You know those warm fuzzy feelings that make us want to be with a person more than anything? These do not come from our hearts, as popularized by romantic folklore, but mostly from our brains. We fall in love for a number of reasons, and our body responds accordingly with a cocktail of hormones strong enough to get us hooked.
Fast eclipsing it’s southern neighbour, Canada took the final leap today and legalized weed.
The FIRST G7 Nation to do so, Canada becomes the second country after Uruguay (of all places) to completely allow marijuana use by its citizens without reproach of prosecution. Pushing it one step further, forthcoming full pardons for simple pot possession are expected soon. GO CANADA!
SMART ! The tourism is going to go batshit next summer as those poor Americans head north to herb country.
The death penalty is morally indefensible and has no place in the 21st century. I will be interviewing shortly and welcome viewpoints from both camps. I can hardly wait to feel the cold-hearted vengeance rip through the phone lines as the useless emotion of revenge takes it’s toll on the victim’s families… by all means, PLEASE send us as much hate mail as you can !!
An amazing TRON inspired performance by dance group Wrecking Crew Orchestra. WCO is an 8 man dance group formed in 2003, they are masters of hip hop and electronic dance.
Mr. Manabu Kurita with a 22 lb 4 oz largemouth bass taken from Japan’s Lake Biwa
Manabu Kurita of Aichi, Japan shows his July 2, 2009 record catch, a largemouth bass caught on Lake Biwa, Japan’s largest lake.
After nearly six months of waiting, he has now taken his place alongside another angler, as dual holders of the All-Tackle record for largemouth bass each weighing 22 lb 4 oz and caught 77 years apart.
Kurita’s fish tied the record of George Perry, who caught his bass on America’s Montgomery Lake on June 2, 1932.
Kurita used 25-pound test line and a live blue gill as bait.
Sooooooooooo… where and what the fuck is up for summer 2009?
Well… as you already know, we are always off travelling from July 1st to September 1st. That means no LIVE! shows, but we will be checking in from time to time as we explore our audiences (think anal probe) and hopefully capture some intesresting content for our Fall Season.
Stay tuned and by all means Skype us and/or leave a message on Afterhourz®
As many of you already know, in STUDIO® Seven we use MEEBO exclusively for listener interaction. Friends of ours and the Meebo crews recently held a meetup in Tokyo. Here is their report.
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Apparently, we, in the western world possess technology that SUCKS ASS !! A few days ago, I came across some smarty-pants video-clip that extolled the virtues of Japanesecell phones and how “behind the times” the rest of the world is because of how the cell phone is so integrated into their lives.
A Japanese mobile phone is one or more of the following:
At a university lab in a Tokyo suburb, engineering students are wiring a rubbery robot face to simulate six basic expressions: anger, fear, sadness, happiness, surprise and disgust.
Hooked up to a database of words clustered by association, the robot — dubbed Kansei, or “sensibility” — responds to the word “war” by quivering in what looks like disgust and fear. It hears “love,” and its pink lips smile.
Dude, we’re not in the Uncanny Valley any more; researchers at Japan’s Robot and Science Institute are taking us for a stroll through the freaking Leatherface Valley with Kansei, a creepy new robot with a vocabulary of over 430,000 words that’s designed to react emotionally to whatever it’s discussing. If you’ve been waiting for a robot that can turn that frown upside down this is it — researchers have taught Kansei how to smile when it’s happy and frown when it’s sad by using word association software to build an artificial intelligence program that allows the bot to make judgements about whether it likes something or not.
"The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered ( moved, seconded carried and minuted ) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices"
-- C.S. Lewis [1898-1963]
from The Screwtape Letters
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-- Oscar Wilde
What is the difference between genius and stupidity? Genius has limits. - Albert Einstein
"Never regret growing older, as it is a privilege denied to many !"
"Love the life you live. Live the life you love." -- Bob Marley
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“Abundance comes from making others better off.” — Anonymous
"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma, which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
-- Steve Jobs
'Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions"
-- Edgar Cayce
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-- Mahatma Gandhi
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On 06/25/71 she was found with a bullet in her head.
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