After a long silence, the exxcellent Marvin of The Electric Smack Shack has posted links to Jonathan Miller’s wonderful documentary A Rough History of Disbelief, which apparently is available on Google video. Highly recommended.
Tag: politics
“What A Terrorist Incident in Ancient Rome Can Teach Us” and Thoughts from George Soros
This New York Times piece deals fascinatingly with the parallels between the fall of Rome and what’s happened in the government of the US since 9-11. (Via Shawn Scarber, Insurgent Fantasist) UPDATE: Ritu also posted something along vaguely similar critical lines (though without thoughts of the ancient world), something written by George Soros.
Viridian links
Worthwhile links from the most recent Viridian Note: rubber sidewalks, making fuel from CO2, and evidence of the acceleration of the melting of the ice on Greenland. I worry that no matter what, everything is indeed falling apart. We humans are just stupid enough to keep pushing for cash until the world collapses, I sometime think.
Cheazoid DVDs and a funny T-shirt and thoughts on an old article and airline security
So while I was in Itaewon picking up shirts — short-sleeved shirts, I’m low on them, really, and it’s still warm enough for me to want some for work — I ended up dropping by the Halal food shop, actually one of them, because there are a few, and picked up some Bollywood DVDs. One of them, “Death Walks At Midnight/Aatma”, is totally worthless: it’s two CD-Rs with about 30 minutes of video on each. Krrish/Na Tum Jaano Na Hum are both cinema-rips and when I tried to play them in Totem, the subtitles were wonky — they started at …
Like Totaly wanna be a Top Bloggar!!1
I’ve, like, decided that my way is to b TOP. So I’m gunna spell things wrong and like, refer to people in my life as letters L can be Lime and like the people I work with can be H an L and S and J, and I’m gonna post like a totally long thing about stuff that’s goin on. heee. No, I’m not directing this at anyone in particular, but my god. It just makes me imagine what the slush piles of old looked like, before people cold get their “writing” illusions served by instantaneous self-publishing. I imagine it …