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This is Mac Tonnies' Posthuman Blues Blog as it was captured shortly after his death. We hope future historians, the curious and his friends will read these words and Grok Mac in fullness. More details can be read here.
I'm a Kansas City, Missouri-based author, blogger, Fortean researcher, and occasional speaker. For biographical detail, visit my other website.
Please address all email to macbot [at] yahoo dot com. And yes, I'm on Twitter.
(Masthead by Araqinta.)
Words Frozen in Time
This is Mac Tonnies' Posthuman Blues Blog as it was captured shortly after his death. We hope future historians, the curious and his friends will read these words and Grok Mac in fullness. More details can be read here.
Welcome to the official blog of Mac Tonnies.
I'm a Kansas City, Missouri-based author, blogger, Fortean researcher, and occasional speaker. For biographical detail, visit my other website.
Please address all email to macbot [at] yahoo dot com. And yes, I'm on Twitter.
(Masthead by Araqinta.)
My Books
"A stunning survey of the latest evidence for intelligent life on Mars. Mac Tonnies brings a thoughtful, balanced and highly accessible approach to one of the most fascinating enigmas of our time."
--Herbie Brennan, author of Martian Genesis and The Atlantis Enigma
"Tonnies drops all predetermined opinions about Mars, and asks us to do the same."
--Greg Bishop, author of Project Beta
"I highly recommend the book for anyone interested in the search for extra-terrestrial artifacts, and the political intrigues that invariably accompany it."
--David Jinks, author of The Monkey and the Tetrahredron
"Mac Tonnies goes where NASA fears to tread and he goes first class."
--Peter Gersten, former Director of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy
And don't miss...
(Includes my essay "The Ancients Are Watching.")
Blurbage
"Posthuman Blues is good shit. You humans might like it too."
--John Shirley, author of Crawlers and Eclipse
"Mind-stretching."
--Clifford Pickover, author of Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves
". . . a grabbag of links and pithy blurbs, each a little more curious than the last."
--Feral Intelligence
"Frankly, there's nothing worse (aside from death, global famine, nuclear disaster and all-round armageddon) than seeing players in the UFO field fawning all over their peers at conferences as they seek acceptance into the ufological sand-pit by saying the 'right thing' to the 'right people.' Thankfully, there's none of that in Mac's world."
--Nick Redfern, author of Three Men Seeking Monsters
"Mac Tonnies is undeniably a bit of a weirdo. Perhaps that's why I like him so much, though I agree with nearly nothing that he writes."
--John Brownlee
--John Shirley, author of Crawlers and Eclipse
"Mind-stretching."
--Clifford Pickover, author of Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves
". . . a grabbag of links and pithy blurbs, each a little more curious than the last."
--Feral Intelligence
"Frankly, there's nothing worse (aside from death, global famine, nuclear disaster and all-round armageddon) than seeing players in the UFO field fawning all over their peers at conferences as they seek acceptance into the ufological sand-pit by saying the 'right thing' to the 'right people.' Thankfully, there's none of that in Mac's world."
--Nick Redfern, author of Three Men Seeking Monsters
"Mac Tonnies is undeniably a bit of a weirdo. Perhaps that's why I like him so much, though I agree with nearly nothing that he writes."
--John Brownlee
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- Triptych #15
- "As One" by Makoto Yabuki
- Attention, audiophiles!
- Link-dump #22 (space edition)
- Tube twins
- Tube-girl sighting!
- "The Lady Who Fell to Earth"
- The entomological art of Cornelia Hesse-Honegger
- Skeletons in the planetary closet
- The Knife
- That strange feeling is your head spinning.
- Rise of the tumorbots
- Link-dump #21
- I'm snot making this up.
- Behind the scenes at the Singularity Summit
- I don't have an iPhone . . .
- I think it's about time for another dubious UFO vi...
- You want one, don't you?
- The existential implications of ufology
- This is more like it.
- The art of Xia Xiaowan
- Deja vu
- The bold new look of The Future!
- No bachelor pad's complete without one!
- You can't win.
- Link-dump #20
- Well, that didn't take long.
- You've probably already seen it, but . . .
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- "Then came the great comet, Dionysus."
- New photos
- Ernst Haeckel remixed
- Link-dump #19
- This one really got my attention.
- A breakthrough to warm one's posthuman heart
- Coast to Coast AM
- Some recent (and semi-recent) UFO posts
- Drink up!
- Into the abyss
- Further evidence that we inhabit a cosmic fractal
- Link-dump #19
- Transcendent machines
- More Roswell "insider" testimony
- This picture really bugs me.
- I wish I'd drawn this.
- Ever wondered what might happen if David Cronenber...
- Just ignore it and maybe it will go away.
- I love a good dose of paleo-transhumanism.
- Can't afford your own private wormhole?
- Link-dump #18
- Skywatchers, take note.
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- Nothing says "2009" like the prospect of cyborg co...
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- Crashed UFOs and . . . David Bowie?
- Martin Rees, author of the excellent "Our Cosmic H...
- Physicist David Deutsch ("The Fabric of Reality") ...
- Penelope Boston bypasses NASA's elliptical PR and ...
- Artist of the day: James Paick. Paick's encha...
- Found Image #32
- 2009 To Be One Of Warmest Years On Record: Researc...
- The 50 Best Albums of 2008 Portishead's stellar c...
- Ice on the Moon? Debate Resumes If water ice ...
- Does finding this image oddly arousing make me str...
- This creature and many more right here. (Thanks...
- Our Unconscious Brain Makes The Best Decisions Pos...
- "At long last, WE ARE MARTIANS!"
- Found Image #31
- Scientists plan to ignite tiny man-made star In t...
- Beware of the freaky fractal felines!
- Nick Redfern lays the smack down regarding the inf...
- Is this what Lonnie Zamora saw?
- This year I've written a monthly column for Futuri...
- I was considering writing something pithy and appr...
- Augmented reality meets the iPhone:
- Books to read in 2009:
- The Zorgy Awards are back and Posthuman Blues ...
- Sick of Christmas music as I am? That's what Morr...
- "And if a double-decker bus crashes into us, to di...
- Amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home ...
- Binnall of America has posted a new interview with...
- Enjoying Nature in the Cave Today the walls of Pl...
- The "CARET" drones are back. (Thanks to UFOMy...
- Blind, Yet Seeing: The Brain's Subconscious Visual...
- Storms on Mars! More here.
- Whitley Strieber returns to the enigmatic "Communi...
- okdeluxe XMAS card 2008 from okdeluxe on Vimeo.
- Pink Tentacle explains what we're seeing: Here ...
- The interior of this capsulized home . . . ...
- NASA Study Links Severe Storm Increases, Global Wa...
- Someone please tell me this is a farce inspired by...
- Found Image #30
- 'Sex chip' will have us wired, Oxford University r...
- Punch Hole Clouds & Other Rarely Seen Cloud Format...
- Cities in the Flood Zone One of very many int...
- Whether sensual or disturbing (or both), Bened...
- Dashboard Tree What is that growing on my car das...
- 'Hobbit' Fossils Represent A New Species, Conclude...
- The mother of all swarmbot videos? Part of me e...
- Artist of the day: Alex Sandwell Kliszynski.
- Ladies and gentlemen, the wonderfully deliriou...
- The Five Most Miserable Christmas Songs Among oth...
- I just discovered that science fiction writer Robe...
- Who needs ancient astronauts when the ancient Gree...
- Needless to say, io9's Buildings That Look Like Fa...
- Just a quick post to thank everyone who reads this...
- Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle - WEAV (Mondo...
- Replicating Milgram: Researcher finds most will ad...
- One I missed a month ago: Sun shines on futur...
- Pink Tentacle draws our attention to some fasc...
- Terence McKenna: "I think if it's out of control...
- My new aboutSETI.com piece is a Posthuman Blue...
- Report urges timetable for human mission to Mars ...
- The Bermuda Triangle in the news.
- Rock varnish: A promising habitat for Martian bact...
- Greg Bishop: "What would you do if someone gav...
- Wheel in the sky wows local residents Locals who ...
- An uncommonly thoughtful article on Near-Death Exp...
- Urban Farming: architectural conceptualism abounds...
- Military prototype or captured extraterrestrial re...
- Wow -- this looks almost CGI. Related thoughts ...
- Epic Collection of Sci-Fi Ray Guns (Thanks to...
- Commuters to Generate Electricity From Walking Int...
- DELHI PUBLIC ART: 48 Degrees Celsius Delhi is a c...
- Kevin Randle has been diligently deflecting the ra...
- Europa: Tides of Life? We've speculated that ...
- Here's an outdoor art installation that should ins...
- The above is a mere sample of the wonders in s...
- Whitley Strieber waxes alarmingly maudlin in h...
- A few moments from Posthuman Blues' sixth year...
- Ah-ha! So it wasn't just me!
- Giant Asteroids and International Security A ...
- Skeptologists Attack Ufologists Skeptics on t...
- Did our cosmos exist before the big bang? [Loop ...
- Tesla Burglar Alarm A stunning marriage of beauty...
- Survive the downturn - rent out your swimming pool...
- Could coffee be the alternative fuel of the future...
- Scientists extract images directly from brain ...
- Bettie Page dies at 85; pinup queen played a k...
- Beyond Any Reasonable Doubt: A Supermassive Black ...
- Scientists back brain drugs for healthy people...
- Here we go again . . . Virgin Mary in Fort Pierce...
- William Gibson's "Agrippa" revisited.
- It's amazing what you can do with mirrors and poul...
- The Great Sphinx of Giza reborn as a lion in the d...
- More cyborg erotica . . .
- Ten Ways the World Could End Despite what you may...
- This sleeping sphinx kitten looks deceptively extr...
- Religious 'shun nanotechnology' The researchers c...
- Pink Tentacle has more!
- Simulation Shows Bacteria Could Live on Mars Now,...
- Oh, what the hell. Take a look at these alleged a...
- For my fellow entropy fetishists: The (WU)lti...
- Options for a Red Giant Future Planetary engineer...
- Sign me up.
- Examining these technological relics -- and realiz...
- (Thanks to Reality Carnival.)
- K. Eric Drexler ("Engines of Creation") blogs!
- Wood Plank Found on Mars? "What you're seeing is ...
- Word of the day: "atompunk."
- None of these creatures are exactly cute, but I fi...
- Yep, that's Facebook all right. (Thanks: Next N...
- One I managed to miss: Giant amoebas found rollin...
- Soot Darkens Ice, Stokes Runaway Arctic Melt-Study...
- Kevin Randle responds to the demands of self-appoi...
- If you're jonesing for Armageddon, you're bound to...
- Books that breathe. (Watch for the cat!) (Thanks...
- Panel warns biological attack likely by 2013 "The...
- The Onion at its best: NASA Simulator Prepares As...
- A startling video of a meteor over Edmonton, Canad...
- Ross Lovegrove's Solar-Powered Alpine Capsule The...
- Bizarre absence of acorns in parts of the United S...
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- Facebook Aims to Extend Its Reach Across the Web ...
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1 comments:
This was Robby the Robot, Mechanical Man, drive me and steer me wherever you can. I had one of these and the device in the boys hand had a crank and a trigger. When you cranked, he walked and when you pulled the trigger he turned. Unfortunately, mine didn't come with the apparatus the boy is wearing on his head.
Michael