I’ve been keeping these tabs open in Firefox since yesterday and I need to clear them out, so here goes:

Building a Brain on a Silicon Chip – Computers are slower, and faster than the human brain. While silicon runs a few orders of magnitude faster than the brain’s measly clock speed, the brain makes up for it in with massive parallel structure. Scientists and researchers are just now starting to explore chip architechture that mimics the human mind. Right now they’re just starting to simulate a small percentage of the brains mass; they can also simulate a week’s worth of neuronal activity in just a few hours. This is very important news. Expect to see human level artificial intelligences in the next few years. It will be the last invention humans invent.

Moses is Departing Egypt:  A Facebook Haggadah – Funny use of FB as a storytelling medium. It’s been done before; it’s still a funny way of telling the story of Passover and the Exodus. Expect to see more and more of this kind of joke.

Understanding the Psychology of Twitter – Let me just say that this is very well written. I think it should be required reading for anyone on Twitter or anyone that’s written a ‘WTF is the point of Twitter’ article. Relates to ‘Twitter as narcissism’, self-actualization and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Most intelligent thing I’ve seen about Twitter so far.

Pretty Lights Music – Goddamn this is good. 3 albums worth of some of the best chill electronica I’ve ever heard. Hopefully someday soon my own productions will reach the level of quality of this guy. Really, really good.

Under a Fluorescent Moon – Jim Kunstler is one angry man. Angry that Obama is committed to ‘sustaining the unsustainable’, mainly suburbia and the car-dependant commuter lifestyle. Angry that America’s fast food fed consumer culture is in for a rude awakening. Angry that the oil companies and the rest of the world are in denial about peak oil and continue to believe that alternative energy will allow us go continue our standard of living. Thankfully, Kunster doesn’t care what you think and instead tells you what you need to hear. He expects that the newfound bull market will evaporate after Memorial Day and predicts economic catastrophe within the next decade. While I hope that he is wrong, it’s still good to keep up with doomsayers like Kunstler and be prepared.

Unqualified Reservations – They’re on part 8 of their introduction. This site is all about government and history and will blow your mind. Forget everything you learned in pubic schools; the author of this site breaks down the propoganda and revisionism of the past 200 years and will leave you questioning everything you’ve ever been taught. This most recent post covers the 20th century. Some challenging reading.