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 [...]

According to a BBC article, Wong Kar Wai has been chosen as the president of the jury for this year’s Cannes Film Festival. He apparently released a statement which contained an amusingly Wong Kar Wai-ish quote: “Every town has its own language. In Cannes, it’s the language of dream.” Mm-hmm… Anyhow, I had to steal [...]

While the United States is celebrating its heroes, who are invading a foreign land and killing people, other heroes are working around the world to save people. Dr. Carlo Urbani, an Italian doctor who spent much of his career tracking infectious diseases among children in Africa, and was among a group that won a Nobel [...]

I was reading a book of essays by Albert Einstein the other day (full report about that some other time), and, in these times of the “war on terrorism”, as the American propaganda machine is calling it, I came across these thoughts about the military by Albert Einstein, in the midst of a rant about [...]