Owl is a Snack

Jun 1

Univers Revolved

Letters are an inherently two-dimensional affair. They can convey deep meaning, but are confined to the flat surface of the page. Ji Lee, a designer now with Facebook, was playing around with some 3-D software and noticed that he could rotate litters around their central axis. All of a sudden, they became toy-like shapes.

He was able to use the letter as a physical object, to break away from the linear and build visual representations made from the actual letters of the word.

For starters, can you figure out the words in the lower left? If you feel like that’s too easy, Lee created the world in the bottom right for you to explore (Hint: Try to find “ROCKET”).

See more at Univers Revolved, test your 3-D knowledge, and check out the book on Amazon.

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Another Godless Goddess: 46% of Americans are Creationists

helvetebrann:

And, of course, the poll found that education is associated with an acceptance of evolution.

Most Americans are not scientists, of course, and cannot be expected to understand all of the latest evidence and competing viewpoints on the development of the human species. Still, it would be…

May 29

Obama's "Kill List" includes 17 year old girl

May 27

Timeline of Entheogen Use

May 24

ark289:

forever Dog People

In Jungian psychoanalysis animal symbolism usually represents affect. Snakes represent the physical part of the collective unconscious, the deepest part of the instinctual animal psyche. Higher vertebrates represent cognitive affect*. Thus cats and dogs would be a complex and polarizing symbolic descriptor of affect.

Mood differs from affect in that it is self-directed and self-evident. Inner affect is usually unconscious and shaped over time, forming a boilerplate layer for day to day emotive states and behavioral stereotypy. These patterns form a basis substrate, a semi-permeable railway in which our train of thought must normally remain.

What is interesting is that these things are only symbolic renderings of affect archetypes. With effort these can be reshaped. Strong transforming experiences like this require deep trance. Dreams are the most common example of this, but they are difficult to control. Entheogens can also lead to such a change. The goal is to summon the same symbolic intepreters of the collective unconscious realm that populate our dreams and nightmares.

The collective unconscious is paradoxically formless, assuming human and animal avatars to communicate with the self. These ‘spirits’ are entities that transcend imagery. They momentarily broadcast a small visible fragment of their existence in a particular manner and then transmute. Observing a single entity like this closely eventually builds up a kind of comic, where you can more easily discern its intent.

Cat people, dog people. The actual animal itself is then an outer simulacrum and appropriated persona of an archetype. The crazy cat lady hoarding cats therefore is trying to physically control the archetypes. Yet her unconscious mistakes the persona for their actual substance. This is the same psychological principle that underlies the mythology of voodoo. “Control the puppets, control the person.” How weird is that. Very Weird. Thank you.

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.” Carl Sagan (via lmaoatheist)

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May 22

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quite possibly my favorite post ever

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May 21

Wisconsin police insist family bring cash to bail son out of jail so they visit several ATMs. When the cash is presented for bail, police claim drug dog alerted to the money and confiscate it. No bail and no receipt for the money.

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Oakland (CA) Police Summarily Execute 18-Year-Old Alan Blueford

OAKLAND — A Skyline High School senior is dead after Oakland police profiled and opened fire on him.

The summary execution of 18-year-old Alan Dwayne Blueford happened near 90th Avenue and Birch Street in Oakland early Sunday morning. Mr. Blueford and two friends were standing outside waiting for some young lady friends to come pick them up. According to Oakland police, two of their cops “believed one of them were carrying a hidden gun.” It is unclear how this was determined based on their looks, nor is it clear why that would matter in a country which prides itself on gun ownership rights.

Police say the young men ran (obviously fearing for their lives in the face of paid, constitutionally-protected killers) when they approached them. One of the cops, whose names are being protected by the city of Oakland, ran after Mr. Blueford for two blocks before recklessly firing a gun at the young man, killing him instantly. The cop struck Mr. Blueford three times and shot himself in the foot once. Of course, the killer was rewarded with a paid vacation (aka “paid administrative leave”), despite the long-standing U.S. Supreme Court decision in Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1 (1985), which specifically outlaws police shooting at fleeing suspects without probable cause.

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May 20

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Psychology of the Internet

May 17

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