Posts about Etc on Simian Uprising by Jer Clarke

October 23, 2005

haxx0r3d!

Ha Ha. I totally just got hacked by someone named “Net Devil”, who changed my front page to “nEt^DeViL OwNz Your Box!! *n0 w4r* *for the Old Times* for help net_devil@hackermail.com”.

This is embarrassing only because his name is so silly, and because the best he could do was a single line of text in an html file (I wonder if “Net Devil” even knows html?), dude, at least learn photoshop if you’re going to bother tagging people’s sites.

Anyway, all is normal again, thanks to Mira and Tom for pointing out the problem.

October 12, 2005October 12, 2005

God v. logic, over three hundred proofs for gods existence

ARGUMENT FROM CREATION

(1) If evolution is false, then creationism is true, and therefore God exists.
(2) Evolution can’t be true, since I lack the mental capacity to understand it; moreover, to accept its truth would cause me to be uncomfortable
(3) Therefore, God exists.

This kind of argument structuring is pretty much what I did all through my philosophy of religion classes. The logic of faith is so weak it’s depressing how easily the premise-conclusion relationship can be mocked.

(obviously some of these are unfair and oversimplified, but some are spot on (see esp. Ontological Argument I, it’s pretty much the base for them all))

Link (via. snowmit)

October 10, 2005October 11, 2005

music videos

Does anyone remember when music videos were really good, when you’d sit down and see something really amazing and thought provoking, something that would make you smile, and maybe cry a little? I guess it was never like that, but there’s always a few really great ones that sneak through the system and blow you away, they mostly just don’t play on the tv.

Normally I find I can take or leave Bright Eyes, but it seems like M. Oberst has been sneaking around when I wasn’t looking, producing amazing videos and not telling anybody. If you’re only going to watch a couple of videos this week make sure at least one of them is “The First Day of My Life”. If you have another three and a half minutes, check out “Lover I Don’t Have to Love”, if only because the artisanship involved in faithfully reproducing the karaoke aesthetic, in it’s unflattering entirety, is worthy of infinite respect and admiration.

Link to First Day of My Life (pictured above).

Link to Lover I Don’t Have to Love.
(both are on a site that uses embedded WMVs at 300k. If it doesn’t work google around and you should be able to find something that does.)

Those first two links suck ass. If you can handle RealMedia files then try these instead:
Lover I don’t have to Love
First Day of My Life

October 7, 2005October 7, 2005

proactive goalsets – or – market research makes jer go crazy

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Still writing joke cover letters as if it was art? Forget it! To Do lists as self-expression is here, get with the program.

[note the use of mandatory Microsoft at work also makes jer go crazy. ]

September 20, 2005September 20, 2005

transhuman

transhuman - photo by jeremy clarke
(Note: The book pictured is Citizen Cyborg by James Hughes, a thoughtful and compelling nonfiction analysis of the effects technological progress is likely to have on human life and culture, and the political ramifications that have to be considered in light of them. It definitely has some transhumanist bias to it, presenting most nascent technologies as ultimately liberating, but it also focuses on the importance of democratically insuring that the technologies are universally available and regulated for safety, so that the doomsday predictions of the neo-luddites won’t have to come to pass. It’s accessible, eye-opening and exciting all at once.)

September 8, 2005September 8, 2005

Too amazing to miss

What I imagine is called “Five Men” (.mov link) involves what seem to be five of the top trailer voiceover guys (action, romance, suspence, heartwarming and disney) sitting in a limo and having an insane metaconversation about some awards ceremony they’re going to (seemingly something about distributors?). Completely mind-boggling and hilarious.

(via. spizzy)

September 3, 2005

a butterfly story part I: fixings

August 31, 2005

maybe it’s not okay

$maybe it\'s not okay - photo by jeremy clarke$

August 23, 2005August 23, 2005

Finally got a new camera to replace my old fuji I killed with love.

new camera - photo by jeremy clarke
expect something pretty to look at in the near future.

August 20, 2005August 20, 2005

This Spartan Life : Machinima Talk Show

Lifted from BoingBoing but was just too good to pass up.

This Spartan Life is a full featured latenight-style talkshow filmed entirely within an active online multiplayer game of Halo (a popular first-person shooter). Riding the coattails of super-popular fiction videos like Red vs. Blue, which uses the same technique known as Machinima, This Spartan Life really pushes the medium by having real, important new media artists and thinkers appear on the show to do interviews about their work and the implications of gamespaces and VR on communication, all while touring through the Halo universe and avoiding attacks from unknowing gamers just looking for a fight.

Add in the live 8-bit dj (DJ Octobit) and the impressive dance troupe and you have a really fun and genuinely interesting tv show. More than worth the 15 minutes or so it runs.