Tuesday, March 31, 2009

We're From America - Lyrics - Marilyn Manson


We're From America

We're from America,
we're from America,
where we eat our young
we're from America,
we're from America,
it's where jesus was born

We're from America,
we're from America,
where they let you come on our faces
we're from America,
we're from America,
we speak American

We don't believe in credibility,
because we know that we're fucking incredible
we don't believe in credibility,
because we know that we're fucking incredible

I want to be a martyr don't want to be a victim,
Be a (?) with a gun so they call me a hero,
Want to be a martyr don't want to be a victim,
Be a killer with a gun so they call me a hero

God is an excuse
God is an excuse
God is an excuse
God is an excuse
God is an excuse
God is an excuse
God is an excuse
So sing it with me

We're from America,
we're from America,
we're from America,
you can sing it with me
We're from America,
we're from America,
we're from America,
you can sing it with me

We're from America

We don't like to kill our unborn,
we need them to grow up and fight our wars
We don't like to kill our unborn,
we need them to grow up and fight our wars

We believe in everything we say,
we say it because we believe it
we believe in everything we say,
we say it because we believe it

We're from america,
we're from america,
we're from america,
you can sing it with me
We're from america,
we're from america,
we're from america,
you can sing it with me

We're from america,
you can sing it with me,
from america,
you can sing it with me,

We're from america,
we're from america,
we turn literature into litter
we're from america,
we' re from america,
we believe in being a quitter

I'm in recovery
I'm in recovery
I'm in recover - eeee
from America
from America
from America

So sing it with me
We're from america,
we're from america,
we're from america
you can sing it with me,
we're from america,
from america
we're from america,
you can sing it with me
from america,
you can sing it with me
from america
you can sing it with me
We eat our young
We eat our young
(from America)
you can sing it with me
We eat our young
We eat our young
(from America)
you can sing it with me
We eat our young
We eat our young
(from America)
you can sing it with me
We eat our young
We eat our young
(from America)
you can sing it with me

From the Forth coming Album 'The high End of Low'

This is currently available as a free download from the MM official website

Friday, March 27, 2009

OLED Technology... changing YOUR world in the near future?


OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) technology is just around the corner ...well ok about 2 years away from a 'consumer' point of view.

It's been highlighted as super thin (4.3mm) HDTV's and photo frames..etc.... but that's not what I see as exciting.

The ability to use OLED to light your room therefore dispensing with normal illumination methods - switches /lamps /strip lights etc gives architectural lighting a whole new concept to grapple and play with.
Also the ability to use your available 'window space' as OLED 'frames' and therefore choose to show a sunset - when it is cloudy outside or visa versa if you choose, brings the ability to set your own living environment to your personal taste a step closer.

Obviously if your walls were just 'sheets' of OLED then the ability to show images/ scenes /information within one room would be staggering (maybe this is why they talk about future broadband requirements so much? )
OLED technology does have two drawbacks at the moment that stop it 'Launching' onto the mass consumer market at the moment.

1 It's lifetime for the 'Blue' -in RGB is much less than current lifetimes for LCD and Plasma so therefore is deemed as beneath requirements for 'consumers' after all who wants to pay a fortune for something that only lasts 5000hours?
2 Price - to give you and idea a 7" photo frame Kodak has made currently costs $1000...let you work out what it would cost to cover one of your walls!

For a bit more info check here

Wednesday, March 11, 2009

F1 - New Season

Just thought I'd mention it's 15 days to the start of the New F1 season.
Pleased to see Mclaren seem to be having some 'rear' diffuser problems ...struggling guys ?? hehe

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Right Where it Belongs - NIN (Lyrics)

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Right Where it Belongs

See the animal in his cage that you built
Are you sure what side your on ?
Then I look to closely in the eye
Are you sure what side of the glass you are on ?
See the safety of the life you have built
Everything where it belongs
Feel the hollowness inside of your heart
And it's all ............Right where it belongs

What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems
What if all the world you think you know
Is an elaborate dream
And if you look at your reflection
Is it all you want to be ?
But if you could look right through the cracks
Would you find yourself.......Find yourself afraid to see

What if all the world's inside of your head
Just creations of your own
Your devils and your gods all the living and the dead
And you really are alone

You can live in this illusion
You can choose to believe
You keep looking but you can't find the worlds
Are you hiding in your dreams ?

What if everything around you
Isn't quite as it seems
What if all the world you used to know
Is an elaborate dream
And if you look at your reflection
Is it all you want to be ?
But if you could look right through the cracks
Would you find yourself.......Find yourself afraid to see


NIN - 'Right Where it belongs' - Taken from the Album 'With Teeth' released in 2005.

Previous posting that reminded me of this track 'You Alone'

Monday, March 02, 2009

The Singularity

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Singularity is in effect the 'creation' of computers that can think (a'la A.I.) and can therefore recreate themselves in a more advanced state than the Humans who created them ...hence they can reach 'Singularity'

It covers alot of technological aspects and is covered in in more 'layman' terms here

Effectively aspects of this have been covered in SF for years from Harlan Ellison (I have no mouth and yet I must scream) to more famously William Gibson in his novel 'Neuromancer'.

Films which also refer to a 'Singularity concept' are :
A.I (touched upon it in Cyborg technology)
Terminator in 'Skynet' Robot/Computer technology
2001, Hal can think and make decisions of his own free will
Forbin Project: Colossus - Computers decide that Mankind is a 'virus' and so is to be destroyed.
Demon Seed: Computer decides it wants to be 'Born' so Julie christie is chosen as the mother.

Obviously dramatic intent is the force behind the novels/films but the concepts are based upon 'Singularity' and what effect would 'freeing' the computer from human control have?

I Suppose 'Tyrell' from Bladerunner had the best quote for this:
"More human than human is our motto here at the Tyrell Corporation"