Mini-links
- Joan Baez – non-violence in action
- Paul Yarrow – News Raider
- Student Journalist – bends a US senator right over
- Vegetables – committing suicide
- What English Sounds Like – a 1972 song by an Italian, written to sound like it’s English
- You see a beaver in the distance – best randomly connected internet chat ever
Back-chat
Ryan Sproull Archive
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It’s a Unicorn
Posted on June 18, 2010 | 1 CommentWhat is that? It's a unicorn. Never seen one up close before. Beautiful. Get away, get away. I'm sorry. -
A True and Accurate Account of Some Things I Have Been Watching Lately
Posted on May 15, 2010 | No CommentsA brief rundown of shows currently or recently airing around the world. Probably a few minimal spoilers. -
Seal Said it Best
Posted on May 2, 2010 | No CommentsPenny Arcade, sweetness, and clinical depression. -
Quadraspazzed on a Lifeglug
Posted on April 7, 2010 | No CommentsThe trailer for Four Lions, debut feature film from Chris Morris. -
Panopticon
Posted on March 21, 2010 | 2 CommentsI basically assume that I am under constant surveillance. I don't mean that any agency or entity has any particular interest in watching me - my narcissism doesn't quite reach that degree. -
An Interview with Danny Yount
Posted on March 12, 2010 | No CommentsAn interview with Danny Yount, title-sequence ninja responsible for some of the most awesome of title sequences. -
A Special Introduction to a Special Introduction
Posted on March 10, 2010 | No CommentsBecause I get weird compulsions sometimes, I have gone through Ray Comfort's "Special Introduction" to the free copies of Darwin's "Origin of Species" that are being distributed for free by evangelical Christian groups on university campuses around the world. -
Lying for Jesus
Posted on March 10, 2010 | No CommentsFree-book receiver beware: that free copy of Origin of Species is practically a Chick tract. -
Stemming the Tide of HIV
Posted on March 7, 2010 | No CommentsI’m becoming rather attached to these 6pm news-style pun titles. I don’t want to bore you with details I clearly understand very well and much better than you do, but here is the abstract of this research article. These clever folk at UCLA have done-it-in-mice... -
Take your pick
Posted on March 5, 2010 | No CommentsThere’s an ad for TVNZ OnDemand at the moment that goes something like this: “On your deathbed, what kind of life do you want to remember? How about one where you’re surrounded by beautiful people, everyone listens to what you have to say, and you’re... -
RAW Thoughts
Posted on February 22, 2010 | No CommentsHere is a nice Robert Anton Wilson quote. -
Beckless Endangerment
Posted on February 19, 2010 | No CommentsSeriously? "Beckless Endangerment"? Is that the best I could come up with? -
Vegetarianism Kills Planet! (…but not really…)
Posted on February 14, 2010 | 2 CommentsThe mispresentation of vegetarianism: a case study in the spread of fallacy. -
Live Action Role Protesting
Posted on February 13, 2010 | No CommentsWhatever you're doing right now, is it really more fascinating than Palestinian and Israeli human-rights protesters dressed up like characters from Avatar having tear gas fired at them? I didn't think so. -
Help Mira
Posted on February 5, 2010 | No CommentsThis may only be read by RSS feeders (love you), but if you’re in Auckland, you might want to check out the Mira Reil fundraiser charity auction at the Northern Steamship this coming Tuesday. Mira’s 22 and has been diagnosed with a particularly nasty fucker... -
A series of events
Posted on February 4, 2010 | 4 CommentsTo begin with, let me explain that I am looking after a baby bird. -
That argument again…
Posted on January 25, 2010 | 4 CommentsA very brief explanation of why "free will" is a contradiction in terms. -
Quoth the Raven, etc.
Posted on January 21, 2010 | 1 CommentTuesday was Edgar Allen Poe's birthday. It was also Confederate Heroes Day in Texas, but that need not concern us at this time. -
Who dares to love forever?
Posted on January 15, 2010 | No CommentsRay Kurzweil is a nutter who probably drinks his own urine, but in a recent interview with Computerworld he talks about the possibility of human immortality in 30 to 40 years. Health- and youth-maintaining nanobots in the blood, the ability to upload total human personality and memory functionality to a non-biological substrate - the stuff of science fiction is getting closer, faster. -
Suiting Up
Posted on January 13, 2010 | No CommentsHow I Met Your Mother is one of the best comedies on American television at the moment, and last night was their 100th episode. It's become an odd tradition in long-running shows to make round-numbered episodes particularly memorable (who could forget Stargate SG:1's hallucinogenic episode 200?)
