I'm not that creative
Well, I've finally had time to go over the polls and what the pundits across the net and zines are saying about the debate. Judging from what I've read at DailyKos, all the polls seem to give Kerry a fairly decisive win for last night's debate; the closest poll had Kerry winning by 2 points with an eight percent Republican bias. Sounds pretty good to me. Conservative pundits such as those at The Corner seem to have little more to say than, "Well, we thought it was a decisive Bush win. But that liberal media...you know those crazy fucks will always support Kerry!" They seem to be forgetting, of course, how much they attacked Gore's performance four years ago. Still...the media _IS_ liberal, right? It's not just that they're WRONG?
I've been looking at the number of page views a day and I appear to be averaging about 10 unique hits a day (not including me). Not sure who all these people are, but I appear to even have a regular reader in Russia? And I haven't even really publicized this blog more than just posting a link to it in my AIM profile. Wacky.
Oh, and for those of you who might get a mobile here in Scotland (and I assume the rest of the UK). Advice: don't get a contract with Virgin. They have really crappy reception and I keep getting texts from friends literally eight hours after they send them.
I watched Reservoir Dogs again last night. I love Quentin Tarantino, I think he's one of the best directors around. If you haven't seen the movie, I definitely recommend it, although it is a bit violent. I rate it an A-. I'd give an actual critical review here, but I want a nap.
And now before I go to sleep, here are those psuedo-intellectual links for all ya'all to read and become learn-ed:
- First an article about Notions of Beauty. It just briefly considers various ideas of art and arts movements over the twentieth century. Helps ya understand what all those "cultured" people are talking about.
- Someone purports to identify a crisis in American liberalism. I agree with him up to a point; I think the major problem is the lack of a monolithic intellectual foundation for current liberalism in America. It seems too chaotic and vaguely inconsistent right now. I may post my ideas on this later.
- The most KICK ASS of these posts - info on the upcoming Nirvana boxed set (god I want this). Get this: 68 of the tracks are going to be previously unreleased tracks (all probably available in the Outcesticide bootlegs, but hey, I don't have those). Coming from Nirvana, at least 10 of these tracks have to be absolutely incredible.
- Yeah yeah, it's like has been done before, but now it's with a COW. Yup, they've mapped the cow genome. Pretty cool. It will probably scare all those naturalistic wimps who don't want genetically modified food; people are awfully strange about this. They just don't grasp that most of these modifications can also be made using selective breeding methods. I believe at one point someone even showed that the "golden rice" can be created using selective breeding. Genetic modification has been done for thousands of years by humans, now it's just selective. And I don't buy the whole monoculture argument against genetic modification of crops/cows. Targeting one gene to be modified isn't a monoculture any more than raising dairy cattle versus beef cattle is.
- More science news, Harvard wants to clone embryos. I'm all for it. But isn't this illegal? I thought Congress banned this?
- Someone beat tit-for-tat in Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. The method seems a little against the spirit of the game, but still is intriguing. IPD is one of my pet hobbies - I love studying this thing (probably because of it's connection with evolutionary theories).
- An interesting article at Generation 5 about Constructing Conciousness. I'm still not entirely sure if people will ever accept that an artifact can be conscious. Or if consciousness is just a misleading word we use to identify a concept that is nothing more than an emergent construct of our nervous system (neural network - our mind).
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