The difference, also known as how much James Cameron doesn’t care that he lost because of politics, feminist pandering, and the underdog effect: $2,582,507,444.

Don’t get me wrong, The Hurt Locker was an excellent movie. But put any director in there and you get the same movie. The same action sequence repeated six or seven times with no character development, and almost no dialogue. Better sound mixing and editing than Avatar? The sounds consisted of bombs, gunfire, and…bombs. A better script than Tarantino’s masterpiece? Give me a break.

Note to film makers: make a movie that almost doesn’t get released, (Slumdog Millionaire anyone?) and when it does, nobody wants to go see it. You’ve got the Oscar in the bag.

Now, I may be cynical when it comes to other people, but that’s because other people prove themselves to be hopeless time and time again. But this is fairly ridiculous. Apparently the ceremonies didn’t represent the “average” Canadian. Let’s think about who the “average” Canadian is.

They aren’t native. They don’t speak French. They weren’t born in the prairies. They have a wife, and 2.1 children. They’re middle class. They wake up every morning and eat breakfast, then drive to work, where they sit in a cubicle at a computer from 9 until 5 fielding emails and phone calls. They drive home in rush hour. Rinse and repeat.

Apparently, that’s what we should have used BC Place Stadium and millions of dollars to show to the world. But no, that wouldn’t have made the cynics happy either. Nothing would have. VANOC could have resurrected Jesus riding a T-REX and they’d still be complaining. So it goes.

Digg.com usually represents a minority on the internet. The young, left of centre, scientifically minded people of above average intelligence. If you look closer though, there’s something foul lurking under that facade. View the comment thread for any climate change article, and you’ll find nothing but deniers. People who actually think that the hacked climate change emails disprove global warming. What’s worse is that these comments are dugg through the roof. Anyone who posts anything resembling reason is quickly buried into oblivion. This is positively fucking despicable.

I’d like to think that this is a coordinated and organised effort, run by the pants-on-head retarded people who plaster pictures of Ron Paul to their walls when not attending tea parties. And then I see comments like this:

“I can’t decide if the world is warming or not, if it’s our fault or not, or wtf.

Seems to change every day, and each side is SURE they are right”

And that’s when I know they’ve won. Because these people don’t have the science or credibility to back up their delusion. That isn’t their goal. All they want is to inject doubt and confusion and controversy where there is none. They’re succeeding beyond belief. The public needs to learn to protect themselves against this.

Science isn’t a democracy. I don’t care how many “scientists” they got to sign a petition denying global warming. It doesn’t mean shit. Just because an email is private and wasn’t meant to be released doesn’t make it incriminating. If you want facts, read peer-reviewed reputable scientific journals; Not anonymous websites and popular science articles.

Remove yourself from your computer and look outside. In Ontario, we’ve just officially had the first November in 70 years without snow. Seventy. Fucking. Years. Polar bears are resorting to cannibalism. Glaciers that have been around for thousands of years are almost gone. This shit is real, and we need to start fighting back.

When an artificial organ becomes more efficient, more powerful, and more long-lasting than its biological counterpoint, it only makes sense to swap out your organs. The new ones wont break down and wont give up. Eventually all the organs in the body except for the brain will be replaced. I’m not sure that we’ll ever fully solve that one, but I’ll remain optimistic. Even bones will be replaced by unbreakable alloys.

As time goes on, a digestive system becomes more unnecessary. An energy source can be injected directly into the body, through some kind of port system. Maybe we’ll be run on solar power. Whatever the case, the only use for food will be to fulfill a culture driven by ingesting the stuff. And that makes me very happy.

Because it means that we’ll be able to separate digestion from absorption. When that happens, “you are what you eat” no longer holds true. You can eat thirty six chocolate cakes, followed by a spit roast apple-in-mouth hog. For breakfast. Praise science.

In the near future though, I’m hoping for something else. A complete separation of nutrient value and taste. Vegetarian food is healthy, but who are they trying to kid? It tastes like shit. All of it. Hopefully using food chemistry, we’ll be able to create something packed with vitamins and other goodies, but tasting like a hamburger with donuts for buns. Nom.

Well, I did. And instead I adopted an African Giant Pouched rat. His name is Chosen One, like Harry Potter, or Anakin Skywalker before puberty. He’s pretty freaking awesome:

So why would I adopt a giant, potentially plague-ridden rodent? You see, Africans are starving because of overpopulation. When governments and charities pump money into Africa it allows more people to be fed, which increases the carrying capacity, which leads to even more overpopulation. You might be helping one sick child, but what you’re really doing is raising the carrying capacity to even more unsustainable levels. Is anyone going to adopt all the dying children when a pandemic restores the balance?

Anyways, Chosen One is a HeroRAT who detects landmines in sub-saharan Africa. He does this by walking over a grid and sniffing for them, up to 100 square meters in 30 minutes. The landmines wont go off because of his small size. In other words, he makes a real difference. You can adopt your own HeroRAT here.

The second mistake was the pacing of the posts. I started off posting ~four articles a month, and multiple sidebar links a day. Obviously that wasn’t sustainable, and the site quickly fell into despair. Expect a more leisurely pace this go around.

I’m also dropping support for IE6. Unfortunately, once rounding is taken into effect, this means I’ll lose one of my six devout readers. Sorry buddy; You’ll be missed, but that’s the way she goes. You’re welcome to come back if you update your browser.