In the other narrative of current events, strangeness surround the Nick Berg beheading.

Here's the new proof.
11:36:33 AM  #  Oh yea! []

Here's a nice essay about these tragic days by legend Kurt Vonnegut.
11:28:58 AM  #  Oh yea! []

GOD IS CONCERNED ABOUT OUR APPAREL, HAIR STYLES, ETC. [Memepool]
11:11:28 AM  #  Oh yea! []

SETI@Vatican. The Vatican's official astronomer, Brother Guy Consolmagno, has given an interview in which he discusses the Vatican's thinking on what to do if alien intelligence is discovered.

We find an intelligent civilization and there's no way in creation we can communicate with them because they're so alien to us. We can't talk to dolphins now. In which case, we'll never know.

Second scenario: We find the intelligent civilization. We can communicate. We discover that they have the two essentials that theologians talk about for the human soul, intelligence and free will. They know who they are, they're self-aware, and they're able to do something about it. I think dogs are self-aware, but they don't have a whole lot of free will. Maybe computers are the same sort of thing. Human beings have to have both...

A third scenario: We find a dozen civilizations out there, and a bunch of Jehovah's witnesses go up and convert them all. At the end of the day, every civilization is Christian, except the human race is still not too sure about this. I mean, anything's possible.

Link

(via /.) [Boing Boing]
11:08:08 AM  #  Oh yea! []

Watch the skies!. Earlier this week, a video of eleven UFOs caught on tape by Mexican Air Force pilots was released by the country's Defense Department.

According to the Associated Press report, "the lights were filmed on March 5 by pilots using infrared equipment. They appeared to be flying at an altitude of about 3,500 meters (11,480 feet), and allegedly surrounded the Air Force jet as it conducted routine anti-drug trafficking vigilance in Campeche. Only three of the objects showed up on the plane's radar."

Yesterday, a follow-up AP report quoted a nuclear scientist from the National Autonomous University who believes "the bright blurs could have been caused by electrical flashes emitted spontaneously by the atmosphere." Meanwhile, the Mexican Defense Secretary says the jury is still out on what appears on the tape.

I want to believe. Link
[Boing Boing]
11:01:24 AM  #  Oh yea! []

Cecil Baxter. "You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty." [Quotes of the Day]
10:54:10 AM  #  Oh yea! []

TV show mashup photoshopping contest.

Today on Worth1000's photoshopping contest: mash up two or more TV shows.

Link
[Boing Boing]
10:51:16 AM  #  Oh yea! []

Sometimes, Rock and Roll can save lives. In my hard times this past month, Wilco's new release A Ghost is Born has helped. It's not in stores until June 22nd, but you can hear the whole album streamed at the website.

The new album is mellower and more straightforward than Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and has a Neil Young with Crazy Horse sound in parts. But the foundation is solid while the emotions are shaded. My only complaints, the new version of Handshake Drugs isn't as effective and pop-hook worthy as the EP version (but it does fit the album better) and the extended ambience-fest at the end is becoming a Wilco cliche. It's still worth the dough because I want to listen to it daily and like Yankee, there will still be reveals months from now in the CD.

My favorite line, right now, from the new CD:

Where would (we/life/love/I) be without wishful thinking?

Wishful thinking indeed.
10:41:13 AM  #  Oh yea! []

Well, this blog is in it's last days. The renewal comes up this month and I think I'm dropping Radio Userland. I'm planning to host a blog on my own site, gebryan.com. I'm planning on building my own pages, maybe using a modified iblog. I did have an idea for a segmented fiction piece blog and it's easier access to the music content.

Anyhoo, as Preacherman says, blogging has jumped the shark.

Plus Radio Userland hasn't grown it's product in two years. Jeez, no WSYWIG for mac yet?
10:22:22 AM  #  Oh yea! []