Lance Good

I've been thinking a lot about the universe recently. Not necessarily in the metaphysical or religious sense really but maybe more in the physical or quantum mechanics sense. One of the things that really got me started thinking about this topic is the Global Consciousness Project. The gist behind this project is to look at random event generators (a simplified example would be the static on an empty radio station) to see if the events are affected by human behavior. This project suggests that these random events are indeed influenced by human behavior - human thoughts in particular. I heard a somewhat related idea at a talk at PARC a while ago titled The Virtual Information Domain. The gist of this talk was that there is a vast repository of shared information that people can subconsciously access. One example I remember from the talk was a study on crossword puzzles. Supposedly, people were better at filling ...

Another gripping story on the media's current drug of choice. According to the article, "meth heads" are stealing bikes, not to sell them for drug money, but to fiddle with the parts. Does this story sound like the start of some weird urban legends to anyone else?

OK, internet lingo has hit a new low. I balked at vlog (a video blog) which isn't even really pronounceable as far as I'm concerned. But now we've sunk to splogs. That would be a spam blog. I do agree that blog spam is a problem. Blogs are becoming like the search engines of the mid 90s. In other words, full of crap.


BTW, does anyone else remember the short lived pseudo-fad that was pogs?

My wife got my daughter a kid's meal at Burger King a couple weeks ago. Probably not the ideal lunch but sometimes you got to do what you got to do. Anyway, they were out of the toddler toys so they just gave her the regular toy. Boy was that lucky. Here's what she got:





Is that fine craftsmanship or what? Let me just emphasize that the toy is in near mint condition. The mismatched arms and legs did not come from use or wear - nor did the gigantic misshapen head. Maybe there is some brilliant statement on modern America behind this. Hmmm, Burger King kid's meal....prolly not.


Here's another shot I found on Ebay of Chewy in his native habitat (click the picture to go buy it for yourself for $2.99):
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