On BBC Radio Four, author Will Self explored the impact of the mood altering drug Prozac, referring to the very idea of happiness and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World along the way...
"Psychotherapist Susie Orbach diagnoses a generation of "Prozac children" raised on the promise of on-demand happiness."
via BBC Radio 4 - The Prozac Economy.
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Russell Brand:
"I'd unthinkingly imbibed enough doctrine to know that, troubled as I was, there was little point looking elsewhere for support. I was on my own. We are all on our own. Norman Tebbit, one of Thatchers acolytes and fellow "Munsters evacuee", said when the National Union of Mineworkers eventually succumbed to the military onslaught and starvation over which she presided: "We didnt just break the strike, we broke the spell." The spell he was referring to is the Read more [...]
Filmmaker Les Blank has died, aged 77. His subjects included Werner Herzog and musicians Dizzy Gillespie and Ry Cooder. Read more [...]
A marvellously demented parody of a McDonald's fast food TV advertisement. Read more [...]
You should only go if you like butterflies and want to see them up close. Otherwise a real waste of time and money. – Dave D http://tripadvisaargh.tumblr.com/
They boast the most effective desalination gland in nature, located behind the nose. This gathers salt which can then be ejected from the body by ejaculating salty water from their nostrils. This appears like a projectile sneeze and is accompanied by a little sneezing sound.
Marine iguanas often find themselves the unwilling toys of playful sea lions who, despite meaning no malice, sometimes cause them serious injury such as spinal breakage.
via Creature Feature - Marine Iguanas - Galapagos. Read more [...]
This is a list of inventors whose deaths were in some manner caused by or related to a product, process, procedure, or other innovation that they invented or designed.
via List of inventors killed by their own inventions – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The film interviews a whole host of extraordinary bit players from the Texas world and builds up a very powerful mood of uncertainty and suspicion. Underlying this is a message that says these hidden forces in America will never allow you to know the truth. Which means that what you are told by the media may be a lie. That you are being manipulated.
via BBC - Blogs - Adam Curtis - YOU THINK YOU ARE A CONSUMER BUT MAYBE YOU HAVE BEEN CONSUMED. Read more [...]
You see, we are faced with a situation in which the managing of information has become more important than creating new and original information. Take Boing Boing, for instance. They're one of the most powerful blogs on the web, but they don't create anything, rather they filter the morass of information and pull up the best stuff. The fact of Boing Boing linking to something far outweighs the thing that they're linking to. The new creativity is pointing, not making. Likewise, in the future, the Read more [...]
