This track, called Design Coding by The Poetic Prophet, has just been uploaded on YouTube. I thought it was hilarious the first time I saw it, and it's still very amusing on the fourth viewing. I'm not an expert on...
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Posted on March 30, 2008 11:01 AM • 3 Comments •
The great filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock had a profound insight into the workings of the human mind. "There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it," he once said, and the shower scene from Psycho, demonstrates...
Posted on February 16, 2008 3:37 PM • 8 Comments •
From KMBC: Clay County sheriff's deputies said David Theiss, of Kansas City, possessed a Colorado River toad with the intention of using it as a hallucinogenic. Experts said it's possible to lick the toad's venom glands to achieve psychedelic effects....
Posted on November 15, 2007 8:18 PM • 4 Comments •
The U.S. military has been awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for its alleged plans to develop the "gay bomb". The device was proposed in 1994 by researchers from the U.S. Air Force Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio. The plans for...
Posted on October 5, 2007 3:49 PM • 3 Comments •
ABC News has posted a transcript of Osama bin Laden's videotaped statement, in which he refers to Noam Chomsky as "among the most capable" of commentators on the Iraq war. And in a Mind Hacks exclusive, Vaughan has posted a...
Posted on September 8, 2007 3:20 PM • 0 Comments •
"What is matter? Never mind. What is mind? Never matter." So says Homer, in one episode of The Simpsons. And although I'm not an adherent of Homerian dualism, the show is still my favourite thing on television. I think...
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Posted on July 26, 2007 4:56 PM • 2 Comments •
The Devil's Dictionary, by Ambrose Bierce, began in 1881 as a weekly column in a San Francisco paper, and was published as a book in 1911. BRAIN, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. That which...
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Posted on July 8, 2007 11:14 AM • 0 Comments •
