20 Jul 2008
11 Jul 2008
Guess what’s going to kill us all?
Stupid cell phones and wifi- all because you can’t wait to get home to call someone on a phone with a cord (You know, the way people did it for 70 years without complaint?) What’s really ironic is that now we have scifi communication abilities, but nothing important to say. Beam me up, Scotty.
http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/200/9/1363
In short, the electromagnetic waves from the stupendous increase in cell phones, cell phone towers, wifi, and military communication towers (which is another scary situation) are not only screwing with our minds, they’re screwing with the birds’ and the bees’ ability to navigate. They get lost and die instead of pollinating everything we need to survive. Will the media carry this story? Well, the eighteen advertisements for family cell phone plans pay the bills. Money makes the world go round.
Seriously, was life really that difficult in, say, 1950 that we need all this crap to survive and be happy? Didn’t people entertain themselves? They didn’t go insane with boredom, did they?
02 Jul 2008
The Happening and the disappearing bees
I saw M. Night Shyamalan’s The Happening the other day. I’m not going to give away any spoilers; but when Mark Walberg is teaching his science class about the disappearing bees, I thought “Man, this is going to be a good scary movie.” Because the bees really are disappearing and that’s some really scary shite. Without bees to pollinate our and other mammals’ food sources, we will not last long. Here’s an article from The New Yorker about it.
The movie wasn’t about the disappearing bees, and I imagine it would have been a much better movie if it had been. Much has been made about it being his first R-rated movie. Several violent and gory scenes earned the move its rating, but what’s painful is the fact that these scenes are totally unnecessary to the film. They exist solely for the rating and to make teenagers say, “Cool!” I thought the premise for the movie was good. It just wasn’t executed very well. The viewer always has to suspend disbelief and logic when watching a thriller/horror movie. This movie crossed that fine line into the this-just-doesn’t-make-any-sense category. I’m nit picking about details, and I can’t say anymore without giving the mystery away. It wasn’t awful, but it wasn’t anywhere near his best. I rank it just above Lady in the Water.
The trailer makes it look intriguing though.
