Today is just so ... Yesterday

Even if you should not know the name Intel, chances are great that your computer (if it's a Windows PC) does run on a central processor chip made by the company of that name.

They have a logo saying that Today is So Yesterday, and - given that - they are looking at tomorrow: the brilliant future that's completely different not only from yesterday but also from today ... which is yesterday, anyway!

And it seems they have great plans for you ... implanting a chip in your brain so you can e.mail and twitter right from the source. No need for mouse or keyboard, no more remote control for your TV-DVD-HD Info-tainment Center - you'll do it all as if by telepathy.

What they don't say, of course, is that a chip in your brain also brings us to the ultimate stage of the Big Brother 1984 Orwellian Nightmare ... Dig It?

Is your cat chipped? Your dog? Just for safety and security, so you can find them if they get lost?
Well, you're next!

Can't believe that? Read this article on Computer World.
Short Summary: io9 - We Come from the Future

Green Energy - What Does It Mean? GREEN?

Some smart people have found a smart way to harvest energy. And they belief that this harvest is green, though it comes from driving cars. This raises the following questions:
Can Green Energy be harvested from a White Boy? From Black, Yellow or Red people? From Semitic or Anti-Semitic ones? Buddhist, Muslim, or Christian ones? Wicca Witches, Madonna Qabbalists? Taliban Toyota's? Berlusconi Bicycles?

Do cars have to be green to create green energy?
Well, when it comes to harvesting energy, it seems that all racial, cultural, political, religious and other perceived distinctions - for example colour - are not at all important; just the way it should be in the perfect world we do not live in ... have not succeeded to achieve/create.

But with oil having been shown recently to be beyond PEAK already, any such thinking-outside-the-box idea may be valuable.

Naturally, it would probably all work even better if the cars creating this green energy would perhaps even drive using green energy in the first place.
Here's an article explaining the concept, including a video with a soundtrack for the deaf.
I can't help it ... you'll probably have to turn your sound down.

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Image: Copyright unknown but retrieved from TreeHugger.com

Is the Large Hadron Collider Un-Natural?

The world's most complex machine ever built, the powerful particle accelerator buried under French and Swiss soil has failed yet again.

Considering that the LHC has been built in order to detect a so-called god particle, it will be interesting to see whether or not it stands up to the principle laid out by Richard Buckminster Fuller:


Whatever nature permits is natural.
If nature does not permit it, it cannot and does not occur.

Is this perhaps the reason why the 6 billion dollar machine doesn't work!? Is it synchronicity that (this time) it was a bird, dropping a piece of bread that disturbed the super-conducting magnetic mandala?

Scientifically speaking, the unknown sub-atomic particle one is searching for is known as the Higgs boson, named after British physicist Peter Higgs - himself a staunch atheist and not at all happy with the more popular name.

Backround Info: Popular Science
Image: National Geographic
Richard Buckminster Fuller. Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975; item 1056.02)

UPDATE: The Beast is Working Again (21/11/2009)