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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. -
That argument again…
Posted on January 25, 2010 | 4 CommentsA very brief explanation of why "free will" is a contradiction in terms. -
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. -
From De Vaults: Selfstalk Blogtrawl No. 1
Posted on January 12, 2010 | 4 CommentsI wrote the following on Tuesday 27 April 2004: I have five cigarettes to last me till morning: But 18 bottles of beer The Kropotkin cryptic this week vexes me. The day today is Tuesday already and I still have two more clues to get.... -
“O Vobis Praeteritos Referam Si Ego Annos” — after Vergil
Posted on January 11, 2010 | 5 CommentsYou know what's wrong with young people today? Too much not being in war. -
The Trouble with Muslims
Posted on January 11, 2010 | 3 CommentsOne of my naive fantasies is that New Zealanders are a pretty decent lot, and that while its trans-Tasman cousin may be the international home of racism, New Zealand is bit more mature than all that. Oh, sure, we've got fringe nuts like the National Front, but they're exceptions that prove the rule. And we do have a certain undercurrent of racial prejudice about the natives - but it's that nice, normal, acceptable level, like the background radiation of cellphone towers. Can't do much about it, not ideal, but we all seem to have agreed somewhere along the line not to talk about it. -
Beck
Posted on October 8, 2009 | No CommentsDid Glenn Beck Rape and Murder a Young Girl in 1990? (dot com) -
Less Lethal
Posted on September 28, 2009 | No CommentsThe G20 protests in Pittsburgh over the weekend probably weren’t as large-scale as the organisers hoped. That didn’t stop the Pittsburgh police (and the military, in umarked cars?) from responding with force. “Less lethal” force, according to police messages. They included OC gas (pepper spray),... -
Sometimes it takes a lie to tell the truth.
Posted on September 23, 2009 | No CommentsThe Yes Men (posted on previously) have a new film coming out, and it looks like it's going to fucking rule. -
The Most Gagged Person in the History of the US
Posted on September 23, 2009 | No CommentsSibel Edmonds, the FBI translator who was fired for raising concerns about corruption, has now gone on the record in an interview in November’s American Conservative. Fortunately, time-traveling pixies have come back from next month and put the interview online. Here’s a snippet: GIRALDI: So... -
You MADE me?! You made ME?!
Posted on September 23, 2009 | No CommentsThe leaked FBI transcript between Rahm Emanuel and Rod Blagojevich (pronounced “Blagojevich”) is highly entertaining. BLAGO: Hey, come on Rahm, let’s not act like I’m a stranger here. EMANUEL: Did I call you a stranger? If I thought you were a stranger, you think I’d... -
Contextual Value (Part I)
Posted on September 21, 2009 | No CommentsThe first of what will probably be several posts on the topic of morality and decision-making. WARNING: Boring to most. -
Drinking Liberally: Lewis Holden
Posted on September 17, 2009 | 8 CommentsA review of the Republican Movement unfair for both its brevity and lack of befuckedness. -
On The Barbershop Quartet: or, a brief primer outlining the rudiments of close-harmony singing drawn from my own experience in the field
Posted on September 13, 2009 | 5 CommentsIn which the relationship between barbershop and gastronomy is explored. -
The floor is yours. Brief me.
Posted on September 10, 2009 | 2 CommentsCharlie Sheen interviews Obama on conspiracy theories - IN HIS IMAGINATION AND RYAN IS A GODDAM FOOL. -
Dining with the King
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This is the future of smoking.
Posted on August 28, 2009 | 2 CommentsDubai Airport, Terminal Four, Gate 125. And there it was in all its glory, the Smoker’s Lounge. If you’re like me and you smoke in the realms of a pack per day, sitting for 14 hours from Brisbane to Dubai without so much as a...
