<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3036048683332744381</id><updated>2011-04-21T12:05:58.740-07:00</updated><category term='alicebot'/><category term='singularity'/><category term='melamine'/><category term='war of worldcraft'/><category term='leroy jenkins'/><category term='world of warcraft'/><category term='ai'/><category term='Anthropogenic Global Warming'/><category term='financial crisis'/><category term='dawkins'/><category term='stress reduction'/><title type='text'>brainpeople: the people of the brain</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainpeople.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3036048683332744381/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainpeople.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>J. Opadder</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12812345866511423730</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3036048683332744381.post-1583444220758281288</id><published>2009-01-15T14:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-15T14:12:32.334-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Plane Down, NY City</title><content type='html'>A &lt;a href="http://aktracker.com/skynet/disaster/725/us-airways-plane-crash-into-hudson-river" title="airways plane crash nyc hudson river"&gt;US Airways plane crashed into the Hudson River&lt;/a&gt;... lets try to keep this to large scale remote control plane crashes from now on, please? No people involved...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/YAWwe474YHk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/YAWwe474YHk&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3036048683332744381-1583444220758281288?l=brainpeople.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainpeople.blogspot.com/feeds/1583444220758281288/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3036048683332744381&amp;postID=1583444220758281288' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3036048683332744381/posts/default/1583444220758281288'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3036048683332744381/posts/default/1583444220758281288'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainpeople.blogspot.com/2009/01/plane-down-ny-city.html' title='Plane Down, NY City'/><author><name>J. Opadder</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12812345866511423730</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3036048683332744381.post-3064651471024359838</id><published>2008-10-31T08:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-31T08:30:08.407-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ai'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='alicebot'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='dawkins'/><title type='text'>Dawkins Chatterbot Redux</title><content type='html'>Richard Dawkins, aetheist extraordinaire, has long been an advocate of the science of questioning, and the questioning of science... something the flat earthers often overlook in their 6000 year old fanaticism.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Wzjjxi7f0Oc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Wzjjxi7f0Oc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, let the mans words speak for themselves: (as if &lt;a href="http://alicebot.blogspot.com/2008/10/infradrive-to-sponsor-chatterbox.html"&gt;words could speak for themselves&lt;/a&gt;...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1APOxsp1VFw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1APOxsp1VFw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3036048683332744381-3064651471024359838?l=brainpeople.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainpeople.blogspot.com/feeds/3064651471024359838/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3036048683332744381&amp;postID=3064651471024359838' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3036048683332744381/posts/default/3064651471024359838'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3036048683332744381/posts/default/3064651471024359838'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainpeople.blogspot.com/2008/10/dawkins-chatterbot-redux.html' title='Dawkins Chatterbot Redux'/><author><name>J. Opadder</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12812345866511423730</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3036048683332744381.post-3246547914307141514</id><published>2008-10-29T08:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-29T09:18:48.852-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='war of worldcraft'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='leroy jenkins'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='world of warcraft'/><title type='text'>Population Crisis hits Virtual Worlds</title><content type='html'>As seen in the recent population mark of &lt;a href="http://www.gamespot.com/news/6200145.html" title="virtual people"&gt;11 million virtual people&lt;/a&gt; hit by the World of Warcraft, it may be time for World of Warcraft to become the War of Worldcraft. Whomever can win the war of creating more worlds than their enemies will dominate in this population crisis. Apparently, the theory of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_and_disasters_by_death_toll"&gt;population control through warfare&lt;/a&gt; just hasnt worked out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It may be that its the high resolution thats behind the reproduction urge, but as the recent &lt;a href="http://www.raphkoster.com/2008/10/28/world-of-warcraft-for-the-atari-2600/"&gt;World of Warcraft for the Atari 2600&lt;/a&gt; shows, it may not all be limited to visual stimulation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And of course, the evidence is overwhelming that even the Darwin Awards dont cut into that 11 million...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/LkCNJRfSZBU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/LkCNJRfSZBU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3036048683332744381-3246547914307141514?l=brainpeople.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainpeople.blogspot.com/feeds/3246547914307141514/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3036048683332744381&amp;postID=3246547914307141514' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3036048683332744381/posts/default/3246547914307141514'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3036048683332744381/posts/default/3246547914307141514'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainpeople.blogspot.com/2008/10/population-crisis-hits-virtual-worlds.html' title='Population Crisis hits Virtual Worlds'/><author><name>J. Opadder</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12812345866511423730</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3036048683332744381.post-8091167473374403214</id><published>2008-10-29T08:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-29T08:41:42.697-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='financial crisis'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='stress reduction'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='singularity'/><title type='text'>Planet under Stress</title><content type='html'>Aside from plate tectonics, underwater volcanos, and assorted cometary apocalypse, there are many softer reasons why the planet has come under stress: Lester Browns &lt;a href="http://corporatewatchdogmedia.blogspot.com/2008/10/lester-browns-plan-b-30-for-mobilizing.html" title="lester brown"&gt;Corn and Oil production&lt;/a&gt;, the worldwide &lt;a href="http://rspruk.blogspot.com/2008/10/harvard-economists-on-financial-crisis.html" title="harvard economists on financial crisis"&gt;financial crisis&lt;/a&gt; and its effect on energy use, the overdependence and big effect of &lt;a href="http://news.abs-cbn.com/world/10/29/08/us-military-families-feel-financial-crisis"&gt;military solutions&lt;/a&gt; on military families...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/TLlGkxPIlNg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/TLlGkxPIlNg&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But with all the stress and panic, there are a plethora of solutions for &lt;a href="http://aktracker.com/skynet/disaster/218/how-to-survive-a-stock-market-selloff-panic-financial-depression" title="how to survive"&gt;surviving this worldwide depression&lt;/a&gt;: for behind it all, the brain itself must learn how to manage its own interbrainplanetary stresses. There are a couple of personalities at the forefront of this research, from Dr. &lt;a href="http://aktracker.com/skynet/facebook/356/dr-ronald-chevalier" title="dr. ronald chevalier"&gt;Ronald Chevalier&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href="http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0691.html"&gt;Ray Kurzweil&lt;/a&gt; and his AI brain threat, the &lt;a href="http://wheretheresawilliam.blogspot.com/2008/10/singularity-university.html"&gt;singularity solution&lt;/a&gt;. Overall though, one of the best solutions is the new science of the art of relaxating:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_NtdCq0-Qn8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_NtdCq0-Qn8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3036048683332744381-8091167473374403214?l=brainpeople.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainpeople.blogspot.com/feeds/8091167473374403214/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3036048683332744381&amp;postID=8091167473374403214' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3036048683332744381/posts/default/8091167473374403214'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3036048683332744381/posts/default/8091167473374403214'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainpeople.blogspot.com/2008/10/planet-under-stress.html' title='Planet under Stress'/><author><name>J. Opadder</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12812345866511423730</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3036048683332744381.post-8867932853109684011</id><published>2008-10-29T08:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-29T08:20:52.454-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Anthropogenic Global Warming'/><title type='text'>Planetary Anthropogenic Egoism vs. God</title><content type='html'>While the brain may be the origin of consciousness, sometimes it overruns the global perspective. Anthropogenic Global Warming may be nothing more than a new terminology in the fractious debate over &lt;a href="http://tomnelson.blogspot.com/2008/10/meteorologist-justin-loew-on-global.html"&gt;who caused&lt;/a&gt; the global warming, and who cares who caused it cause all we have to do is figure out how to fix it, and the people of the brain delusions (not to be confused with the people of the brain) want to make sure everyone knows that God has plans for our brains, although God may be Darwin... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ljNDbKpusT0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ljNDbKpusT0&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3036048683332744381-8867932853109684011?l=brainpeople.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainpeople.blogspot.com/feeds/8867932853109684011/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3036048683332744381&amp;postID=8867932853109684011' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3036048683332744381/posts/default/8867932853109684011'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3036048683332744381/posts/default/8867932853109684011'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainpeople.blogspot.com/2008/10/planetary-anthropogenic-egoism-vs-god.html' title='Planetary Anthropogenic Egoism vs. God'/><author><name>J. Opadder</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12812345866511423730</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3036048683332744381.post-3703099995247198663</id><published>2008-10-29T07:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-29T07:58:52.689-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='melamine'/><title type='text'>Fear of the Melamine</title><content type='html'>Wheat Gluten additive put in everything from pet food, to candy, to baby formula. Hows a brain supposed to live?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/BkiqPV3WhYQ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/BkiqPV3WhYQ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3036048683332744381-3703099995247198663?l=brainpeople.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://brainpeople.blogspot.com/feeds/3703099995247198663/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=3036048683332744381&amp;postID=3703099995247198663' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3036048683332744381/posts/default/3703099995247198663'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3036048683332744381/posts/default/3703099995247198663'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://brainpeople.blogspot.com/2008/10/fear-of-melamine.html' title='Fear of the Melamine'/><author><name>J. 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