tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20855061280319872932011-07-07T19:09:33.092-07:00Serpent Light Prismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00541493820187118656noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2085506128031987293.post-59269467430107157572010-05-02T16:12:00.000-07:002010-05-02T16:59:44.888-07:00Tiny excerpt from James Curcio's article on <i>RealitySandwich.com</i> entitled "Pretty Suicide Machine".<br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:130%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><br /></span></span>"The corporate / consumer paradigm is yielding poisons rather than elixirs: disease, vastly unequal distributions of wealth, and a looming population crisis. Most curiously, they are being carried out as if they willed their own annihilation. This paradigm is our suicide machine. Though Ray Kurzweil's predictions in his book The Singularity Is Near about the exponential growth of processing power seems correct, it seems he forgot to realize that such "progress" bears no necessary relation to our own internal evolution. A tool is only an extension of its maker. Modern man is an ape with a rocket launcher."</div><div><br /></div><div>read the whole article <a href="http://www.realitysandwich.com/pretty_suicide_machine">here</a>.</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2085506128031987293-5926946743010715757?l=serpentlightprism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Serpent Light Prismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00541493820187118656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2085506128031987293.post-32120409787109620612009-08-19T02:30:00.000-07:002009-08-19T02:35:20.702-07:00<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/9c8an2XZ3MU&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9c8an2XZ3MU&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2085506128031987293-3212040978710962061?l=serpentlightprism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Serpent Light Prismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00541493820187118656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2085506128031987293.post-90198989362051717722009-08-04T13:14:00.000-07:002009-08-04T13:22:29.177-07:00feast your eyes on this <a href="http://nrkp3.no/konserter/?klipp=397040">prize</a><div><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2085506128031987293-9019898936205171772?l=serpentlightprism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Serpent Light Prismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00541493820187118656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2085506128031987293.post-11927527544141993682009-07-29T17:23:00.000-07:002009-07-29T23:30:05.703-07:00<div>navigate the <a href="http://www.neave.com/planetarium/">cosmos</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2085506128031987293-1192752754414199368?l=serpentlightprism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Serpent Light Prismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00541493820187118656noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2085506128031987293.post-33768923774719998962009-07-28T22:24:00.000-07:002009-07-29T00:42:49.955-07:00<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; ">pulsing ammonite staircase</span><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">twisting scales like boiling air</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms'; ">twin asps dueling</span><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">made calm</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">around a rising column</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">of mercury held from wings</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">lifting itself into the sun</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2085506128031987293-3376892377471999896?l=serpentlightprism.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Serpent Light Prismhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00541493820187118656noreply@blogger.com0