The word for the day is… erethism
erethism
\Er”e*thism\, n. [Gr. ? irritation, fr. ? to stir,
rouse, fr. ? to stir: cf. F. ['e]r['e]thisme.] (Med.)
A morbid degree of excitement or irritation in an organ.
Stumbled across it whilst reading HG Wells, “War of the Worlds”. Very tasty word.
The BBC is really just a huge bee hive with bee/ant like beings living in the ceilings and under the floor. Workers are just drones, they get infected by the hive and carry around insect larva inside them. The hive has natural camouflage as a corporation, as a collective hive they are naturally adjusted to living in the corporate world.
It turns out that all sorts of big companies are run by giant insects. They use all sorts of modern technology; for example they exchange information via electronic pheromones, e-mones. “If only our employees would just get up and rub antennae instead of hovering over their computers. It would be ergonomically better for their exoskeletons if they got up and crawled around.” the hive CEO (Chief Egg Orifice) keeps saying.)
BT (British Termites)
Mycosoft a company run by Mushrooms
IBM (International Beezness Machines)
Sun (antsystems)
PmC (PrayingmantisCrickets)
Crayfish Supercomputing (Not doing well in the industry, too big and old)
First it was a vegtable, then it was a unix shell; the latest incarnation is a fungus based meat substitute. Quorn, deemed to be a healthy and hearty vegetarian substitute (by marketing companies), is now under suspicion. The mycoprotien apparently makes a small percentage of people sick… well it would make a large percentage of people sick if they saw where it came from!
Yes, Pikachu and his little friends can be relegated to the uncool corner of the toybox. Micro pets are released next month at a parent trap near you. Only 3.5 cm tall, they are claimed to be the smallest voice recognition toys in the world. They respond to voice and clapping commands. My favourite already, is Popsy the cat. (Hint, my birthday is in November)
Spiffy litle poems from Michael A Arnzen. Like Edmund Gorey gone bad.
Wonderful! The new Archbishop of Canterbury becomes a druid. Very post-modern, playing for both memes, but it’s just not cricket is it.
“Kitsch is the corpse that’s left when art has lost it’s anger.”
I heard Pamela Stephenson quote it on radio4 this morning. I like it a lot though I missed who the quote was from and cant find it on any search. If anyone else knows who it’s from…
Latest from the ever wacky BBC news. The common potato can prevent cervical cancer. I’m just glad I’m not a woman…. and even happier that it’s not a cure for prostrate cancer.
