Hello New Year
Hello webiverse!
After a great, cold and extremely white Swedish Christmas and a warm, sandy and lovely Australian New Year’s weekend I’m slowly getting back online, reviving all my projects. With a clear, but pleasant, kick in the but from my friend Dennis Dennis, who linked a blog-post towards my blog, I should start caressing my keyboard once again. And of course I’m now obliged to link to his great and honest blog crooks&liars, click the link in this post or find the link in the right hand column.
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There! You got it? Yes! Cool!
As you can see on his blog I’m represented as a cool, slick web 2.0 image, whereas Dennis Dennis his only represented as web 1.0 link-text here. But, hey, I think that’s ok. I like it simple.
What can be expected this year? hmm, I don’t know yet really. I think I planned a few things a week ago but I cannot really remember what. I do think, and I hope, that this year will be less technology/twitter/online-offline -thinking. I will not stop it, but I feel I need to find something more to talk about. Suggestions are more than welcome!
Until next post of binge-thinking (yes! I’ve learned a new word, thanks Kylie!) I refer you to these wonderful stuff I directed my attention to in my igloo.
SUM- Forty tales from the afterlives by David Eagleman
A wonderful book with, you guessed it, 40 tales of how our afterlives might be. Tales that tells us more about ourselves, our hopes and wishes, than real life sometimes would tell. Head over to Eagleman’s site and read one of the better chapters with the great title; Narcissus. A short story how humans was designed, by small creatures living inside the Earth, with one single purpose: to uncover the shell of the Earth, each single mountain and every deep sea but stumbled on her own brilliantness and invented technology like TV, computer and so on and became obsessed with discovering ourselves- something even more complex and hard to uncover than Earth itself.
The Top 10’s ScienceNOW’s of 2009 by ScienceMag
The greatest discoveries of 2009, included why the popular youtube cuckatoo got rythm (That Bird Can Boogie), how someone else’s bad decision can make you do bad decisions (Bad Decisions May Be Contagious), and why 4 hours for you is not enough while it is for others (Early Risers Are Mutants).
Medvetet manipulerade minnen: Verklighetens Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind by Psykologifabriken (in Swedish, English speaking have a look HERE and HERE)
Apparently we can manipulate memories, like in the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. It seems like memories when they are being formed are kind of “liquidly” and when we stop thinking about them takes on a more solid form. Each time we think of this memory it takes on the more liquidly form again so that we can reshape it and add on new information. The question was asked, by Alain Brunett and Karim Nader, if we someone could possibly erase memories or reshape them as we would like them to be. According to new research it seems like we can dampen the effect the memories post-traumatic stress induces by bringing the bad memories back to life in it’s liquidly form and inducing a chemical substance that relaxes the patient. And so when the memories are brought back to life the next time the patient doesn’t feel as horrible as they used to feel by that same memory. Furthermore, this could be a way to help people stop smoking… and a lot of other things that you could think up. Brilliant, crazy and scary.
Peepers by Polar Bear
Quite awesome jazz. Download it by clicking “Peepers”.
posted: 10 January 4
under: experiment, literature, music, screen love, space, and the time