Fascinating article from Wired about hacking senses to create new ones.
Monthly Archive for April, 2007
The Beginning Was the End is a 1971 pseudo-scientific book written by Oscar Kiss Maerth. It claims that mankind evolved from cannibalistic apes.
One ape discovered that eating the fresh brain of one’s own kind increases the sexual impulses. He and his descendants became addicted to brains and hunted for them. It was not until later that they noticed that their intelligence increased as a result. The outcome of this process is HOMO SAPIENS.
– The Beginning was the End, p. 37
I’ve always loved a good cover version, and the internet is a fantastic place to find them. Two sites in particular I watch, or more accurately listen to are Copy, Right?, a blog posting up interesting covers for download, and Coverville, a regular covers podcast.
Today I discovered another covers blog in absonderpop, which has just posted a huge mass of Clash covers. I’ve barely scratched the surface in listening to them, but already found some great gems e.g. The Anacondas version of Guns of Brixton.