Dear Friend and Reader,<\/p>\n
Uranus is getting ready to turn stationary direct, an effect that feels like a Mercury retrograde transition, except bigger and more blitzed-out. Perhaps you’ve noticed an extra shot of “zing” in the air lately.<\/p>\n
We’re making snap decisions and then snap revisions while sudden revelations are popping to the surface, and, of course, our electronics are playing games with us. The cumulative effect can be a little like massive short circuiting. But then, that kind of buzz is also the brilliance behind genius innovation and bold personal transformation. It’s the juice that gets the job done.<\/p>\n
For an idea of how this plays out, here are some fun Uranian-themed news items.<\/p>\n
A San Francisco artists wants to replace her one artificial eye with a web-cam. <\/a><\/p>\n “There have been all sorts of cyborgs in science fiction for a long time, and I’m sort of a sci-fi geek,” said Vlach, 35. “With the advancement of technology, I thought, ‘Why not?'”<\/p>\n The eye cam could allow her to record her entire life or even shoot a reality TV show from her eye’s perspective. Vlach said she will let inspiration strike once she has the device.<\/p>\n “There are a lot of ideas floating around…nothing too exploitative,” said Vlach. “I don’t want to be a spy and infringe on people’s rights, and at the same time, there are amazing possibilities.”<\/p>\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n The new Google iPhone application is baffled by British accents.<\/a><\/p>\n When asked to search for “iPhone” the results varied wildly. A user with a Scottish accent found his phone opted to search for the term “sex” instead, and suggested a link to an adult web site. On a second attempt, the search engine looked for “sledding”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Tom Jones makes a surprise appearance in Southbank, London as part of BBC’s The Culture Show Busking Challenge. <\/a><\/p>\n The singer worked the crowd with tricks learned from five decades of performing, entreating his female fans to \u0432\u0402\u045awiggle around just a little bit.\u0432\u0402\u045c One middle-aged woman said that she would have thrown her knickers at him \u0432\u0402\u045aif only it were a bit warmer.\u0432\u0402\u045c<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Fake edition of New York Times claims “Iraq War Ends.”<\/a><\/p>\n More than one million free copies of the 14-page “special edition” newspaper were distributed, mainly in the cities of New York and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n Another bogus story was about all Americans being given free healthcare.<\/p>\n A liberal group called the Yes Men, well known in the US for its practical jokes, claimed responsibility for the elaborate prank. <\/p>\n The fake paper – dated 4 July 2009 – had a motto on its front page which read “all the news we hope to print”.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n What’s your Uranian story this week?<\/p>\n Yours and Truly,<\/p>\n Shanna Philipson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Friend and Reader, Uranus is getting ready to turn stationary direct, an effect that feels like a Mercury retrograde transition, except bigger and more blitzed-out. Perhaps you’ve noticed an extra shot of “zing” in the air lately. We’re making snap decisions and then snap revisions while sudden revelations are popping to the surface, and, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,52,117,452],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}