Tag Archives: politics
links for 2007-10-16: Storm worm, floating Utopias
Gathering ‘Storm’ Superworm Poses Grave Threat to PC Nets Bruce Schneier is worried about the Storm worm, which is thought to have infected between one and fifty million PCs at this point, and it’s just sitting there, waiting. No-one has … more…
links for 2007-08-30: del.icio.us, corruption
Del.icio.us Is The Recommendation Service For The Internet informed and detailed appreciation of del.icio.us, found via my del.icio.us network, now reposted to my del.icio.us bookmarks. Meta or what. (tags: del.icio.us recommendations bookmarking) The Great Iraq Swindle: : Rolling Stone How … more…
links for 2007-08-10: fresh basil, Marcel Duchamp, talking points
Mental Masala: Save the basil! A tip to keep it fresh How to extend the life of fresh basil (via Rebecca Blood) (tags: food herbs basil hydroponics) Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp Pretty good (Flash-based) introduction to the work of … more…
links for 2007-07-18: planetary alignments, conservatives
Crescent Moon, Venus, Regulus, Saturn conjunction, 16th July 2007 over Pony Express Lake, Osborn, Missouri, by Dan Bush (via APOD) (tags: astronomy sunsets crescent-moon venus saturn, regulus) AlterNet: Neocons on a Cruise: What Conservatives Say When They Think We Aren’t … more…
Bushaneers
From Pranks.com, and very nicely done… (via Easy Bake Coven)
Olbermann, 5th July
Already widely acclaimed about the place, this clip should be inserted into online reference works under “Incandescence”. Comments have included anxious injunctions about driving cars, getting into private planes, so forth. Enthusiasm wishes him all the best, even if it’s … more…
Shock and Awww, Revisited:
Alain Delorme’s Little Dolls
Extremely creepy photo set about which I have little to say that I didn’t say already about the Greenberg exhibition last year in Shock and Awww. Actually, rereading that post, I find that there is something else to be said: … more…
links for 2007-01-08: farewell Saddam
Thanks for the Memories A brief history of Saddam Hussein (tags: History politics Saddam iraq)
links for 2006-12-12: Rigorous Intuition, Peak Oil, Minsky, Dennett, Pynchon, Orwell
Rigorous Intuition (v. 2.0) (tags: blog politics weird UFO) Peak Oil: Life After the Oil Crash “Dear Reader, Civilization as we know it is coming to an end soon…” – good summary of the imminent energy crisis (tags: peakoil energy … more…
Listen to the Bastard Fairies, Already
Okay, so it’s a tad contrived — I don’t think any 8-year-old is going to be making Pulp Fiction references of her own accord, for one thing — but maximum points for sentiments and candour. A-and for winding up the … more…