The mind receives a myriad impressions - trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms... life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from…

I am a box. I’m not joking! And not just any box, but a regular cuboid of 103cm along each side. I am made of wood. Not just any wood, but cheap, medium density fibreboard. Prone to splinters and easily damaged, it has made living my life as an ordinary…

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…

The year two-thousand and seven!? Honestly? 2006 was a good year, especially from a Huge Entity perspective. From a badly organised clump of Internet ooze evolved a mighty idea-beast, dead-set on chewing up the putrid remains of any concept it came across. In…

German philosopher Ernst Tugendhat on religion as a need and the difficulty of satisfying it : Faust avoided Gretchen's question "Do you believe in God?" But what should someone say who refuses to avoid the question and yet isn't naive? I believe that on the…

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…

When Shrigley 's art strikes home, it does so by being believable, operating on a cusp between humour and horror, being in its way truthful, or at least plausible. His humour often relies on the unfunny, the bleak and deflated, the abject. What if someone's…

A pictorial example of North Korea's current weapons arsenal (not to scale)

Ever feel as though being a single ape descended life-form leaves you at a cosmic disadvantage? What would you say if I told you you could make a real difference in this barmy universe? The planet Earth is 10 days away from its biggest encounter with…

Neuroscientists have proposed a simple explanation for the pleasure of grasping a new concept: The brain is getting its fix. The "click" of comprehension triggers a biochemical cascade that rewards the brain with a shot of natural opium-like substances, said…

Just last week, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology named Seth Lloyd published a paper in Physical Review Letters estimating how many calculations the universe could have performed since the Big Bang — 10^120 operations on 10^90 bits of…

When Fu Hsi, a mythical leader of ancient China, had the 8 trigrams of the I-Ching revealed to him supernaturally he was unlikely to have known the significance they would play on British Ministry of Defence denials some 5,000 years later. Perhaps even you,…

Pozzo: (suddenly furious.) Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall…

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobiacs beware! The Day of the Beast is here, a once in a thousand year event. Behold the power of the sum of the squares of the first seven prime numbers! Today is the 6 th day of the 6 th month of the 6 th year (0 6 -0 6 -200 6 )…

Next time you go for the proverbial dump consider the process involved in turning one plate of badly cooked meat and veg into a self perceiving, website reading, procrastinating you . It occurs to me that the chance of atoms, manufactured billions of years…

I have almost finished reading Cliff Pickover's demiurgic reality-guidebook ' Sex, Drugs Einstein & Elves: Sushi, Psychedelics, Parallel Universes and the Quest for Transcendence '. It's been a ride I'd recommend to anyone interested in destroying this…

Mary Magdalen's horny thighs, bore half - baked , hollywood blockbusters through which mullets would shine once more... Past post: Hitler's Other Legacy

Dada is back ! True, 'twas nonsense for art's sake which first cast Dadaism at the fore-front of modern art. Today in its historical absolution from ever arising again Dadaism to me reflects the transcendent nature of 20 th Century art. Merely destroying the…

Aliens! Wide-eyed, short-statured, extraterrestrially-elongated aliens! In a universe as vast as this one (assuming you aren't one of those un-evolved creationist types) alien life of some form or other appears to be a statistical certainty. Yet, in an…

Seems pretty obvious to me. Am I missing anything?

This self reflexive , autopoietic haiku, is defined, then ends.

Mu Haiku is back! If infamy is a viral infection then Jesus is surely the memetic common cold, clogging up the nostrils of civilisation since year nought. This guy was such a fly in the ointment of empire that simply killing him was not enough for the Roman…

Via MonkeyFilter !

Coincidence ? I doubt it... Buddhist prophecy warns of history being a series of cyclical events . T'was only a matter of time before The Mop Top came back round The Wheel of Time - reincarnated atop a mysterious, slightly dopey looking, Messiah boy ... Day…

Sorry Skinny. I don't have a wife... I'll be sure to let you know as soon as I do. Via Metafilter !

www.huge-entity.com turns 365 days old today... Where were you when it all started? The Huge Entity rears back its shaggy maine of nonsense clod fur, cracks wide a pair of blood speckled jaws and lets the universe know its power; truly alive where once t'was…

In 1901 Gustavus Hindman Miller got to work interpreting the symbolism of ten thousand dreams . The nonsense which ensued is destined to cause you much cerebral pleasure this night. What can it all mean? Cheese : To dream of eating cheese, denotes great…

Entities determined to be part of the human configuration: Elemental : Oxygen (65%) Carbon (18%) Hydrogen (10%) Nitrogen (3%) Calcium (1.5%) Phosphorus (1.0%) Potassium (0.35%) Sulfur (0.25%) Sodium (0.15%) Magnesium (0.05%) Other (0.70%) Anatomical :…

In prose nor dialectic, equality you'll find, but semantic perspiration, of testosteron-ic kinds. Today's sceptical enquiries, their beauty will astound, an inner neutral wonder, in Haiku can be found. But please whilst idly glancing, debating inner…

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…

In our semantically governed, symbolic understanding of reality we often maintain that true -identity is possible, that the whirling sensations called 'you' somehow cease at the surface of your skin, all else being distinct. Of course the Buddhist conception…

Your scientific theory has been proven. A monolithic, almost incorporeal time-machine sits in your lab awaiting further attention. Trembling with the tension of 13 billion temporal years yet to travel you dial in your exact time coordinates, pack your tuna…

Hitler's fashion-sense banished small, square mustaches into cultural obscurity.

In a technologically governed world isn't it time we found a modern alternative to the reading of palms ? to weekly horoscopes ? to Bible codes ? to phrenological readings ? The time has come for pure information to have its say on the soul of mankind. As we…

Energy is motion. Decrease the amount of motion down to low enough levels and you virtually suspend reality. Thus time, at these low temperatures, begins to lose its meaning. We all perceive ourselves as composite selves projected along a future moving axis…

Body, volume, style and shine with long-lasting power. Clonycavan Styling Gel, along with mummification in Irish peat, works together with your freshly disemboweled corpse to protect hair from the disruptive power of 2000 years of rigor-mortis. Whether the…

'String Theory' posits that our universe arises from the vibrations of tiny, infinitesimal and multi-dimensional strings of energy resonating in a higher dimension of reality. A beautiful, if complicated idea resting on the very tip of the physics…

Introducing: The hilarious new primetime situation comedy, 'Ones' Synopsis: The worlds of religion and fiction are full of messiahs, prophets and cool ass saviour dudes who think that each of them was the Only chosen One . Now it's time to set the record…

From All Communist Super-Leaders Everywhere! (and The Huge Entity )

As this year draws to a close and my first trip home in 18 months looms large ahead of me, the concept of time has been made prominent in my imagination. 2005? What does it mean? That 2005 years ago some bloke in some nonsense-scripture was allegedly born to…

The Singularity , The Transhuman . Words murmured from the lips of the geek elite? An entire generation of techno-babble is set to evolve from this imagined-movement's self perpetuating beliefs. Are we on the brink of a big shift in human - even planetary -…

This has to be the best advertisment for getting to know God I have ever come across... ' "Thy rod and thy staff shall comfort me..." ~ Psalm 23 Find the true meaning of comfort... Find out what it means to be truly "touched" by God... Find out what Mary…

The Bible has mutated more times than the proverbial Gremlin, and yet I think there is still room for improvement. Hebrew begat Greek begat Latin begat English - and now introducing the Simplified-Chinese Bible . What happens if you translate this into…

As far as conspiracy theories go, this has to be one of the most interesting I have come across: "Predictive programming works by means of the propagation of the illusion of an infallibly accurate vision of how the world is going to look in the future".…

"Nasa has estimated that an impact from [asteroid] Apophis, which has an outside chance of hitting the Earth in 2036, would release more than 100,000 times the energy released in the nuclear blast over Hiroshima. Thousands of square kilometres would be…

"The goal of Project Pterosaur is to mount an expedition to locate and bring back to the United States living specimens of pterosaurs or their fertile eggs, which will be displayed in a Pterosaur Rookery that will be the center piece of the planned Fellowship…

Don't shy away from toilet humour. You never know when it might open doors to worlds hitherto unexplored. The Great John Toilet is one such doorway, propped open by the current human revolution in whale-sized buttocks. Has convenience gone too far? Our goal…

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.…

"Through the British-based Catholic Truth Society, U.S. Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno has penned his response to what he says are questions he gets from the public "all the time" when he gives talks on his work with the Vatican Observatory. Titled…

"UC Berkeley physics professor, Raphael Bousso, is trying to break down the mysteries of the universe with a concept called the holographic principle. Physicists stumbled on the idea while studying black holes. It is a concept, which ultimately questions…

Yes, it's Mu Haiku time again at The Huge Entity ! Get your brains at the ready and your contemplative consciousnesses engaged. A real nonsense splitter today: "The US state of Kansas has ruled that science classes in public schools should include the…

Current estimated human population on Earth: 6.52 billion people Taking a rough guess that around 50% of the world's population is asleep or unconscious at any one moment this means that: Since you started reading this post roughly 2067 human years have been…

Time for another session of Mu poetry ... Mu is a Japanese and Chinese word regarding an absence of/in the negative. When one desires an answer, but your question makes false assumptions, the answer can only be Mu. A radical change of perspective is required…

Halloween is here, a chance to celebrate 1500 years of Pagan icons being transmogrified into popular Christian symbols of evil. To celebrate in time honoured Catholic Papal tradition The Huge Entity will issue each one of its readers with a Halloween…

Southern Japan revels in their insect devastation. The supermarkets seem to hold host to a wide variety of poisons, traps and sprays designed to cause insects a breakdown in their existence. On a recent shopping trip there amongst the cockroach neutralisers…

I've been in a very contemplative mood recently, mulling over the books I've read this year, and the notes that go with them, and feeling as if this website has evolved to the stage where its character has been realised. I keep aiming to start writing…

Mu is a Japanese and Chinese word regarding an absence of/in the negative. When one desires an answer, but your question makes false assumptions, the answer can only be Mu. A radical change of perspective is required before the Mu can be overcome. With this…

If you thought religion grappled with a multitude of concepts that border on the insane , you should take a look at The Huge Entity archives sometime. Is there some sort of higher purpose behind the pulsating nonsense this blog continually erupts? What have I…

In response to the increasingly popular pursuit of offering reward money for the proof or verification of every theory/belief/idea in the cosmos I have decided to introduce the very first: Huge Entity 'Can you Prove Religious Superiority?' Competition! I will…

In the past year I have read a heap load of books (my job gives me a ridiculous amount of free-time) most of which were superb. And so in recognition of my affliction for thrusting information into other people's faces, here are some of my favourite quotes…

Absorboration is the cultural equivalent of osmosis: The diffusion of memes through semipermeable human-brains from states of low data concentration to regions of high data concentration, resulting in a potential difference across the human culture which…

Japan often throws up gorgeous surprises, as if deep under its enormous exterior there was an intention behind its insanity, but it is rare that the insanity, you and your camera all intersect in the same place, at the same instant. So today I decided to do…

"George Bush has claimed he was on a mission from God when he launched the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a senior Palestinian politician in an interview to be broadcast by the BBC later this month. ...Nabil Shaath, who was Palestinian…

The future of technology seems bright. We live in a world where 'progress' is perceived as a defining feature of what makes humans different from the rest of the animal kingdom, but what does that word mean? Where are we moving from and what are we moving to?…

Every night I die. Causation departs the wide eyed experience, inner motions shuffle mental chaos into a semblance of order. A flash of colours, a distant homogeny of previous selves relate in the stasis of dreams my memories and realities. Consciousness…

"According to Mr. Bernard (see diagram) our world is hollow, with the crust of the earth being 800 miles thick. There exists two openings at the North and South Pole, each hole having a circumference of 1400 miles wide. At the center of the earth is not a…

It's official: According to Google this is The ' top blog ' devoted to Huge -ness in the blogsphere! Only thing left now is to take over the world. You heard it here first...

I love the Mind Hacks website. Constantly updated with cutting edge, brain related topics, today being no exception... Want to get up close and personal with the base of your very own consciousness? The winning illustration from The National Science…

Following The Huge Entity's fine history of blatent self promotion it should be no surprise to my readers that I'm about to do it again... Welcome to My Uncyclopedic Realm ! Where Dwarfs know your girlfriend intimately: "The name Dwarf, used mainly in regions…

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Multiple Universes, the sci-fi addicts favourite muse. Everyone knows about them, at least the vague idea, but how can scientists possibly justify their existence? Surely it's science gone bonkers? Well not entirely. It just so happens that the most…

Some positive posting today: The risks of human prosperity: and some ways to avoid them... Climate change: Human designed organisms that can convert excess C02 in the atmosphere into biopolymers and new products - link & The real benefits of Carbon Trading -…

Some big thinkers got together this week at the annual TED Global conference to figure out some stuff. You know the kind of thing 'big' thinkers grapple with don't you? The future; the moral implications of new technologies; reality and all that jazz. Famous…

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…

UPDATE: G8 is over and so, it seems, is any prospect of a Global agreement on environmental issues: 'Global warming is a “serious long-term challenge” requiring“resolve and urgency”, declared the Group of Eight countries on Friday... ...Simon Retallack at the…

Now that the fanfare of Live 8 has subsided those crazy G8 summit members can get right down to the business of saving the world. But maybe in amongst the expensive dinners and fancy cocktails they might reflect on what is, for all intents and purposes, the…

More waves today: Collapsing Quantum Wave Functions and their effects on a time traversable universe. "THE laws of physics seem to permit time travel, and with it, paradoxical situations such as the possibility that people could go back in time to prevent…

"US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has told the BBC his country needs to do a "better job" at communicating its policies to the rest of the world. "I think the US is notably unskilful in our communications and our public diplomacy," he said in Washington.…

"Preferred Photo of Ted Jesus Christ GOD at 40 years of age that is the Second Coming of Jesus Christ and is the Son of man and the Son of David and from a BLOODLINE and LINE and LINAGE and Born Again a Christian and a Nativity and NOT Coming in the sky or…

"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…

Recipe for an act of stupidity: Take 1 kei car (over-used) Fill it with 10 months worth of teaching crap, several hundred old drink cartons and photocopies of your hometown (or a town that looks enough like it has foreign status to fool 2000 Japanese school…

Two, almost unrelated stories today: The shortness of skirts for School girls in Okinawa : ""When I've been walking through the streets recently, I've been stunned by the growing number of girls wearing incredibly short skirts. I don't know where to turn my…

Following recent news that UK Parliament plans to outlaw 'incitement to religious hatred' , isn't it about time that we start being more nice about religion for a change?

Tony Blair (right) and Monty Python's Conrad Poohs (left) bear a striking resemblance don't you think? Politics and comedy, completely interchangeable. Wipe that smile off your face...

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…

UPDATE: Here "Do you believe God belongs in government? Do you believe President Bush is doing The Lord's Work? If so, then show your love for God & the USA!" These words are from the awful website www.bushfish.org and they symbolise everything I despise…

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

A few things today... Picturing the city of Kumamoto after the Cherry Blossom had long since blown away was a painful experience for me. Check out my photo galleries to compare the seasonal bloom with the seasonal bust. Secondly today I'd like to draw…

Our universe is the music resonating on tiny strings of energy composed of 10 spacial dimensions floating through 11 dimensional hyperspace. At least, that's what String Theory says it is, the most infamous and often elusive theory of modern physics. Of…