Category Archives: Leviathan
We Can Has?
The jewel amongst the Obama campaign videos. It seems like a year ago I first saw this (maybe it was) and here it is again, amongst a selection of YouTubes at 3quarksdaily. The looming election is making me anxious: possibly … more…
links for 2008-04-21: clone sniffers
BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | S Korea trains sniffer-dog clones Seven puppies have been created using cells taken from a labrador considered by customs officials to be their best sniffer dog.The puppies were born last year after the … more…
Almanac of Precariomancy
XX The Delegate The Delegate is the one who talks without ever saying anything, the one who reaps without having sown. The Delegate stands for the party asking for your vote without making your life any bettter, for the union … more…
Stumbled Upon
It appears from the logs that Your page is now on StumbleUpon! Strangely, the link is directing to the tag page for “US foreign policy” — which is not something that enthusiasm has been much concerned with in recent years, … more…
links for 2008-02-16: post-privacy
“Leaving no trace [of our daily lives] is nearly impossible.” | MetaFilter Privacy, a discussion of the near impossibility thereof. If you’re not anxious about it now, you will be… (tags: privacy anonymity Leviathan panopticon data_mining)
Bostonian Brutalist Frog
Untitled, Seth Tisue, Boston, 2007 There’s links to background on the building, the Boston Government Service Center (BGSC), known as the Lindemann Center ( designed by Paul Rudolph and opened in 1972) which turns out to be notorious: …Rudolph chose … more…
Ski resort, Dubai
Dubai, as noted previously, is expected to become a major exporter of apocalyptic omens, portents and casual weirdness for that arbitrary portion of the coming century that we can describe — with due trepidation — as “foreseeable”. I passed over … more…
Walson’s Mystery Objects
Big Machines Parked In Orbit – Black Ops, Star Wars Or ET? Or All Of The Above? A young man by the name of John Lenard Walson has discovered a new way to extend the capabilities of small telescopes and … more…
Home cooking…
…is killing the restaurant industry. Nice little graphic I ran across on one of those nasty evil, killing-the-entertainment-industry sites just now. Thought I’d share…
links for 2007-11-23: Kissinger, Arthur
LRB ยท Greg Grandin: Sucking up to P A brief history of Henry Kissinger (tags: Kissinger US-foreign-policy politics globospheric) Arthur No. 27 contains an interview with Sun City Girls’ Sir Richard Bishop, written by Erik Davis and illustrated by John … more…