Tech: Trusting "Trusted Computing"

Simple little short that does a good job of explaining the abuse of the term "Trusted Computing". We tend to pay more attention when there's a slick presentation.

http://www.lafkon.net/tc/

Religion: Ken Miller on Intelligent Design

It's really quite a sad debate when you see all the facts.

Drugs: LSD & Kevin Herbert

Cisco man... CISCO!!

"It must be changing something about the internal communication in my brain. Whatever my inner process is that lets me solve problems, it works differently, or maybe different parts of my brain are used, " said Herbert, 42, an early employee of Cisco Systems who says he solved his toughest technical problems while tripping to drum solos by the Grateful Dead -- who were among the many artists inspired by LSD.

Read the rest here, @wired.com.

Paranoia: While you sleep.

Don't want aliens, zombies or terrorists disturbing your rest? Well have no fear! The Quantum Sleeper is here to the rescue!

This should be a good entry to kick off a series of accounts that will depict how sadly ridiculous the state of the world is. At first sight I thought it was a joke and it is... ...isn't it?