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Kombucha, My Lord, Kombucha

Last night at Five Minutes of Fame, I gave a talk about kombucha. I occasionally give workshops about kombucha, and I’ve spent a lot of time ruminating and researching on it. So I knew there were dozens of different focii to choose from that would fit in 5 minutes or less, and I didn’t want [...]


Precious Cargo

After donating my car to 826 National (826 Valencia, SF), there’s just one thing I miss it for: watermelons. The Japanese have a solution.


Do Big Cats Like Catnip?

I found a video that shows what happens when you expose big cats to large amounts of catnip. Adorables! But what is it about catnip that does this?


Culture is Your Operating System

Terence McKenna, well-known for his refrain of “culture is not your friend”, explains how thoughts and beliefs occur within a framework, an “operating system” — and if you want to be able to think new thoughts and have different beliefs, you need to change your operating system.


Meme Hacking and the Memetics Conference

Naomi Most is co-organizing the Memetics branch of Notacon, aka MemeHacking. Two websites devoted to memetics analysis and related scientific research have emerged…


All Bosses Suck

I stayed up past pi o’clock on a work night to post a very long comment on a high-falutin’ academic blog that has a mission statement. me=sucker.