Posted in Ancient Chinese Secret Huh?, Bonfire of the Vanities, Cribsian Dream, Debt Proof? I Think Not!, Depression 2.0, Dogville, Financial Collapse?, Frack Off!, General, High School Uber Alles, Moving Pictures, Musicpaulogy, Oil's Well That Ends Badly!, Ou Retarded Kids, Our retarded kids, She Blinded Me with Science!, Songs of the Week, speedhair, The Art of War, The Prime Mover, The Rise of the Machines, Thermonuclear Destruction, Too Much Information, Uncategorized, What's a Grecian Urn?, WT7 Conspiracy, Zoltar, tagged Earth..what a shithole!, end of days, military, speedhair on May 19, 2011| Leave a Comment »
A song written in 2005 about what is going down in 2011!
Into the Silos
Making love
Under silos
Trapped above
What do I know?
Whispering sweetest secrets
For all the World to hear
It’s live on television
Intimacy revealed
(more…)
Posted in She Blinded Me with Science!, Zoltar, tagged Cloud Computing, Google, Internet, Zoltar on April 19, 2010| 4 Comments »
Okay so let me get this straight..
While one hand is desperately trying to get a grip on the consequences of Too Big To Fail Financial Institutions the other hand is busy pushing ahead with the wonderful, “efficient” (man people do LOVE that word) technology of Cloud Computing which essentially derives it’s power from the economies of scale made possible by storing information in a handful of ginormous data centres instead of proprietary hardrives and servers. The Data Industrial Complex (pretty much anything to do with computing which these days touches on EVERYTHING) is trying hard to convince us that very soon we will only need a mobile phone or access to a “dumb” terminal to deal with all our computing needs.
Granted most of us already have a good chunk of our lives up there in the sky(net) but we still keep copies on our computers at home. Will laptops and desktops completely be replaced by tablets and mobile phones? I don’t see why not. If they don’t disappear completely, clunky 20th Century computing hardware might just find a niche use for itself, very much like turntables post CDs and ipods. (more…)
Posted in She Blinded Me with Science!, tagged hydraulic fracturing, peak oil, quebec on April 15, 2010| Leave a Comment »
Funny how Quebec bitches about Alberta’s oil sands on the one hand and yet plans to fully exploit the hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. “fracking”) of the ground beneath our feet to tap into “unconventional” natural gas deposits.
See this article in the Watershed Sentinal for details..
Points to retain regarding Quebec:
“Huge shale developments are also planned for Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. The Utica shale gas play in Quebec covers an area of 5,000 square kilometres that runs along the St. Lawrence River from Montreal to Quebec City.”
“Now some geologists are saying that the use of horizontal drilling and fracking for shale production exhausts the well within a mere eight years, with a decline in output of 75 percent in the first year alone. Some are even calling the sector “a speculative bubble.”
In other words, the drilling and fracking endanger the groundwater and deplete rivers and lakes all for a quick payoff to the industry and the province, after which the taxpayer is left with the clean up.”
Posted in She Blinded Me with Science!, tagged end of the universe, large hadron collider on March 31, 2010| Leave a Comment »
