we're all mad here....

Robert Fripp's Diary for Wednesday, 11th February 2009:

[...] on the Human Condition & the denying power inherent within functionality & operational matters that seemingly thwart the vaunting life of the Spirit. There comes a point when we see the world is mad. What to do? Can we be the only sane person in the asylum? And, were this to be so, what then?

Songs I swear the muppets should/could have done...

...had the show continued into the 80s...

• Talking Heads: Once in a Lifetime
• B-52: pretty much ANYTHING, but particularly Rock Lobster, Channel Z, Roam, Love Shack
  
• Bangles: Walk like an Egyptian
  
• Bon Jovi: Wanted Dead or Alive
• Dire Straits: Money for Nothing
• Edie Brickell: What I Am
• Huey Lewis: pretty much anything
• Human League: wouldn't the irony of having one of their monsters sing "Human" be excellent?
• Madness: House of Fun or Our House
• Bobby McFerrin: (song that will not be named)
• Men At Work: Dr. Heckyll & Mr. Jive, and Who can it be now
• Rod Stewart: Love Touch (maybe some weird Midas touch where some muppet turns the others into shades of pink?)
• Thompson Twins: Doctor Doctor

any others?

update: two more came to mind

• Re-Flex: The Politics of Dancing (imagine a bunch of tie-n-coat pigs with "vote for me buttons" suddenly breaking out in song)
• Madonna: La Isla Bonita - A great one for Miss Piggy trying to be all romantic and serious, but kermit comes out with the maracas and keeps trying to make it upbeat...

you are all diseased...

uh, and so am I...

Slashdot | A Quantitative Study of How Memes Spread:

"A survey of about 3,000 people who were tagged in a '25 Random Things About Me' note on Facebook found that memes spread through social networks in a remarkably similar way as diseases [CC] [MD] [GC] do. A biologist who looked at the data says that '"25 Things" authors can be seen as "contagious" under what's known as a "susceptible-infected-recovered" model for the spread of disease,' with a propagation factor of 0.27 in this case. But like an infection, the whole thing died out as quickly as it exploded once the number of 'victims' — people who were willing to write 25 things about themselves — was depleted."

Evolution: description of process, not model for behaviour

bioephemera : Taking Darwin's name in vain:

Evolutionary theory has powerfully influenced our conceptualization of human behavior in fields like sociobiology, neurobiology, psychology, and economics. On the other hand, while it provides an explanatory framework for how we got to be the way we are, can it really offer a template for a better future? Evolutionary processes sometimes favor developments that most people would agree are bad. For example, evolution has given Homo sapiens the unique ability to radically change our environment - so radically that the globe is now heating up and our fellow species are dying off. I don't know if evolution has a problem with that outcome, but I sure do.