How much is that Each?
Posted on December 5th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, biology, socio, science.
Futurepundit offers a comprehensive rundown of the jet setting gamete market.
The global market for sperm exports has been estimated at between £25 million and £50 million a year. The US market is worth £5 million and £10 million and the European market is of similar size.
Futurepundit offers a comprehensive rundown of the jet setting gamete market.
Upscale ladies, unwilling or unable to spawn through more traditional methods are shelling out large for people seed.
Meanwhile, women willing to produce ova in multiples are gadding about laying eggs for profit in foreign climes.
All this is interesting, but perhaps not as interesting as learning that
Denmark boasts an ever-growing sperm lake.
And even that is not as interesting as finding out about Hamster-Human Hybrids.
this is not reassuring
Posted on February 12th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, biology, socio, borg.
FT.com / By industry / IT - US group implants electronic tags in workers:
“An Ohio company has embedded silicon chips in two of its employees - the first known case in which US workers have been �tagged� electronically as a way of identifying them.”
-w.
New Harvest - Advancing Meat Substitutes
Posted on January 24th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, words, biology, socio.
New Harvest is a non profit organization dedicated to the development of vat grown industrial meat analogue.
One novel line of research is to produce meat in vitro, in a cell culture, rather than from an animal. The production of such “cultured meat” begins by taking a number of cells from a farm animal and proliferating them in a nutrient�rich medium. Cells are capable of multiplying so many times in culture that, in theory, a single cell could be used to produce enough meat to feed the global population for a year.
-w.
This is your brain on the future
Posted on January 23rd, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, biology, socio.
A recent article in New Scientist asks
Such tinkering is disdained [at least overtly] in the world of sport, but in the marketplace?
What if there was a surgery you could have that would triple your income?
implants anyone? Helpful little machines in your head?
-w.
The Head
Posted on January 19th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, socio, borg, web.
Some arty Finn geeks have constructedthe head.
The head does not seem to be, at present, accessable. But, if it were:
The general public can access the Head via their mobile phones by sending an sms-message. When the Head receives the sms-message it responds by capturing an image and recording a short sound file simultaneously. This image with sound is sent back as a reply to the sms-sender and automatically uploaded to a dedicated website.
-w.
withdrawal
Posted on January 18th, 2006 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, socio.
A New York Times article on the phenomenon of hikikomori - Japanese youth who withdraw acutely into their own radius
contained the following paragraph
There’s something about a site-specific dementia that is very interesting to me. It reminds me of mass hysteria or group hallucination.
-w.
Shake it, yeah, shake it.
Posted on December 21st, 2005 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, socio.
Rutgers researchers scientifically link dancing ability to mate quality.
I knew I spent all those hours on the dancefloor for a reason.
-w.
The Long Now
Posted on October 24th, 2005 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, words, socio.
The Rosetta project by the Long Now Foundation is absolutely brilliant.
We are creating this unprecedented digital library of human language through an open contribution, peer review process and we invite you to participate. All documents and data sets are freely available through this growing online database as well as archived on an extreme longevity micro-etched nickel disk- a contemporary “Rosetta Stone” for the languages of the world.
There is also a word list database that will feed you analogues for common words in 1384 different languages.
For those who speak !O!ung the word for bird is tsama
and the word for stone is !num.
Those whos language is the Marimanindji dialect of Australia say smoke is cancamu and who is kilimpe.
-w.
I see your woman has sent you
Posted on October 22nd, 2005 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, words, socio.
your life as pornography:
The long line of customers stretched to the horizon, drooling, snapping, hungry-eyed beasts, screaming for more, shouting demands and abuse, as the small group of workers serviced them with their mouths and hands, one after another after another.
via DRT
stick it in
Posted on October 20th, 2005 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, robot, socio, borg.
This paper presenting divergent scenarios of human sexuality as influenced by robot sex slaves is interesting.
I liked the bit that goes:
Specially-tailored AI sexbots are being trialed in interventions with extreme sex offenders, such as predatory pedophiles and sexual sadists. Sexbot addiction has emerged as common grounds for divorce and the occasional motive for jealous murder. Humanoid sexbots have been kidnapped. Twelve-step programs for sexbot addiction are available.
People feel strongly about predatory pedophiles. Today I listened to a Benny [shotgun, guitar case, missing amphetamines] and Stan [ball bat, empty needle, heavy skag hook] discuss what should be done with that sort of fellow. It’s almost always a fellow.
Stan opined that a bullet to the head would be a satisfying consequence. Benny brought up the scenario of the erroneous conviction. Stan had to concede that errors would be terrible. I interjected with some savory anecdotes about repressed memory scenarios and satanic cult abuse rumours with consequent tragic results. In riposte Stan related a bracing tale of the time he armed himself with a shotgun and charged through the streets in search of a van which had menaced a dependent female. Benny asserted that there weren’t many things a kid couldn’t get through if he had proper support and by the way in our society the way everybody wants a piece of the victim pie is pretty disgusting. Further, it’s one thing to escape the clutches of a violent rapist, but it’s a whole other thing to have a Pops in clink due to having blown holes all through said menacing predator. Benny did have to cop to having in the past hunted sexual predators with a shotgun. [after they bugged, oh, what was her name, the crackwhore betty, we were all high though so what the hell let’s go out and shoot somebody]
I don’t know how either Stan or Benny would feel about sexbots to satisfy perverts.
-w.
Obstetrics in Gehenna
Posted on July 8th, 2005 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, words, output, socio.
July 08, 2005
the headlines read:
Mobiles capture blast aftermath.
on the web page of the bbc
lower down bottom right just before it goes all to text blurbs
it’s
Cuddly toys in wheelchairs inspire schoolchildren.
remote sensor line of sight into tunnels underground
burned crowds staggering in orderly fashion towards light
a little flatscreen data package slice of life
distant instants lifting spirits
at least it wasn’t me I guess
and isn’t that stuffed monkey cute
to the left of the human interest toy story soft monkey
the words
terror bombs
shiver in a rictus grin
column opposite,
Game review:
God of War is a triumphant effort
that oozes goodness
I kid you not.
this is
the news
today.
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Posted on November 22nd, 2004 by eightprime.
Categories: blog, biology, socio, borg.
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging renders blood flow to brain zones.
In this study it appears that our brains work differently when we remember facts about our lives than when we re-live experiences, as in the mimesis of shared recollection.
Affect specified.
-w.