A "data cable" made from stretched nerve cells could someday help connect computers to the human nervous system. The modified cells should form better connections with human tissue than the metal electrodes currently used for purposes such as remotely…

I could do with one of these at the moment. From the Proceedings of The Athanasius Kircher Society : In 1588, the Italian Engineer Agostino Ramelli described a novel invention to facilitate the reading of multiple books at once: A beautiful and ingenious…

"...I received from Oxford the manuscript you have examined. I lingered, naturally, on the sentence: I leave to the various futures (not to all) my garden of forking paths . Almost instantly, I understood: 'the garden of forking paths' was the chaotic novel;…

Transformative Potential by Cliff Pickover Reality Carnival In my book Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves I discuss various forms of extinction. Many humans will morph tremendously in 50 to 100 years. In a sense, this is a kind of extinction. We’ll enhance our…

Our Slumbering Super-Organism by Daniel Poynter The Hyperaware Consciousness Future generations will laugh (or cry) in contemptuous hindsight at our apathy and boredom. Why try to change the world? Why get off the couch? The individual doesn't matter…

The Demise of the Demagogue by Armchair Anarchist Velcro City Tourist Board In fifty year’s time, people will look back and laugh at us for a lot of reasons. Apart from the fashions (“d00d, those jeans, like WTF!!!1!1”), what gets the biggest chuckles will…

On reading Stanislaw Lem 's Solaris - a rewarding activity - it might seem that the simulacrum-based goings on can be nothing more than convolouted allegory. So far-fetched are they that one would think their existence, as far as humanity is concerned, is…

Submit to the blog! Here be endless streams of symbols given birth in waves. As the seahorse father issues forth his young - disseminating, in the process, the patterns of parenthood - so shear activity in language breaks the corollary of meaning; necessarily…

Things used to be further away in some popular sense. The world is getting smaller, and not, explained Alan Partridge, due to global warming. Technological progress has resulted in modes of transportation which can move objects like me a long way, quickly.…

The Huge Entity Forum has evolved! Care to behold internet-transmogrification as it happens ? Then prepare to take a look deep beneath the surface of The Huge Entity . Viewer discretion is advised: The Internet is Alive - A Forum Discussion : What? : The…

In past posts I have touched on the idea that we are all the protagonists in our own reality narratives . These realities interrelate in surprising ways which either enrich or contradict our individual, subjective perspectives. In organised religion can be…

Wiki-failure ? Wiki-media ... Wiki-obscurity ? Wiki-totality ... Wiki-hyperbole ? Wiki-hyperreality ...

The ideal of 'the city' has stood as the most physically accessible representation of Utopia since the days of Plato's Republic ; the mental playground from which philosophers and writers have played with the subject of human: Plato (through Socrates)…

The internet has become a vast system for the evolution of conceptual memes of information. Mankind's evolved tendency to relish rumour, to gravitate towards gossip becomes viral in the hyperreal communities of cyberspace. As raw information becomes the only…

Next time you start reading a work of fiction try focusing your mind from this perspective. Who knows more: you or the story's protagonist? The idea of the protagonist extends beyond fiction into the 'real' world. You are the protagonist in the narrative of…

By Purchasing Online Nonsense Creates $ , you get... The realisation that your life is worth nothing unless I say it is! Confidence that my bank account is growing. The freedom to live the life I tell you to. A new self-image that expands my goals and dreams.…

As you may have noticed I have seriously overhauled my blog's design. Where once resided a dodo of the blogging world - incredibly unique, yet clumsy looking; a creature destined to go extinct - you will now find something akin to a duck-billed platypus -…

Yes, The Huge Entity is back, from Mongolia no less, and I come baring gifts... As if viewing my holiday photos wasn't enough ecstasy for your visual cortex I have created an Interactive Map of Mongolia , via Flickr. Throughout the map are several regions…

There is a new world religion in town and it's proponents think it could one day rival even Christianity in its popularity and explanatory power. It is thus: The Universe was created by a Flying Spaghetti Monster and all evidence pointing towards evolution…

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Wikipedia is legendary. The free source, ever evolving online encyclopedia has changed the way people share knowledge. But, as with all good things in life, it was only a matter of time before an opposite slapped itself atop the food-chain. In this case a…

PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail-in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. It is one of the most haunting and captivating ideas I have ever come across... Here are some prime examples direct from the…

The internet is full of joyous, melon splitting fun, just look at this website for instance. Better than a romp in the proverbial bushes with a thousand Pamela Andersons. But what about other places? Could there possibly be any websites that can satisfy your…

"Gay Fuel is pasteurized, has a great fruit flavor, is slightly carbonated and overcomes other energy drinks’ artificial taste. With the energetic goal of creating a superior product, Gay Fuel was formulated using the highest quality ingredients, such as real…

Take a bunch of computer technology, a pile of CDs, bang it all in a table and what do you get? A state of the art way to play and share music. This is one of the coolest things I have seen in a long time... Check out the movie at the link below for an…

Back from the brink... Today, since my entire body feels as if it has been surgically removed and replaced with a box of horse shit I thought I'd save the world of internet surfing for all you lovely folk. Here are some interesting links for you to check out:…

"A pre-kindergartner who included God on his list of 'favorite things' has been expelled from his California school for breaching the wall between church and state. School officials say that three-year old Jacob Sapperstein can return to school next week,…

"The report from the 911 Commission sited a "lack of imagination" as a reason that the World Trade Center hijack/attack was not averted." So in November 2004 Cockeyed asked his site's readers to come up with as many 'creative' terrorist attacks as possible.…

"The family pet can now be one of your favorite Star Wars characters! The Slave Leia pet costume includes headpiece and jumpsuit with attached arms. Pet costumes recommended for dogs only." This is by far the outright strangest thing I have ever seen. I hope…

"When Google announced a 10-year, $200 million plan to digitize the literary world, invoking the assistance of Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Michigan University, and the New York Public Library, France's National Library president Jean-Noel Jeanneney spun around…

Two superb links today. I have noticed recently a thriving online community devoted to Lego engineering projects. Everything from an A-Team Van replica to a fully working Rubic's cube have passed my gaze. Today though I found the bees knees in design. A fully…

Nurses around Japan will now be able to revel in the ability to practice their wares on a lifesize, fully poseable, Obaachan (old woman) doll. I say do with this doll what you like, but there are some inherent problems here - I just can't seem to take my eyes…

Following on from yesterday's story on political and religious ignorance here are two related stories from Slate (online news source): Creationism vs. Intelligent Design: Is there a difference? - Link Conservatism As Pathology: Are Bush supporters literally…

Blogging can be a dry and often inane process, especially when Japan is the subject. The weblog community is crammed to bursting with Japanophilic weblogs, especially from Gaijin authors. So it was with joy in my heart that I discovered The Japanese…

Did North Korea recently fire a short-range missile toward the Sea of Japan? Will holding a time-traveler convention tempt real time-travelers to turn up? Did David Hasselhoff help end the cold war? Do people need help to pluck up the courage to have an orgy?…

Inspired by the forthcoming Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie, and by the simple fact that I've always had a deep rooted desire to carry out this task myself, here is a link discussing the various methods and means of Destroying the Earth . Enjoy

Theological issues burning your inner soul? Questioning your existence leave you overcome with thorough spiritual confusion? Well try out The God FAQ , it hopefully should answer any question you might have on that most reputedly inaccessible of impossibly…

Many regulars to the site may notice a few additions to The Huge Entity today. To make matters of browsing the site a bit easier I have painstakingly included all most posts into del.icio.us Categories. From now on at the bottom of each post will be a list of…

Juergen Specht has a great feature about Japanese warning signs on his site. "Japanese warning signs are very different than warning signs in other parts of the world, because they usually contain a visual and easy to understand reason why something is…