Category: General

The Raelians believe that all humanity was genetically engineered by aliens called Elohim: Here’s their own site, and here’s their entry in the Skeptic’s Dictionary

Another Murder Inc. link, this one to the NY Daily News’ Golder Age of New York Mobsters. The piece on Murder Inc. Getting Busted is a nice summary of who was who in the squad.

Murder Inc., a squad of jewish hitmen for the National Crime Syndicate, headed by Albert Anastasia, both links from the Organized Crime pages on About.com.

I learned about them while reading the Ghost Dog roleplaying game.

From this thread What Stephen ‘Mathematica’ Wolfram’s been up to [Robot Wisdom], which starts with a rant about an interview with Stephan Wolfram, who wrote the legendary program Mathematica, I got to The Finite Nature Hypothesis of Edward Fredkin.

Apparently, Fredkin’s theory is that nature is finite, and can be modelled at the most basic level as a cellular automata. In simpler terms, nature is a computer program.

What he’s saying, quite simply, is that we may be living in The Matrix.