A fun play, not actually affiliated with Quentin Tarantino (as you might suspect). Socrates: Maybe I should frame my theory a bit more emphatically. [Drawing his gun.] Didn’t you ever hear of the face that launched a thousand… boats? Alcibiades: Uh… Socrates: WELL? Alcibiades: Yeah. Socrates: Well, how’d you like me to launch your face? […]
Quentin Tarantino’s Republic Dogs
Posted by Ben on January 25, 2006
https://www.swordbilled.com/quentin-tarantinos-republic-dogs/
Sleep, info regarding
Provided by nature.com, scientific articles and such, with titles like “Clues to the functions of mammalian sleep” and “What are the memory sources of dreaming?”
Posted by Ben on January 13, 2006
https://www.swordbilled.com/sleep-info-regarding/
STRVN. LF. DVD.
And a whole host of other postal acronyms you didn’t even know existed. (STRVN = Stravenue, LF = Loaf, DVD = Divide)
Posted by Ben on January 11, 2006
https://www.swordbilled.com/strvn-lf-dvd/
Panexa
Ask your doctor for a reason to take it.
Posted by Ben on January 11, 2006
https://www.swordbilled.com/panexa/
Lies, all lies!
No, really! A recent study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry,found that pathological liars have signifiicant, actual differences in their brains (compared to normal, non-lyin’ folks); namely, the pathological liars had “increased prefrontal white matter volumes and reduced grey/white ratios compared with normal controls”. My background is weak enough that I don’t quite have […]
Posted by Ben on January 8, 2006
https://www.swordbilled.com/lies-all-lies-2/
Mad Cow Origins, Part 46
So here’s another thought on the origins of the whole mad cow thing: BSE may have started in cattle because they ate imported animal feed that included infected human remains from Hindu funeral ceremonies in India, a controversial new theory on the origin of the disease suggested last night. Obviously there’s lots of controversy regarding […]
Posted by Ben on January 8, 2006
https://www.swordbilled.com/mad-cow-origins-part-46/
2006
…will be a crazily discordant year. Ancient prophecies will allegedly be fulfilled, and new ones will be made, daily, in the papers and magazines and things the kids are reading these days. Fish will fall from the sky, but only where they feel like it. Meaningless statistics will litter television commercials, and commercialism will creep […]
Posted by Ben on January 5, 2006
https://www.swordbilled.com/2006/
No One Ever Listens To The Glaciologists
…but they should, perhaps. Despite a whole host of Acronymic predictions via the UN (specifically, the UN’s IPPC) that sea level would not be affected by Antarctic ice, glaciologists are now singing a pretty different song. (NewScientist: “Antarctic glaciers calving faster into the ocean,” by Fred Pearce [October 18, 2005])
Posted by Ben on December 12, 2005
https://www.swordbilled.com/no-one-ever-listens-to-the-glaciologists/
Oh, for a mere mouse
From a once-and-again AP article on Yahoo! News: LONDON – Aaron Balick expected to find a tiny mouse rustling behind the TV in his apartment. Instead, he found a venomous giant centipede that somehow hitched a ride from South America to Britain. “Thinking it was a mouse, I went to investigate the sound. The sound […]
Posted by Ben on November 22, 2005
https://www.swordbilled.com/oh-for-a-mere-mouse/
Ubu is back!
Not that you necessarily knew it was gone—or in existence, for that matter—but rest assured you won’t believe you could live without the totally & brazenly obscure audio treasures and whatnot that UBUWEB provides. (via WFMU’s Beware of the Blog blog)
Posted by Ben on November 21, 2005
https://www.swordbilled.com/ubu-is-back/