Dr. Hugo de Garis, designer of the monolithic First Generation Brain Building Machine, "CAM-Brain Machine" (CBM) appearing in the foreground, has said that artificial intelligence is far more capable of dominating human intelligence than we would believe and he oughta know. Thinking machines have been the stuff of science fiction for decades and not since Marcel Duchamp created The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even have we seen such an aesthetic representation of the emotional, highly Machiavellian machine linking, in CBM's case producing, artificial intelligence to human experience. Fictions of the machine cut a wide path. From Julien Offray de La Mettrie's 1748 Man A Machine to the Surrealists to Isaac Asimov's The Complete Robot, when Earth is ruled by master-machines and when robots are more human than mankind, we have been fascinated with man's unique relationship to machines.

ASIMO, an advanced humanoid robot made by Honda, is presently touring Europe. Humanoid robots work on LINUX (I knew there was a reason LINUX was so kick-mass). The robot, HRP-2P, runs on a real-time version of the LINUX operating system, called ART-Linux, and is designed for robotic applications, data acquisition and systems control functions. Ya'll gonna have some robot babes soon 'cause the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Lab is investigating biologically based models of emotion and compact series elastic actuators for improved force control (wow!), as the roboette COCO "becomes a fully functioning creature." Better than a Stepford Wife. Big Al knows that man can build humanoids, but where's the heart? Well, Abiomed is producing an artificial heart for HUMANS. Hans Moravec, an artificial intelligence theorist, maintains we will be mass-marketing utility robots before 2010 and fully intelligent robots before 2050. Big Al's question is, WHERE'S THE RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE in all this?

Big Al(142K)

What is the biggest and baddest in the universe? What has the Nobels and Pulitzers crapping their britches? What does not suck but feeds voraciously, indiscriminately? WHAT IS BLOWING THE ROOF OFF THE MO-FO? Let's give it up for Big Al - annus mirabilis - is not that what the man said? Anti matters, mass appeals, kick mass! Inasmuch as this entire site is DUB, (dun' betta) as well as the graphic font, V Dub, as it implodes, the graphics, text and any knowledge which may be acquired are to be used as AMMO in the Revolution of Mass. DUB is AMMO, AMMO is DUB.

Big Mama Earth

Big Al wants y'all to know that he unequivocably disallows HATE, RACISM AND PORNOGRAPHY at A.M.M.O. and applies that criteria to his links. Big Al ain't gonna be like that perve Butt Bashin' Bishop whose site was linked, however "indirectly," to a Butt Bashin' porn site. All the perve needed to do was CHECK HIS LINKS occasionally, and then his links' links. H-m-m, BBs. BB gun. YO, A.M.M.O. Right up your butt, bishop.

UPDATE: 08/25/03: Butt Bashin' Bishop Bites the Big One! Yep, appears this (different) perve got what is commonly known among the population as "prison justice." Some other perve killed him in lockup last night and he went straight to Hell, his Hell, the one he believed in his whole pathetic life. Prolly not a good idea for a child molester to come on to a homophobic thug who's in for life with no chance of parole (he murdered a homosexual). What's he gonna get, another life sentence? Ya gotta wonder where the "guards" were.

Ya'll are prolly scratchin' your empty skulls and thinkin' (sort of) "It sure seems like Big Al hates everybody." Big Al doesn't hate, he loves, especially BIG MAMA EARTH. YO. Big Al gets raw, he get's belligerent, he kick's mass. He uses words like moron, fatass, geek, loser, airhead, and the like. JA man. Notice though that he doesn't use words like retard or dummy 'cause, well that would be hurtful. Y'all, Big Al is a high-school dropout and hit the street when he was sixteen. Whaddaya Want? Big Al feels like the biggest moron in the universe...lookit what those idiots at the Los Alamos Manhattan Project pulled on him. Anyway, rock on ya'll, be good and kick mass!

Big Val(102K)

ANTI-MATTER-MOVEMENT.org "A.M.M.O." is the personal website of Big Val (she's a babe ain't she?) who you see happily flying in the universe of her creation, space and time irrelevant. Big Val loves cyberspace and finds the sharing that takes place on the web awesome. She also loves Adobe Photoshop and HTML 4.0 (write it!). Like the Mandelbrot Sets both are infinitely functional in their simplicity. W3C and iPower Web rule. Big Val believes in goin' with whatcha know and whatcha got. She sure knows how to build a dynamic web site using the barest of bones. Can't tell from lookin' at her but she's a CLASS A GEEK (gives ya'll hope, huh?) AND she be WACOM.

Big Al has been one of Big Val's alter egos from Lawrence Hospital, Bronxville, New York, where Big Val was born early one hot summer morning (new moon in Cancer, sun in Cancer and Cancer rising), to Lawrence Laboratory, Berkeley, California, where she spent some years dreaming to the hum of a Cyclotron. Big Val doesn't pretend to understand everything Big Al says but she loves to hear him talk and talk he does about all her favourite subjects. A.M.M.O. is a DUB site...digital art and science dun' betta, credit always given, graphics for download, and lotsa fun. So get on the HUB and KICK MASS!

B l o o d(167K)

Blood - The River of Life Oh, ain't it the truth. We've all got it and many of you brave souls like to share it. Automated Blood Collection ("ABC"), created by Gambro ("Gamble Bro") allows ya'll to contribute to up to four recipients each blood letting. ABC uses new technology to separate a blood donation into three parts - red blood cells, platelets and plasma. Only the components needed are collected and the remaining portion is returned safely to the donor (what's left I'm wonderin').

YA'LL GIRL PUNKS check out Urban Armor for alternative rags. Ya'll have to stop shoving those nasty mice (plumbers' word for tampons) up your sweet little pussies. HECK, THAT'S RETROGRADE. Blood Sisters talks straight about the toxic feminine hygiene industry. If that ain't enough ON THE RAG might pull ya out of your current states of PMS! SISTAHS, we bleed just as our ancient ancestors...we lost a little ground during the Dark Ages and Inquistion...we bleed, sometimes to death. Malleus Maleficarum the Inquisition's manual for hunting witches, is one of the most blood-soaked works in human history. YA'LL GIRL PUNKS AND PAGANS know that the Red Moon Rising in total eclipse is blood red, Menses, monthly, menstruation. So stop complainin' (SHUT UP), toss the toxic tampons and get educated about the river of life.

Buckminster Fuller(170K)

Magnolias are considered among the most primitive of living, flowering plants, dating back approximately five to sixty-five million years and are named after Pierre Magnol, a French doctor and botanist. One thing's for sure, there's nothing quite like the odor and feel of magnolia scented lotion on the hot summer night skin...when primitive becomes exotic...conjuring genetic olfactory memories romanticizing the future of technology...basking in a dream older than carbon...

Nanoscale science and technology, often spoken of as "nanoscience" or " nanotechnology," is a rapidly growing science of producing and utilizing nano-sized particles that measure in nanometers (1 nm = 1 billionth of a metre). One nanomaterial that is having an early impact in "healthcare" products is nano-silver. Applications include but are not limited to panty liners, sanitary towels and pants. The nano-silver inhibits multiplication of growth of those bacteria and fungi which cause infection, odour, itchiness and sores (crotch rot). Nanoscale titanium dioxide and zinc oxide powders are now commonly used by cosmetics manufacturers for facial base creams and sunscreen lotions, nanoscale iron oxide powder is now being used as a base material for rouge and lipstick, nanoscale titanium dioxide particles are used in the manufacturing of paints with reflective properties, and nanostructured cemented carbide coatings are used on some Navy ships for their increased durability. Yep, creams, lotions, paint (face and facades), and SHIPS. Use the seach term "nanostructured cemented carbide coatings are used on some Navy ships" in [ YAHOO!] and a nine-page prepublication copy of "The Importance of Nanoscale Science and Technology" in PDF will appear at the top of the page. READ IT!

What does all this have to do with R. Buckminster Fuller? We-e-e-e-ll, ya'll have heard of bucky balls, right? How 'bout bucky tubes? HA! GOTCHA! Bucky, dude, geodesic dome to carbon nano-tubes, and the loss of warm magnolia memories. Hindsight is not in this case foresite. Debate all ya want, it ain't gonna change nothin'.

C h a n d r a(100K)

Ya'll, Big Al doesn't have much to say (believe it!) about the Chandra X-Ray Observatory except one day it is going to transmit what Big Al saw back in 1905...the eyes of a fantastic astral amazon looking down upon him from the heavens, all knowing, all seeing, all in the mind's eye. Those crackers at NASA's CXO Project are goin' to lose their stuff 'cause first they're scared poopless of beautiful women and second they've put all their balls into an optical observatory that can't see what Big Al saw long ago...relativity, the most exquisite corpse of all time.

C h a o s(120K)

"I get hit by a mortar, everywhere I go I'm loitering
Chaos and disorder (rulin'/ruinin') my world today."

Lyrics from Chaos & Disorder © 1995 PRINCE Warner Brothers Records.

CHAOS, COMPLEXITY AND DETERMINISM. The phenomenon of chaotic motion has for some time been considered a mathematical oddity but physicists have come to discover that chaotic behavior is universal. Determinism is the philosophical belief that every event or action is the inevitable result of preceding events and actions. In principle, every event or action can be completely predicted in advance, or in retrospect. Determinism became incorporated into modern science around the year 1500 A.D. with the establishment of the idea that cause-and-effect rules completely govern all motion and structure on the material level. According to the deterministic model of science, the universe unfolds in time like the workings of a perfect machine, without a shred of randomness or deviation from the predetermined laws.The person most closely associated with the establishment of determinism at the core of modern science is Isaac Newton. Thus, Newton's three laws of motion.

C H A O S ya'll, from the Greek word Khaos. Chaos was considered by the Greeks the original void of existence, although sometimes described as being a confusing, shapeless entity (take a look around you) which was later ordered, creating the cosmos. Big Al does not want to confuse ya'll but if you apply dialectical theory to chaos you might have a betta understanding OF WHAT'S OCCURING IN THIS SCREWED UP WORLD. There's only one thing we can depend on in this mess, that things change, and change is generated out of chaos. You LINUX geeks, check out A Bazaar at the Edge of Chaos. Whoda thunk they woulda used the principles of chaos and complexity to create that particular piece of kick-mass machinery. Big Al loves chaos. Out of chaos comes the only stability in the universe, change, and change is good. JA!

Cherubs(160K)

"Your children are not your children,
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself...
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, even in your dreams..."
From THE PROPHET © 1923 Kahlil Gibran

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Cherub CARLIE's golden path has taken her to the place where earth's legion of guardian angels reside. She is with our cherubs ADAM, POLLY, DANIELLE, JONBENET and so many others, cherubs all...heaven sent, a spiraled band of angel-winged fractals, heaven bent.

From the beginning of time there have been ghouls who snatch our cherubs and take them to their lairs of evil. According to NISMART-2 research, which studied the year 1999, an estimated 593,600 cherubs were reported missing. This figure does not include family abductions (203,900). Most of these missing cherubs encounter ghouls daily. Ghouls are not human and our treatment of them as such is naive and dangerous. Ghouls are beyond redemption and even destruction: That which does not matter cannot be destroyed. However, ghouls can be used for the good of humankind but that is a discussion for another time.

Big Val and Big Al encourage y'all to be Guardian Angels here on earth and Cyber Angels in cyberspace (please take the Code AMBER Alert Ticker JavaScript source code from this page and put it on your sites). Y'all put on your wings, GET AMMO, and above all BE AWARE, LOVE YOURSELVES AND EACH OTHER.

DNA Surf(134K)

"THE SUN HAD been hot that day in Mendocino County. A dry wind had come out of the east, and nobody knew how hot it had been until, around sunset, the wind stopped. I drove up from Berkeley through Cloverdale headed to Anderson Valley. The California buckeyes poked heavy blossoms out into Highway 128. The pink and white stalks hanging down into my headlights looked cold, but they were loaded with warmed oils that dominated the dimension of smell. It seemed to be the night of the buckeyes, but something else was stirring."

"My little silver Honda's front tires pulled us through the mountains. My hands felt the road and the turns. My mind drifted back to the lab. DNA chains coiled and floated. Lurid blue and pink images of electric molecules injected themselves somewhere between the mountain road and my eyes."--Opening words, Dancing Naked in the Mind Field, © 1998, by Kary Mullis, Pantheon Books.

Kary Mullis' invention of the elegant technique, polymerase chain reaction (PCR), won him the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1993. PCR is a simple, revolutionary method of selectively multiplying and mass-producing specific DNA segments in a very short period of time.

Mullis' pot-smoking, acid-tripping (during which he saw a universe of antimatter), surfer-punk-scientest lifestyle has ROCKED the world of science for years. Now he's taking on the AIDS establishment. Celia Farber talks to the rebel genius.

ARTHUR C. CLARK, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, says of Dancing Naked in the Mind Field "One of the most mind-stretching and inspirational books I've read for a long time. It is also very funny, and I hope that-before it gets banned-myriads of copies infiltrate all the legislatures, colleges and high schools of the United States."

Fat Ass(97K)

YO, Fat Asses, this is how you are supposed to look (he's hung, ain't he?). FO' REAL. Leo DV is rolling over in his grave . LARD-BUTT AMERICA, you are what you eat. You're educated, you're rich, you're mobile, but you keep stuffing those faces with low-density lipoprotein "LDL" cholesterol, FAT (as in FATASSES). Big Al is calling for an INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SHUT UP; nothin' goes in, nothin' comes out. THINK ABOUT IT. No shit, no talkin' shit for an entire day. What a wonderful world it would be.

As you prolly know, the ancients patterned their temples after Vitruvius' De Architectura, geometry of which is the Key to the ancients' architecture, inspiring Leo to create Vitruvian Man. Beautiful, huh? Can you imagine what a house would look like patterned after your SORRY DERRIERES? As Leo DV said, "Nature never breaks its own rules." So, SHUT UP and web quest The Da Vinci Code, check Your Weight On Other Worlds or Big Al's gonna kick your mass.

UPDATE: September, 4, 2003: Good news! Yet another hormone, Peptide YY 3-36 "PPY" ya'll can add to your drug cocktails. According to today's The New England Journal of Medicine PPY inhibits food intake in obese subjects. Course, you could just SHUT UP (fast) like Big Al's been saying. ( Meal skipping helps rodents resist Diabetes, brain damage and inhibits appetite), or you could try stimulating your hypothalamic/pituitary axis to "fool" your system into producing the gut hormone PPY, which shouldn't be too difficult. YO, LARD BUTTS try eating common carrot daucus carota leaves, cultivated or wild. By the way, for ya'll old hippies, Queen Anne's Lace is a wild carrot. Carrot leaves contain significant amounts of porphyrins that naturally stimulate the pituitary gland. Said stimulation leads to the release of increased levels of gut hormones and BONUS sex hormones! Also, little bit of deep (ear) acupuncture and lotsa SHUT UP would help.

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