http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_...ty_Act_of_1924

There have been many heinous atrocities committed within the U.S. for many years but few merit unique notoriety. For decades, people presumably with poor intellect or individuals and even families were forcibly sterilized. Social Darwinism has been prevalent for ages scapegoating people with no defense.

Every time I hear someone sheepishly follow authority I am sickened. Milgram's experiments have turned out to an accurate depictation of the way humans have been inculcated by malevolent and vacuous culture worldwide.

Some people anticipate a brighter future and others fear for the next generation. Nobody gives a fuck about opinion.

Gee guys, entertainment sure is wonderful. Let me go get my 36oz. gold chain and rejoice in pursuit of the next 57 oz.

Any other misanthropic articles to share?

So the DeadGod design has been changed a bit, as you may have noticed. That big bar beneath the title area will display recent posts, popular articles, or popular threads depending on what you mouse over.

The logo has also been changed to be slightly less offensive ;)

So, thoughts? Ideas? Like it? Hate it?

If I could have an ounce of either of their talent I would be a pleased gal.

When I was little the violin was my favorite instrument. I used to watch orchestras whenever dad would attempt to channel surf past them. I always loved their sound and the sharp movements of the musician. Of course, I didn't pursue this because I was a stupid American child.

I later grew to love wooden wind instruments (simple wooden flutes and the like) but I didn't pursue that nor did I pursue the harp.

Needless to say, I failed. These guys didn't.

My cover with a friend of mine, of Justin King's Larivee guitar video

im playing bass and my friend is playing guitar

o Now only two items will be shown in your inventory.

This includes both the postbits area below player's avatars and their full user page. Which two items are displayed are up to you--they will be the top two items listed on your inventory page. You can access your inventory page as follows:

[ DSG Items ] -> [ View Inventory ]

Re-arrange your inventory by dragging the items around.

o All purchasable items now have a set cost of 5 credits.

o All purchasable items now have a stock of 1,000,000.

o Only people who have registered for the current cycle will be affected by events.

o Signing up to play a DSG cycle will grant you 150 credits. Playing each day will grant you an additional 10 credits.

This is in addition to the 1000/500/100 rewards everyone gets at the end of the cycle. This means that no matter what you will gain credits by playing DSG.

This opens up the game to people who don't necessarily want to play to win, but just want to interfere with other players :)

o The play method has been changed significantly. The new system works as follows:

Each cycle will open with a "registration" period that lasts 48 hours. This gives everyone a break and ample time to sign up for the new cycle. To register, visit http://www.deadgod.net/dsg

After the registration period is over, a single staging day will happen. When you are satisfied with your selection of items, visit http://www.deadgod.net/dsg to say you're ready for the next event to happen.

Every four hours a script will run to check if all players who registered are ready. If all players are ready and at least 16 hours have passed since the last event the next event will run. Players have 48 hours to signify they are ready, otherwise the event will run regardless. All registered players will receive a reminder email every 4 hours after the initial 16 hours have passed if they have not said they're ready.

At this point you can change your items around again. Once satisfied, you must visit http://www.deadgod.net/dsg and verify you're ready for the next event cycle.

This is much simpler than it sounds. Just visit http://www.deadgod.net/dsg after buying your items and you will be guided through the process.

That's it. Good luck!

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/sc...138&ei=5087%0A

This is truly a fascinating article. I admit to spending entirely too much time lost in thoughts concerning the evolution of intelligence. It's difficult to answer the two giant questions regarding it:

1) Why are we the only species with our level of intelligence?
2) What gradual adaptations could have led to it?

It's fascinating to think about; intriguing to read about experiments like these that will some day help us understand.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/he...c6c&ei=5087%0A

I understand the increased risks of geriatric surgery and certainly understand why some patients would rather not undertake intrusive care or surgeries when there is very little to gain.

What I have a problem with is the culture of "respect" that's growing around this type of thing. What scares me is the fast-spreading idea that the elderly should be left alone to die naturally. With "honor" and "dignity".

I absolutely believe people should have a right to choose in this matter. I absolutely believe that a person should be able to choose to not undergo any life-saving measures.

But what protections are in place against abuse? Against peer pressure, both by families and doctors? Against insurance companies refusing to pay if "slow medicine" becomes the socially-accepted standard?

It scares me because I see this happening far too easily. Nobody wants to seem like a selfish asshole. They'll make a decision like this because they think it's what their kids want. Or what their doctors want. Or what they think they're supposed to want.

People's thoughts are too easily molded by others. Rigid safeguards must be put in place.

As for me, I have no problem appearing selfish. Should my life be at risk I'd want every possible course of action taken to save it. Even if it meant becoming a head in a jar.

Only in a brain-death situation would I want to be put down. Anything less is simply unacceptable to me.

So long as I have conscious thoughts I'll want to live.

I enjoy animated content, particularly because good animated shorts are hard to find. Heres one i stumbled across while searching through youtube.


What sorts of content do you guys like to see? Videos, pictures, what themes? Funny, sad, thoughtful? Would be very interesting to know what our regulars, and our visitors find fun, interesting and entertaining.

When animations go awry..

Both appear to have been created by this guy: http://alanbecker.deviantart.com/

Bet ya havnt seen this one before.

Today DranoK and I walked around Sunnyvale, CA for awhile =P
So I decided to take some pictures =) Enjoy!

A spider tree!

Check out this freaky building!

Closer up.. What's inside? a dungeon? Looks like fire came out the side..

Click here for many more photos of Sunnyvale!

The story of the man who re-grew a finger using "pixie-dust" has captured the imagination of many this week. Lee Spievak, 69, chopped off part of his finger - said to be almost down to the first joint - in a model aeroplane accident in 2005. Within weeks, it is said the tip of the finger - including bone, tissue, skin and nail grew back.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7379745.stm

Quite an interesting piece. Clearly, the applications of this treatment, if proven to be completely effective, are limitless over time. Imagine the impact this treatment could have on war veterans injured during the course of battle.

You may notice some new features to the forums =)
Here's a brief list:
* Thread tagging
* Search cloud / tag cloud
* Thread prefixes
* Reciprocal friendships between users
* Public visitor messaging on profile pages with 'conversation' feature
* User picture galleries with user comment facility
* User-created social groups with invite only and moderated membership options
* Extended member profile pages
* Customizable member profile pages with admin-controlled styling abilities
* Inline editing of custom user profile fields
* Lightbox viewer for attached images
* Viewable and comparable history maintained for post edits
* User change history
* Social bookmarking integration

So true.

True story.

People believing nonsense is not unusual. Neither is child abuse.


http://www.godtube.com/view_video.ph...e3e034d00b4f73

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/29/wo...=1&oref=slogin

I'm sure some of you have already heard about this before but how could nobody have found out until now? If I was imprisoned would I just take it and not try to free myself? Did she? We see movies/stories of people like Hannibal Lecter but honestly this man is far worse imo. I doubt the mother had no knowledge of what was going on, especially since she seemed so carefree as to the story of her daughter venturing off to join some "cult."

I too disagree in capital punishment but if I was the daughter I would've went on an Oldboy-esque rampage if my own father did that to me. This isn't really shocking seeing as what humans have done to each other for millennia. I feel vile and sickened just reading this story.

http://www.kctv5.com/news/15996710/detail.html

Regarding a 13-year-old:

Something is very wrong with a society who thinks it's too late for a 13-year-old to be rehabilitated. The only time I would accept this is if there was a severe mental instability involved. The article at least doesn't mention this.

So a kid who was raised with violence acts violent and is therefore lost forever?

Bullshit. Calvinists should rot at the bottom of a dank sewer.

A while ago I posted this. Below is an op-ed to the WSJ that basically blasts it as crap art.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1209...ml?mod=Letters

I fully agree with the WSJ article. I also still think everything I did when I wrote the previous post.

It's an interesting project. It's not art, however. (Well, I'll grant the creative writing part of her project can be considered art. The act--should she carry it out--would not be)

I'm really fucking sick of people throwing the word 'art' around like a trendy banana sucking a lollipop, wearing a fedora and black shades, grinning like it's better than you.

You can't just call something 'art' and have it be such any more than I can call an apple a dildo. If you're trying to say that 'art' is simply a term we use to define a certain type of thing then I completely agree with you. But all words are like that. I can twist any noun into the same pretzel mess art is in.

It's completely pointless to do so, however. A word is only useful so long as it's, you know, useful. If you stretch the word too far it will shatter and fragment and become such pitiful entities as "modern art" or "classical art". Because it's not the fucking word that matters, but the thing. And as long as humans exist we'll continue to use--or fabricate--words to describe these things. Nobody wants to stand in a fucking village saying "Smurf, smurf the smurfing smurf by smurf!"

Something can have value without being "art". This is, in my mind, a large part of the problem. For some reason we can't bring ourselves to assign value to things that serve no function if they aren't art. Which is retarded. If someone wants to pierce their tongue with a shard of dirty glass, suspend themselves in the air and bleed down on series of umbrellas then fine. Great. If they have a reason that makes me think I'll certainly say it has value.

But why should that be considered art?

I'm sure someone, somewhere will read this and think, "Oh, you're just being picky about what you want to consider art. Stop being so narrow-minded."

My answer? Of course I am. That's my entire point. Words have arbitrary definitions that we can assign at will. There's literally no limit to what we can define art as. Pretty soon source code becomes art. A dog pissing in snow becomes art. A man packaging up his feces and selling them in cans becomes art. A dog dying in a corner becomes art.

If I can stretch the definition wide enough I can say everything is art. And if everything is art, then art is everything. Thus, everything is everything.

The word loses all meaning.

So no. This isn't art. Not because it has no value. Not because it isn't creative. Not because it shouldn't be treated with respect.

But it's not fucking art. It's a different beast entirely. Like art, it's a form of expression. It's valuable. It's just not art.