Silly me, of course I should have realized that the FARK’ers were going to be all over this. One of the best FARK photoshop contests ever.
Category: The Current Situation
A modest proposal for NASA
Just realized something… Is there anyway we can get Mars to be included in the Axis Of Evil? There would have to be an invasion…
The Mood At Davos
Cheerful reading about war, depression, anguished and jittery rich people from Pope-Emperor Sterling in the latest Viridian Note
Y’know, folks, sometimes it’s a little disquieting to actually be living in a 1980s William Gibson novel.
More fun with infrasound psyops
More fun with infrasound. You just know the DoD is all over this for some new-fangled psy-ops toys.
Scientists have begun analysing the responses of 250 people who took part in the study into the effects of infrasound, carried out at Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral last September.
They showed the audience’s emotions intensified as the inaudible sound vibrations, too low for the human ear to perceive, were blasted out during a 50-minute piano recital.
Those feeling uncomfortable when the concert began, found their mood turning to anger.
Others, who had felt happy, started to notice sensations of joy.
Some physical affects were also experienced, including tingling in the back of the neck and a strange feeling in the stomach.
[via Robot Wisdom]
Secret Weapons Of Gulf War II
Threatened by the American arsenal of anti-gravity weapons, Iraq is countering with giant mutant scorpions and reversed-engineered UFO technology.
Orange County, China
File this in the “just when you think things couldn’t get more surreal” folder.
ORANGE COUNTY, China — An hour’s drive north of Beijing, on an icy country road lined by fields and populated by trucks and sheep, the landscape is a far cry from palm-ringed golf courses and “Surfin’ USA.”
But wait. There is Sun City, a half-built gated community with echoes of the desert. Then the tidy homes of Orange County come into view. Finally, you drive through a stone portal, past advertisements showing men fly-fishing in cowboy hats, pulling up before the impressive mansions of Watermark-Longbeach, the epicenter of faux L.A. in China.
“I liked it immediately – it is just like a house in California,” exulted Nasha Wei, a former army doctor turned businesswoman, sitting on a white suede banquette in the four-bedroom home in Orange County (China) she moved into this year.
Bits of American geography are popping up all over Beijing, the latest fashion in real estate marketing and sales. Soho, Central Park, Palm Springs and Manhattan Gardens are among recent developments.
In many instances, the name is just an American location tacked on to typical upmarket Chinese apartments. But at Orange County and Longbeach, developers have promised clients the real deal – so long as they can afford the minimum half million-dollar price tag.
Houses are replicas of Southern California homes, designed by Southern California architects, with model homes decorated by Los Angeles interior designers. The basement pool tables are American. The appliances are imported. The tiles, wood siding and wall sconces are from the United States, too.
[via anil dash’s daily links]
Would you like to play a game?
Hey kids, let’s play Gulf War 2!
This is a projection of the most likely outcome of a new war in the Gulf. I used sophisticated temporal algorithms and historical semiotic analysis to achieve an accuracy rating of 99.999%. It’s the mother of all Flash games.
[via MetaFilter]
However much booze you have is not going to be enough
Ladies and gentlemen, the State Of The Union Drinking Game
[via Daypop Top 40]
Biohacking amoral soldiers
The Village Voice looks at military research into development psychoactives that will prevent soldiers from feeling guilty about the people they kill in war.
Happy fscking Monday.
[via Politics in the Zeros]
Propaganda. And then what happens after the war?
Emma of Late Night Thoughts offers an excellent primer on how to recognize propaganda, with specific reference to how it’s being used in The Current Situation. Worth reading no matter where you stand. Emma’s analysis of the post-Gulf War II situation is worth a read too.
[via Electrolite]