The more I look at these horrible pictures coming out of the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, soldiers wearing my country’s uniform leering over the bare piled flesh of helpless Iraqi civilians, the more my gorge rises. But I think that’s probably because I’m a weak-kneed pantywaist liberal elitist, and because I don’t love my [...]
Despair is like gravity, everywhere and always, a tug you spend your life resisting and succumbing to, by turns. Some people are able to shrug it off more easily than others; for a select few, it’s no effort at all. But sunny dispositions aren’t natural, they’re earned. Despair is the end-state of emotional entropy. It’s [...]
Holy shit, I’m listening to an amazing mix of Public Enemy’s Bring Da Noise and The White Stripes’ Seven Nation Army — the former’s lyrics and rattattat machine gun beats, the latter’s deep thrumming baseline and wailing guitars. What a great idea. It’s on a BBC stream called Essential Mix, which near as I can [...]
Harbingdon, DANSENNE – The trial of the notorious Pandora Killers came to an abrupt end today as Mr Alfred Harper and Mrs Helena Harper, husband and wife, were found guilty on all counts and sentenced to death by a process of slow asphyxiation. As the families of their victims looked on, His High Magistrate Rep [...]
The Sydney Morning Herald has an excellent and hillarious interview with Robert X Cringely, one of my favorite columnists and easily among the best tech writers out there. Well worth reading. Here’s my favorite bit from the interview: Microsoft is about money, not innovation. They aren’t opposed to innovation and like to be seen as [...]
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