What to do with SpikeVision?

So Laughing Squid is moving to cloud hosting, and I have to transfer any of my content there from their old dedicated hosting model.  I've got to decide what to do with my SpikeVision site.  I started it back in 1998.  A lot of it was relevant to its time, but I'm beginning to think that I should archive it and move on.  A lot of the writing there now looks pretty weak to my more cynical older self. 

If I do decide to wrap that site up, I will probably update some of my favorites and post them here.

New particle? New fundamental force?

I saw this article a few days ago regarding the possibility that a new particle may have been discovered at Fermilab:

Tevatron accelerator yields hints of new particle

Here is the original paper:
Invariant Mass Distribution of Jet Pairs

A matter of compassion and logic

Usually the things that I write in this space are fairly light-hearted.  This in not one of those entries.

According to Planned Parenthood's website, they service 3 million patients per year.  If Planned Parenthood ceased to function, many of those patients will have no capability to receive services such as pelvic exams and mammograms.  Those women who have the means will seek care from private medical providers.  The private medical system is already functioning beyond the capability to provide adequate care to all of the patients that they already have.  What is the probability that the system will have any capability to bear the increase in patient load that would be caused by the absence of Planned Parenthood?  I am greatly concerned that a crisis in women's health would occur.

So for those opponents of Planned Parenthood who will not be moved by compassion,  perhaps they will be moved by logic.  The services of Planned Parenthood are essential to the health of women in the United States. 

One great big festering neon distraction

I was watching a video on YouTube the other night which shows all major worldwide battles over the last 1000 years.  For some reason, it caused me to ponder the nature of consumer culture.  We are pressed to buy and buy and buy.  One benefit of this is that it keeps us all distracted so that people don't go apeshit on each other as much as they would if not so distracted.  It's just an observation.

Silver lining of the apocalypse

I try to find the good in bad situations.  It’s a terrible character flaw for one who is supposed to be Nihilistic and intimidating, but I deal with it as best I can.  I propose that if these are in fact, the End of Days, and from here on out to our racial demise we are going to be bombarded with an endless cavalcade of catastrophes, that at least until the electricity goes away, I can watch it all unfold in real time.  I don’t have to wait for news from a courier, or for a telegram.  I’ve got broadband and a ridiculous array of channels on the television to keep me supplied with up to the second updates on the demise of humanity, should that ever come to pass.  It’s good to live in the future.

True randomness

They won't be available until next January, but Psyleron will be putting out a key-chain random event generator: Psyleron

Synaptic seepage detected!

So I'm browsing alternate ULC titles.  A friend of mine is a "Universal Philosopher of Absolute Reality", and I've just got "Reverend."  I'm mentioning a few of these to my roommate.  We pick up the conversation there.
 
Me: "you can get Gothi as a title.  I used to be a Gothi" (in the Troth)
G: "I've seen a Goatse."
Me: "Gothi, not Goatse, dammit.  You can't semantically confuse those words.  It causes synaptic seepage!"
G: "Oooh."
Me: "But maybe that's why it echos so much when we call 'Ooooooooodinnnnn!'"
G: Rofls.  Almost literally, 'cause he almost fell out of his chair.