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Video Backpacker: To me, my thing is, a video image is much more powerful and useful than an actual event. Like back when I used to go out, when I was last out, I was walking down the street and this guy, that came barreling out of a bar, fell right in front of me, and he had a knife right in his back, landed right on the ground and... Well, I have no reference to it now. I can't put it on pause. I can't put it on slow mo and see all the little details. And the blood, it was all wrong. It didn't look like blood. The hue was off. I couldn't adjust the hue. I was seeing it for real, but it just wasn't right. And I didn't even see the knife impact on the body. I missed that part.

Somehow within the last 12 months it seems that nearly everyone I know has obtained a copy of Real Vegetarian Thai – though I don’t think anyone has actually tried a recipe from it yet. Have you used it?

I am Curry. A slim and handsome race car driver. Here are some FAST and BASIC facts about me!!!

“I always thought Satan would be a Republican…"

The world’s largest river by volume, drainage basin, number of tributaries, and possibly length begins “high in the Peruvian Andes as a thin sheet of crystal water flowing down the side of a rock wall”. A spot on a slope of Nevado Mismi meets both definitions of the source of the Amazon, being the furthest point in the watershed from which water flows continuously as well as the furthest point from which water could possibly flow into the ocean. A five-nation National Geographic Society expedition pinpointed the source of the Amazon using GPS technology.

The United States Department of State’s handy guide to renunciation of U.S. citizenship, for babygrrl and for future reference. (Print it out and keep it in your pocket!)

Since I'm Japanese, and Japan experienced the nuclear bomb, I feel a need to address this. So there's news footage from the actual nuclear bombing in the game, showing what happened, and what's happening with the anti-nuclear-weapons movement today is worked in, too. That way people can learn about these issues -- even if just a little -- while they are playing the game.

I take a
PILL-tiddley pom
It keeps me
STILL-tiddley pom,
It keeps me
STILL-tiddley pom
Not
fiddling.

Given his coexisting ADHD and OCD, we question whether Pooh may over time present with Tourette's syndrome. Pooh is also clearly described as having Very Little Brain. The cause of Pooh's poor brain growth may be found in the stories themselves. Early on we see Pooh being dragged downstairs bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head. Could his later cognitive struggles be the result of a type of Shaken Bear Syndrome?

The FEED special issue on drugs features a story on less well-known psychedelic compounds in which the author talks to Sasha Shulgin (PiHKAL and TiHKAL) and to Vaults of Erowid webmaster Earth, as well as a story on underground psychedelic psychotherapy sessions.

To say it in Mad Ape Den is to say it in one, in two, or in one and two (as I do now), but not in two and two and so on.

If Mad Ape Den has you raw and sad, try the new Van – it’s fun! But is a Mad Ape Den Van to be had?

And if you can do one and one and two, you can see why Al has e be mc2 (for if you sit or if you go – tug or no – the sun is red as Al’s say so).

But for a far-out irk, try to say it and not use “e”!

The remarkable thing is that via the Internet, gay teenagers are now able to partake of the normal Sturm und Drang of adolescent life, which before was largely off limits to them. "Now that we have youth who are coming out during adolescence, that means they can experience the normal developmental milestones in time as opposed to off-time," says Caitlin Ryan. "If you have to delay being an adolescent until later in life, I don't think it's a healthy thing."

You think the fiction of Hollywood has to be exaggerated, and it's just not. I was shocked. I always thought there were really smart people working in Hollywood who were just really cynical, and they knew that the movies they were making were not that good, and they were doing it because they tested well. But mostly it's a very middlebrow to lowbrow kind of town. And they're making films that they approve of.

Dr Daniel Levin, a psychologist at Kent State University in Ohio, said the inability to recognise faces of people from another race is usually explained by saying that people have less experience of seeing them. His study shows the problem is not that we cannot identify the details, it is that we don't pay attention to them.

Corners on the Curving Sky by Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000)

Our earth is round, and, among other things
That means that you and I can hold
completely different
Points of view and both be right.
The difference of our positions will show
Stars in your window. I cannot even imagine.
Your sky may burn with light,
While mine, at the same moment,
Spreads beautiful to darkness.
Still, we must choose how we separately corner
The circling universe of our experience
Once chosen, our cornering will determine
The message of any star and darkness we
encounter.

A: “the sound of 20 erasers rubbing against paper”
Q: What is a typical art class response when a male model gets an erection?

How sexy can a woman be if she hates her body? She can act sexy, but can she feel sexy? How fully can she surrender to passion if she is worried that her thighs are too heavy or her stomach too round, if she can't bear to be seen in the light, or if she doesn't like the fragrance of her own genitals?

randomWalks is observing A Day With(out) Weblogs today.

• World Aids Day: Yahoo full coverage
• Day Without Art Web Action
• Get Tested! (USA)
• MEDLINEplus: AIDS -- an encyclopedic set of links
• AIDS: The Agony of Africa -- Pulitzer Prize-winning Village Voice series
• CDC AIDS FAQ
• photo: AIDS activist prepares for Word AIDS Day action

Today is the anniversary of the N30 protests in Seattle – protests that shut down the WTO conference and exposed the fear and contempt with which the plutocracy regards the rights, beliefs, and bodies of the public. A lot of people are remembering the protest today: check out John Butler’s thread on Metafilter and Dr. Menlo’s N30 tribute for a start. If you’re lucky, This is What Democracy Looks Like may be screening in your area this weekend. Keep an window on the Seattle Indymedia center, for the protestors have promised to return, and the Mayor has asked for a media blackout while he enacts his revenge.

MST3K meets “Dark Dungeons”, an anti-D&D comic screed by Jack Chick: two great tastes that taste great together.

Unfortunately, I’ve been super busy getting ready for our baby and so have had to crap out on this round of reading, but I noticed a handful of Zadie Smith links on this weblog. “Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.” I have no idea where that quote came from.

Dave Eggers reviews four recently published books by four of the greatest living comic artists for the New York Times. thanks, tripping.

Lots of fun with crayons and with pencils?

What are we to make of the exclusive publication of an early Kerouac novella fueling the launch of a new proprietary Windows-only ebook reader? Tell you what, they’ve already got my $3.95 – but I’ll be ripping the text from that file faster than you can say “the one thing we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the rememberance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced at death,” even if I have to print, scan, and OCR the fucker. Email me if you want a copy.

There are many people who believe that the human mind, based on neurons and physical principles, is just a very sophisticated formal system. Does Gödel's theorem imply the existence of facts that must be true, but that our minds can never prove? Or even stronger, that our minds can never believe -- or strongest yet, ever conceive?