Total Eclipse

In response to a post on Coilhouse concerning the passing of Proposition 8 in California to end gay marriages in the state, I wrote this response, which I thought was too long for anyone to read as a comment, but still worth sharing with the world, somewhere. There truly is a sour taste coming from [...]

The view from Tel-Aviv: I was really nervous all last night. Laying in bed, watching the US Edition of CNN off the intertubes, and frequenting twitter reports from various friends in the states (Hi Corey!) on my iPod. It was about 4:00 past midnight when Ohio went for Obama. That’s when I knew it was [...]

Listen to the Mad Prophet of the Airwaves, Howard Beale.

So, as you can see, I’ve revamped the site a bit. It’s become increasingly obvious that I don’t have time for much actual-blogging. I do, however, spend ridiculous amounts of time on the internet. This means I do leave a significant ‘imprint’ on the web, in the form of microblogging. This is what The Lifestream [...]

Upgraded to wordpress 2.6.1. It’s basically a feature upgrade, but well worth it. The dashboard has become much more usable imho. Some personal stuff (new job, etc.) has been keeping me from writing, both here and on my brave attempt at a Hebrew blog (never done that before!). I guess blogging just isn’t really as [...]

Not normally one for posts dedicated to movie reviews (hell, not really one to post at all nowadays), but I just got back from seeing Waltz with Bashir, and I feel like I need to let something out on the proverbial page else I explode with indigestion. First off, it’s an amazing film, go watch [...]

In a recent blog post, Warren Ellis posits that humanity should start Bending Mars to its will. Cheap/fast terraforming means taking the planet and fucking it up the ass until it feels like home to us.

Reading Thomas Nagel’s seminal “What is it like to be a bat?” There is a mantra I find myself repeating: THE MAP IS NOT THE TERRITORY. Some food for thought, emphasis mine. [There's a paper here, waiting to be written, about the relation of a presupposed subjective character of experience, the myth of the given, [...]

The paradigmatic example of a sentence a physicalist holds true is “Pain is the firing of C Fibers.” This is an identity claim; It’s not that an action potential in C-Fibers causes pain, but rather that if we come to know the true nature of pain, it simply is firing of C-Fibers. Even most Functionalist [...]

From a socio-historical point of view, the 20th century ended somewhere around 1989-92 with the fall of the Berlin Walls and the disintegration of the communist bloc, and the 21st century begins with September 11th, 2001. The 90′s belong in a different period altogether, where the contextual question on everyone’s lips was “Fukuyama or Huntington?” [...]