What the Bleep Do We Know!?

What the Bleep Do We Know!? - The Movie

I saw a trailer for this movie at the Kentucky Theater this weekend. At first glance it looks kind of hokey (well the name and the poster look a little silly,) but once you see the trailer you might find yourself curious, especially if you are interested in the links between cutting edge science and theology. I'm committed to going -- just to see how well they tackle this issue and what spin the producers plan to give it. The idea alone warrants a few hours investment. The website has lots of stuff to read, watch and download if you want to know more.

My favorite part of the trailer is when Dr. Fred Alan Wolf, Ph.D. says, "The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery." Which pretty much sums up my life philosophy. While I am a skeptic I find this entire field very seductive and at the very least, inspiring for my artistic side.

The Kentucky Theater lists What the Bleep Do We Know for October 8th.

Kell's iPod

iPod

I spent a while last night editing this page. All the links to the iTunes Music Store work on my mac, however they seem to go nowhere on my Dell. The links are supposed to open the Music Store in iTunes and take you to the song or playlist. I don't use my Windows machines for audio so I may just have my settings wrong somewhere. At the very least there's a list of songs that you may not associate with me if you're familiar with my DJ career. Some of the songs in my playlist go back to the high school club days at Cignal in Baltimore... and some even further back than that. If the links work for you, you can see some of the "celebrity" playlists I thought were worth checking out.

Rest assured, I'll be working on this section more to resolve these issues and add more features.

The Library

The Library

I've updated the Library page of my website with books I'm currently reading and a favorite books list. All books there are linked to amazon.com for more information and purchasing options if you're so inclined. I'm trying to stay up to date on the "currently reading" list, but I go through them pretty regularly, so we'll how long that lasts...

Blabble - Thought Parsing

Blabble - Thought Parsing

Well, I'm not sure how to feel about this concept. On the one hand it's incredibly seductive. On the other hand, it creeps me out a little to think of a machine at the beck and call of a marketting department reading everything I post. The phrase came up as a a Buzzword of the Day entry this week. It was defined like this:

thought parsing: To filter online
blogs in a manner that allows you
to see what others are thinking
(or at least writing).

The example using the movies on Blabble's home page intrigues me because it does give some democratic power over what types of movies are released to the market. I've always thought Hollywood was out of touch... if they pay attention to this kind of research, then maybe we'll get better movies? A guy can dream right?

This reminds me of the old Max Headroom TV show where the people at the networks had instant access to a show's ratings... like if an actor used a word that people objected to, you could see your ratings dip seconds after he/she had said it. Or if a news story was particularly interesting, your ratings would spike immediately. It has all the makings of a tantalizingly sinister conspiracy.