21st Century Boy

Was opening my email inbox today, silently hoping for some exciting new messages;
There was a greatly followed-up email threat on "Stereo projection with Coot"
and
Araiza Wein sent a message entitled: More orrgasms
and
Lucie Ladika sent a message entitled: More orgaasms
... oh well ...

Cycling like God in France

Bicycle lanes in France are used as (in order of frequency):
Dog-poo depository
Place where to smash empty wine or beer bottles
Speedway for motorbikes and pizza-delivery mopeds
Short-to-middle term parking spaces for vehicles of all sorts
Place where pedestrians can walk, while listening to loud music and staring at their feet (to avoid dog-poo)
Bicycle lanes

Intranet

As the internet gets faster and bigger, the new capacities get increasingly (ab)used by spam, malware and publicity. How long will it take for that the internet is so filled up with crap that it becomes both, highly dangerous and virtually useless?

Indian Wisdom

John and Ellen Derby called their first son Shankara, their second son Krishna, and their third son Derek.

Convulsive intelligence

Is human intelligence just a human's illusion? Does human intelligence only help to remedy problems it creates, and to explain hypotheses it invents? Human intelligence produced modern medicine, helping people to survive after injuries from wars and car accidents; helping to cure cancer and depression, created by stress and anxiety; helping to cure auto-immune diseases coming from poluted environment; helping to correct problematic eyesight from staring too much at computer and TV screens. Does human mind just investigates a universe itself creates? Without theories of big bangs, would we need to search for signs of it? Is human intelligence convulsive?