suburban development 1906

this picture is from the MTA website. the contrast of the weedy dirt track that would develop into a dense urban area. this is the build it and they will come attitude, i assume. the nearest thing i can think of to this in the present day is the outer highway ring they've just finished in Denver & San Antonio, and other western cities where they put in an expensive off-ramp that leaves you off by empty lots and a small, windy country road. p0rnst0rm is pro-development. the global population is growing exponentially, don't forget.

Gina Hughes on Internet Addiction

p0rnst0rm:: addicted to the internet? what about vapid tech columnists named gina who are addicted to whining like a moron?

watching the heavens

Thursday, October 26, 2006 01:02 PM ccadden::
Perhaps some of our fellow gnostics might dig this. Perhaps not. All I know is, for some reason, I'm on this lady's spam list, due to an extremely new-agey group I joined a few years ago, back in the fall of 2003, when the Harmonic Convergence occurred in the heavens. Everyone here know what that was? Probably not---because I think the only people who knew about the Harmonic Convergence/Concordance were people who watched the heavens a bit too closely. I do have to say though, it was a magical night when it happened. There was a thing or two going on, I'll admit.

Thursday, October 26, 2006 07:25 PM mr hardenberg::
is it possible to watch the heavens too closely?

Thursday, October 26, 2006 10:52 PM ccadden::
In this group, there were people who forced a heavenly coincidence/miracle into every configuration of planets the heavens shat out. Yeah, it was too much. Still, the configuration formed by the Harmonic Concordance was a rare and special one.

Arcology for Southern China

read on, my friends, for here is a fact sheet from a professor at the university of hong kong on just why it's time to build an arcology of xx centry sci-fi fame in southern china. YES i'm sure it can be done for a small fraction of total chinese government spending. read on, explorers of the twenty first century, and perhaps you shall find more than just the drought apocalypse of the first few sections.

garrison keillor puts down bernard-henri levy's articles about "america"

'American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville,' by Bernard-Henri Levy reviewed by garrison keillor-- it was a series last year published in the atlantic monthly that i read some of, mostly for entertainment when i discovered that it was barely serious.

since excesses of 60s research frozen in time

this article on hallucinogens speaks of adding these old drugs, mostly unresearched since the sixties, to the wide array of opiates, amphetamines, and mood-alterers availible to the self-medicator.

some internet music thing

i haven't read this yet. it's probably another wonder of the internet-- a window into senseless individual expression, i think-- some kind of new form that's come out of the internet medium. that's my idea. let's go see if it's there in this magazine, too.

the inferno

it's something i have yet to read, though i have little doubt that it sheds some light on our existence here in the 21st century pornstorm. i've heard it said one must know the bible, the aeneid, and st. augustine's confessions in order to begin to follow all the references and whatnot. i'm only a little way into the aeneid at this point. here's dante's inferno read by john cleese divided into four files (1) (2) (3) (4) on putfile.com. and two images of the inferno.

Psychopathia Sexualis

here is the plot summary of a movie with limited engagements in US cities. just keeping the readership informed via our friend NERDMANN.

"Employing a complex multi-narrative structure, Psychopathia Sexualis dramatizes case histories of turn-of-the-century sexual deviance, drawn from the pages of Richard von Krafft-Ebing's notorious medical text. Among the cases are a sexually repressed man who discovers an unhealthy appetite for blood; a homosexual man who submits himself to a doctor who promises to 'cure' his condition; and a masochist who hires a pair of corseted prostitutes to enact a most peculiar performance. In the final chapter, a woman who has spent her life suppressing her lesbian desires is hired to tutor a sexually curious young woman. These stories are bound together by the thread of an ambitious doctor who not only studies the patients, but uses them as pawns and playthings."

Bosnian Pyramids: Great Discovery or Colossal Hoax? - Yahoo! News

in the great crank tradition, this archaeologist claims that like, galileo and columbus, he will bring about a revolution in human knowledge. read the end of the article. without cranks, would there be anyone with actual runaway optimism for the future? without them, would we be antiquarians mournfully attending to the ceremonies of the satus quo?