apparent over the past week:

1. It doesn’t matter if I go to bed at 11pm or at 2am, I don’t want to get up at 8.
2. The earlier I get up, the more crowded transit is, and the more time I spend waiting for a skytrain or B-Line that I can actually fit on.

This is the thing I most dislike about my current living situation. Things will get better when the weather’s nicer, my cold is gone, and I can bike to work again.

I’m joining Marielle for her show “All Fall Down” again today (Thursday), from 13.00-14.00(PT) on 101.9fm CiTR in Vancouver.
http://www.weallfalldowncitr.blogspot.com/

For those of you who don’t know, Dr. Timothy Vess is the protagonist for the narrative of our album “The Shadow Out of Tim”

Whats up man? My name is Timothy Vess and I just want to say thanks for the infamy. I was checkin shit on the web and there it was… an album with my name all in it. I picked it up(yes im the one who bought it), and it was pretty good. Keep it up and you might even sell 2 cd’s…lol.
Anyways, just keep rockin out with your cock out! Tim

“Get a little weird every day” – now with more Thickets:

http://everydayweirdness.com/e/20090121/

“We wondered ourselves…what’s the best way to be washing an apple….”

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Thanks Joe and friend.

I was a very special guest on the new episode of Speedway Squad, which for those who don’t know is a free podcast by Chris, Jordan and Bob, all of whom are or were in the Thickets.

You must have iTunes to get the episode. No I’m not sure why they don’t have a regular RRS feed on www.speedwaysquad.com – perhaps you should email the boys (or comment here) and make that request if for some weird reason you don’t have the Tunes of i.

I think you can download it here and you can hear me breathe loudly through my nose (I still have a cold).