Every once in a while, you come across something that is just brilliantly designed. This is one of those things.
I have little to say, except bravo to Knife Party, and yes, sadly the topic of the video is as prescient in 2006 as it was when they wrote it in 2003.
Thanks to Younghui for […]

This BBC article gives some sense of reassurance to someone like me who is constantly frustrated by people’s desire to see what they want instead of what is right in front of them.
Paraphrasing Aldous Huxley: “facts do not cease to exist because we ignore them”.
The environment is obviously a tremendously important topic for human beings, […]

Well, I’ve just started reading this book called The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth by Jeremy Rifkin. (Side note: where are the editors when it comes to book titles these days…sheesh.)
Anyway, I am only three chapters in, but I understand the gist […]

I feel bad for the Iraqis.
I mean, really, come on….they’re governed by an asshole. (Yes, I’m only calling Saddam an asshole…the Hitler references are really a bit much.)
As if that wasn’t enough, they’ve lived under awful economic conditions partly caused by horrible sanctions from the West that the Clinton *and* Bush administrations (1 and […]

More reading of the Einstein book has uncovered this gem, written in a message to the Progressive Education Association in 1934:
“Security for the United States, as for other countries, lies only in a satisfactory solution of the world peace problem.”
The gist of his little essay was that, by virtue of our geography, American schools had […]

Yesterday afternoon I decided to get on my bike and go downtown.
I wanted to all day, but I assumed it would be like a police state down there; that they wouldn’t even let me get close.
Well, that is true; I didn’t get too close, obviously (7 world trade hadn’t yet collapsed), but I got a […]