PetMD recently did a poll of pet owners, and 66% would "not vote for a presidential candidate who is perceived not to like pets." You will remember Mitt Romney's dog story: The incident: dog excrement found on the roof and windows of the Romney station wagon. How it got there: Romney strapped a dog carrier [...] This Kinect game is delightfully visceral and designed to provoke laughs and revulsion in equal measure If there are any Xbox 360 owners out there who remain convinced that Microsoft produced Kinect solely to win over the casual core crowd, they should have a gander at Rise of Nightmares. Developed by Sega, this is a particularly nasty and graphic survival horror game that plot-wise, takes its lead from Resident Evil and the Hostel film franchise. It also puts a premium on bloody dismemberment, flying body fluids and gruesome, wet slapping sounds. The pitch is straight-forward enough; the player takes on the roll of a tourist on holiday somewhere in Europe with his wife. The pair are soon knocked out and kidnapped by an eccentric local, who on the evidence of the demo I played, resides in a massive medieval dungeon. The action starts with the player waking up and taking in their surroundings. In no time at all, they become aware of their captor standing opposite them, fondling the neck of a hysterical man who is tied to a chair. As the poor unfortunate begs and pleads for their life, the chuckling psycho casually brings ... share: digg facebook twitter The Vivid Live Festival in Sydney scored a major coup when curator Stephen "Pav" Pavolic convinced Robert Smith to bring The Cure to Australia to commemorate the 30th anniversary of their seminal tour- de-force Faith, a new wave, post punk, Gothic Dark Side of the Moon. [...] later, Smith supposedly rang "Pav" back to add the band's debut album, Three Imaginary Boys, to the night to "provide context." The three-album event, now given the name "Reflections," grew further in stature as estranged band members were re-enlisted, along with a film crew, to capture and chronicle the event for a DVD release. Smith's decision to "provide context" was a brave move, because Three Imaginary Boys was never to his liking, as it was rush- released by the band's record label and in many places was never issued properly. In some respects, Three Imaginary Boys is a series of family photos; some you wish were lost forever while others privately bring a smile, a cringe or at least a smirk, and some you share proudly with your friends. After a mere 30 minutes (not taking into account the time to flip the ... Installation view of Miroslaw Balka's Nonetheless (2011), via Nordenhake. In a show titled "Nonetheless", Polish artist Mirosław Bałka presents four recent pieces at Berlin's Galerie Nordenhake. The works are composed of wood, nails, steel, plastic, concrete, glass, and light, and have titles referencing the pieces' dimensions. "Nonetheless" hints at an ability do more than expected, [...] Strange and intriguing stuff: Psychol Sci. 2011 May 1;22(5):627-33. Epub 2011 Apr 5. Inhibitory spillover: increased urination urgency facilitates impulse control in unrelated domains. Tuk MA, Trampe D, Warlop L. Source 1Department of Marketing Communication and Consumer Psychology, University of Twente. Abstract Visceral states are known to reduce the ability to exert self- control. In the [...] St. Vincent being Big Black @ Bowery (more by Amanda Hatfield) St. Vincent will release 'Strange Mercy' on on 9/13, her new album for 4AD who say: "The record's 11 new tracks showcase Clark's gift for fusing the cerebral and... Gordon Van Dyke, former producer for Battlefield developer DICE and EA's Visceral Games, has joined Paradox Interactive. Dyke only took the role at Visceral a year ago, where he was working on an unannounced project for Electronic Arts' mature label. "Gordon comes into Paradox at a period of explosive growth meaning he will hit the ground running on several of our projects," CEO Fredrik Wester told GamesIndustry.biz. Read more... words & photo by BBG Citizens Arrest After a three days of mayhem (pictures from day 1 HERE, day 2 HERE, and day 3 HERE) featuring sets from Neurosis, Doom, Lack of Interest, Voivod, Extortion, Aura Noir, and tons of... By MARYA ZILBERBERG, MD A few days ago, several news outlets reported on Newt Gingrich's unfortunate turn of phrase about our President. In a speech in Georgia he referred to Obama as "the most successful food stamp president in modern American history." Promptly, David Gregory of NBC News called Newt on the potential racist [...] Steve Silberman has an excellent piece on Why the GOP Hates the National Science Foundation. > The truth is, the current incarnation of the GOP, frozen in its pose of perpetually indignant outrage, doesn't want additional perspective, more data and nuance, and -- Heaven forbid -- dissenting voices. The impulse to marginalize, condemn, ridicule, and finally choke off dissenting voices is not only what's behind Senator Coburn's war on the NSF, it's behind the GOP- sponsored culture war that has sucked much of the oxygen out of the national discourse for more than a decade now. > > Republicans don't like science and scientists because they are sources of data that are independent of GOP-approved propaganda mills like Fox News. Pesky scientists and academics are always popping up to dispute the Roger Ailes-approved buzz-quote of the day -- on climate change, on health care, on the effects of poverty on the rapidly evaporating middle class, on the diversity of American families, and on the importance of funding basic research instead of commercially-driven ventures constrained by short-term considerations like ROI. > > Today's GOP has a visceral distrust of scientists for the same reason that it has a visceral distrust of ... - His 43rd consecutive victory complete, Novak Djokovic ripped off his white baseball cap, pivoted to look up at his parents, coach and other supporters in the stands, then let out a yell. It was the sort of visceral... The air grows thick. Dark clouds churn like a pot of boiling water overhead. The colors of reality become oversaturated--greens too green, yellow a sickly gold. This is what tornado weather looks like, and the United States has been hit with a lot of it lately. Make no mistake, the past two months don't just seem to be particularly twister-laden. This isn't one of those situations where an increased awareness of what's happening outside our own home states has made an average number of tornadoes appear more spectacular. In just five months, the United States has experienced more tornadoes than we often get in an entire year. And far, far more people have died. 2011 is already the deadliest year for tornadoes since 1953. As of May 23rd, 498 people have been killed. That's a big jump from normal. I was born in 1981. In my entire lifetime, annual tornado deaths in the United States have only broken the 100-person mark three other years--1984, 1998, and 2008. Clearly, there is something different about this year. The question is, "What?" The number of tornadoes is simple fact. It's relatively easy to measure. Definitely easy to report. ... Tweets from Tahrir , a small paperback containing -- mostly -- English- language tweets sent by people on the ground in Cairo during this winter's Egyptian uprising is unexpectedly poignant and moving, and even exciting and suspenseful in places. Obviously only a small minority of those in Tahrir Square were tweeting in English (and a larger minority were tweeting at all), but through this book, a picture of Twitter as a means of quickly bridging together different constituencies emerges -- not everyone was tweeting, but everyone knew people who were tweeting, whether they were in the Square, discovering what was going on elsewhere among the hundreds of thousands of people; or elsewhere in Cairo and wondering if they should take to the streets; or watching from around the world. Twitter, text messages, Facebook and phone calls became a way of shaping the narrative, rebutting the official state media, arguing about the purpose and character of the uprising, and deciding when to hold fast and when to retreat. You get a real sense of Twitter as a thin, somewhat unreliable nervous system that nevertheless turns a crowd into a group capable of explicitly negotiating its actions ... GE Healthcare today announced 510k clearance of CoreScan* - a widely- accessible application dedicated to quickly and accurately quantifying visceral adipose tissue (VAT), or visceral "belly" fat, during body composition analysis. Hosted on GE Lunar's iDXA body composition system, CoreScan provides patients and physicians an advanced tool to quantify VAT in order to help assess, manage, and treat obesity-related disease... There's a strength, a defiance, a _hope_ in this music. The world's a much bigger, richer, sexier, louder, darker, scarier place when one has the opportunity to know everything. So take it. Hefting and peering through a high-end camera lens, you get a sense of the craft, the precision engineering, and the thoughtful design that went into it. But look at it in cross-section, as with this photo a neatly bisected Leica Tri-Elmar-M 28-35-50mm lens and the hellish, gorgeous complexity is revealed in a visceral way: "These were actually made by Leica students as a graduation project and boxed as a 'cutaway model' of the lens." Cross Section Views of Leica Lenses (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)... Angelina Jolie's much discussed directing debut now has a title and a distributor. Graham King and his GK Films partner Tim Headington, who financed it with picture, have placed it with their FilmDistrict shingle. FilmDistrict CEO Peter Schlessel will slot _In The Land Of Blood And Honey,_ the Bosnia- set drama that Jolie scripted, for December 23 release in the US. The film is set against the backdrop of the Bosnian War in the 90s and, according to a statement, "illustrates the consequences of the lack of political will to intervene in a society stricken with conflict. "The film is specific to the Bosnian War, but it's also universal," Jolie said in a statement. "I wanted to tell a story of how human relationships and behavior are deeply affected by living in side a war." Said King: "Working with Angelina on this film and story has been a great collaboration and I am extremely proud of this film,. The filmmaking is impeccable, and signals the arrival of a visceral and compelling storyteller." Jolie doesn't appear in the film and the cast is comprised of locals, many of whom were children of the war. Jolie ...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2011
66% Of Pet Owners Reject People Like Mitt Romney Rise of Nightmares game preview Concert Review The Cure Vivid Live Festival Opera House Sydney Australia 5/31/11 Tucker Carlson uses winter storm on East Coast to attack climate science 'This is course a religion' Go See Berlin Miroslaw Balka “Nonetheless” at Galerie Nordenhake until June 25th 2011 Inhibitory spillover increased urination urgency St. Vincent announces new 4AD album 'Strange Mercy' News Former DICE Visceral producer joins Paradox Maryland Deathfest Day 4 pics & recap Remember Social Media Why Does the GOP Hate Science FRENCH OPEN / Djokovic verge tying McEnroe Tornadoes change and real scientific literacy Tweets from Tahrir selected Egyptian revolution New GE Technology Targets Obesity
