For all of you who’ve seen Chicken Little and were as disapointed as I was, Here’s a funny clip from conan. Click play below to watch (if you don’t see the play controls give it a few seconds and it will load).

After watching the movie, I also felt like I had the bird flu!

Years ago, I read a few articles on L. Ron Hubbard’s books and about some of the supposed technical details/jargon in the so called religion. All of what I read caused me to immediately discount this supposed belief system as lame science fiction, at best.

I recently watched the Southpark episode "Trapped In A Closet" (A parody on Scientology and poking fun at Tom Cruise, John Travolta and R. Kelly) and after laughing hysterically I decided to do a little revisit on Scientology / Hubbard to see how close they were in portraying this *lame* religion.

Being a fan of general science, technology and of good science fiction, I still don’t see how anyone can buy into any of the crap Lafayette Ron Hubbard and his lame followers believe. I’ve come to realize that it’s actually offensive to call this crap Science Fiction, it’s very lame fantasy at best. Although it’s funny reading about his son contradicting him and of his early pre-scientology quotes.

It seems more like he was a failing Science-Fantasy writer who decided to slap on some *modern* science to start a religion / business. I mean come on, an alien ruler steals the soles of other aliens, and flew them to earth on space planes that look similar to a DC-8 jets.

Oh yeah and when L Ron Finally “discarded his body” to do “higher level spiritual research (or die of a stroke) they found high levels of a psychotropic drug in his body. So 8 million (according to Co$ PR) or 50,000 (probable actual number) people are following the rantings of a hallucinating drug addict!

Here are a few good links I ran across:

Wikipedia: L. Ron Hubbard

Wikipedia: Space Opera in Scientology Doctrine

Operation Clambake (the original website I read years ago, which helped to set my distaste for the whole Scientology / Co$ thing.):

Enjoy, and watch that South Park Episode, their (comical) animation during the telling of the Doctrine of Scientology is a priceless blow to all those in the Co$.

Gargoyle’s and Darksided things bother her, and oh how she loves to rebuke things in the name of the LORD-UH! If you missed this Trading Spouses Meet Your New Mammy episode, click play below to watch (if you don’t see the play controls give it a few seconds and it will load).

I ran across this article a few weeks back.  It grabbed my attention.

NTT Do Co Mo, one of the largest phone companies in the world is developing technology which can be used to enhance video games and bring a more realistic physical sense to the games. The author of the article actually tested this *technology* and described his experience as being "unnerving and exhausting."  The device sends short low voltage pulses into the inner ear causing all sorts of reactions.

I guess it’s not a big deal but it still makes me feel uncomfortable is that a *video game* accessory could cause such a disturbance and leave the user to feel out of control for a moment.  I read up a bit more on this company and found they are doing a lot of research on stuff like this.  There are PDF press releases / technical documents suggesting other uses and descriptions, of course they are selling it as improvements for mobile communications.  Also the names of the technology and the photos of the leads of the projects are pretty crazy sounding and funny looking.

How connected do you need to feel to your electronics?

Original Article Link:

http://www.courant.com/business/hc-remotecontrol.artoct29,0,6114766.story?coll=hc-headlines-business  

PDF / Tech Doc:

http://www.ntt.co.jp/tr/0311/files/sf.pdf  

Lori and I got our Votes On Tonight at the Downey Firestation on Firestone and Orange St.

Here are my votes:

73: No

74: Yes

75: Yes

76: Yes

77: Yes

78: No

79: No

80: No

I also voted for Bob Epple, who remembers the green apple pot holders from the last time he ran for some city office?  That man rules! (I think)

Here’s a good one from PeTA.  It looks like they’re bent on promoting good family values. I zoomed in on a few key words on the back.

Yes, Daddy is such a savage he might be bored one day and decide to hunt your cat fluffy for sport.

The band is called Hurra Torpedo (They’re on myspace too!) and they are from Norway.  This performance is their cover of Bonnie Tyler’s "Total Ecslipse of The Heart" (you’ll recognize the tune). While none of them can sing well, (not the funniest part) it is the performance and intense commitment of the guy on the far right which causes me to laugh hard (he’s smashing an oven and way into it, his pants fall a bit!!).  It’s a classic performance!!