Flesh-Eating Cyborgs = The Way of the Future

Fuck. Oh well.

"Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot — that's right, "EATR" — 'can find, ingest, and extract energy from biomass in the environment (and other organically-based energy sources), as well as use conventional and alternative fuels (such as gasoline, heavy fuel, kerosene, diesel, propane, coal, cooking oil, and solar) when suitable,'

That "biomass" and "other organically-based energy sources" wouldn't necessarily be limited to plant material — animal and human corpses contain plenty of energy, and they'd be plentiful in a war zone."

Simulated Electronic Brain: "It's the neuronal equivalent of a Mexican wave"

I know about "The Wave" but I've never heard of "The Mexican Wave."

Regardless, guys in white lab coats are racing towards the vanguard to simulate human consciousness, starting by connecting a petri dish filled with rat brains to a super computer.

To wit:

"You can't assemble ever larger data fields and shake it and say, 'Ah, that's how consciousness emerges.'"

Oh snap! Dr. Markham of IBM just got totally faced by Dr. Koch of the California Institute of Technology. Hot scientist-on-scientist hairpulling ensues.

I'm not too worried about this...unless we found a way to connect a virtual, self-aware neural being to some kind of flesh eating cyborg. But that will never happen.

WTF! Curb Your Dog or Brits Love Images of Children Eating Poo

Since its launch, this "anti-fouling" campaign halved the number of dog poo reports in Torbay. It raises a few questions:

1) Who makes a report about a pile of crap? Does a cop come out and write it up? "Can you describe the poo?" Sweet Jesus!

2) Really, DAVID BUTT? This guy was born to be a source in a story about dog mess.

3) "Faeces" could be the coolest British-English spelling of a word. Way better than "colour"

4) Regardless of how effective it is, please do not show pictures of small children eating faeces.

Psionic Dehiscence - July 10

Bastards cancelled...oh well. Here's a heaping hot mess of unprepared free form radio. Take a listen.
PJ Harvey / Yuri-G / Rid Of Me
Richard Strauss / Part 1 / Also Sprach Zarathustra
Elsa Lanchester / Fiji Fanny / Bawdy Cockney Songs
Audio Two / Top Billin / What More Can I Say
Funkadelic / I've Got a Thing, You've Got a Thing / Greatest Hits
Quincy Jones /
Bill Withers / Lovely Day / Greatest Hits
Aaron Neville / Hercules / Grits n' Grooves
Bob Marley / Johnny Was / Rastaman Vibration
Major Lazer / Hold the Line / Guns Don't Kill People...Lazers Do
Tuxedo Moon / What's the Use / Half Mute

Charles Wuorinen / Time's Encomium / Time's Encomium

Creedence Clearwater Revival / Born On a Bayu / The Creedence Collection
Make-Up / Tell it Like it Will Be / Sound Verite
Four Way Cross / Strictly Morphing / Four Way Cross
Tortoise / Flyrod / Tortoise
David Bowie / Memory of a Free Festival / Space Oddity
Neil Young / I Believe In You / After the Gold Rush
Klatuu / Little Meutrino / Klatuu
Grandaddy / Signal to Snow Ratio / Signal to Snow Ratio
Built to Spill / Car / There's Nothing Wrong With Love
The Feelies / Away / Only Life
The Buzzcocks / Real World / I Don't Mind the Buzzcocks

The Power Station / Some Like it Hot / The Power Station

Breaking: SoundArts Cancels!

Oh well...

No guest tonight. Me and the previously-monikered DJ M-80 will be doing something named "Call and Response" where I pick a song, then he vibes off of my song with a selection of his own. Enjoy.

Dorian Concept: Live

Just woke up to Dorian Concept's excellent Feb. 2009 record When Planets Explode. Obese, glitchy goodness. Please enjoy this video of Dorian in action, around the time the record dropped.

Oh yeah...Twitter

So, I'm starting to take the DJ Yuri G multimedia extravaganza a bit more seriously. So, follow me on Twitter... I'm @DJYuriG.

That is all.