June 2012
All three of Tom Cruise's marriages ended when wife was 33 →
todayentertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com
“Cruise’s first wife was Mimi Rogers, who was 31 when she wed 25-year-old Cruise in May 1987 and 33 when they broke up in 1990.
“Cruise then married Nicole Kidman, 23, in December of 1990, and then separated in 2001, when Kidman was 33.
“Holmes, 28, and Cruise wed in 2006, seven months after daughter Suri was born. And when word came Friday that Holmes had filed for divorce, those with a sense of Cruise history noted that Holmes was also 33.”
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it’s enemy action.” - Auric Goldfinger.
Take cover, friends - the Ritual of Chüd is complete!
Would You Give Up Your Privacy to Live in Utopia? →
io9.com
“It’s easy to invent a dystopian future — just take the worst aspects of the world around you, and ugly them up. But what about dreaming of a better world, or even a perfect society? Some of the noblest science fiction writers and futurists have imagined a future utopia, in which all of our problems have been solved and people can live up to their full potential.
“There’s just one catch: In many of these utopias, you have to give up some or all of your privacy. Why does an ideal society often seem to involve people knowing what you’re doing — or what you’re thinking?”
“According to (a) report, although only six percent of the global population lives in America, we are responsible for more than a third of its obesity. What does that mean? Who knows, because we’re only 27th in math.”
—STEPHEN COLBERT, The Colbert Report (via inothernews)
Listen
Church of the SubGenius Hour of Slack #1367 - Old School X-Day Media Barrage/Live Special
NOTE: We are releasing TWO shows this week, because the world ends next week.
This show is a real cross-section of SubGenius audio history from 1980 to the present, almost all of it concerned with the upcoming WORLDWIDE X-Day event (not the campout). Toward the end we describe how deceased Mormons such as Joseph Smith and Brigham Young have been turned into due-paying SubGeniuses, postmortem, by Rev. Just John. Mostly, it’s “media barrage-style” cuts, hundreds of them, from things like Dr. Legume and Rev. Stang preaching at devivals, to unidentifiable but somehow classic monster movie soundbites. Most impressive of all are some clips from the Futuramas of LAST WEEK (S07-E01,02) with uncanny correspondences to both X-Day and the Canobitian research concerning the secret 1953 switch of “Earth” and “Mars.” Stang preaches from that chapter of THE BOBLIOGRAPHON. Two songs each by THE AMINO ACIDS and HANK FLOYD are played through, but there are bits of many songs we can’t identify now because they came from collages created by the late Prof. Chas Smith for his ESO Swamp Radio show. Near the end, Rev. Stang provides a few survival tips for those Left Behind in the coming Rupture. In other words, this show covers a LOT of temporal ground. Recorded June 24, “2012” at WCSB Cleveland.
Is SETI at risk of downloading a malicious virus from outer space? →
io9.com
“We take it for granted that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a safe endeavor. Seriously, what could possibly go wrong with passively searching for interstellar radio signals? Unfortunately, the answer is quite a lot –- especially if the incoming signal contains something malicious, like a computer virus or Trojan horse.”
Warren Ellis » Money Isn’t Real: remarks for the Greg Palast event, 26 June 2012 →
warrenellis.com
“Money is fictional.
“The folding cash in your pocket isn’t real. Look at it. It’s a promissory note. “I promise to pay the bearer.” It’s a little story, a fiction that claims your cash can be redeemed for the equivalent in goods or gold. But it won’t be, because there isn’t enough gold to go around. So you’re told that your cash is “legal tender,” which means that everyone agrees to pretend it’s like money.”
Religion Would Likely Survive Alien Life Discovery →
space.com
“The discovery of life beyond Earth would shake up our view of humanity’s place in the universe, but it probably wouldn’t seriously threaten organized religion, experts say.”
