Controlled Chaos

The Glenn Beck Haiku Project

you are a mormon
social justice pioneer
that’s only half-right

Tinariwen has the perfect back story for a rock band.

F*ck Yeah, Tattoos.

BBC News – Creative minds ‘mimic schizophrenia’.

Is the difference attributable to schizophrenics just having less inhibitions than creatives, or do creatives get better control of their thought patterns to avoid becoming schizophrenic?

Explanation by pull quote:

“Fewer D2 receptors in the thalamus probably means a lower degree of signal filtering, and thus a higher flow of information from the thalamus,” said Professor Ullen.

Cool pull quotes:

“Creativity is uncomfortable. It is their dissatisfaction with the present that drives them on to make changes.”

“Creativity is certainly about not being constrained by rules or accepting the restrictions that society places on us. Of course the more people break the rules, the more likely they are to be perceived as ‘mentally ill’.”

Is Steve Jobs Big Brother? – Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com.

(No.)

This only makes me want to invest in AAPL more…

Just another way the world might end in 2012…

a.k.a. miracle.

The change from HIV-negative to HIV-positive status during blood testing. Persons who are HIV-positive are called seroconverters.

Dave Chappelle on Actor’s Studio.  This was filmed at Schimmel Center for the Arts at Pace University, where I got my MST-ESOL..!

At about the 52 minute mark, he notes that he is a Muslim.

SWAT served a search warrant at a home, and shot a man’s dog in front of his wife and children.  This is absolutely unacceptable.

Fully 16% of the world is still forced to defecate in public every day. Fascinatingly, there are more cell phones than toilets in the world today.