December 2008
60 posts
The recent Equality Act makes it clear that discrimination against an individual...
– http://wikileaks.org/leak/bnp-email.txt
The BNP pull equality acts to threaten “neo-Nazis”. Amazing doublethink.
I have another anecdote that has to do with Open Source and the Macintosh. In...
– An interview with Andy Hertzfel
I don’t usually reveal sources, but I think this is incredibly important....
– Larisa Alexandrovna (via azspot) (via thedaytheytriedtokillme)
If your house was on fire, you wouldn’t go somewhere else to put out the...
– Dr. Thynn Thynn on “finding time to meditate”
“They’re made out of meat.”
“Meat?”
“Meat. They’re made out of meat.”
“Meat?”...
– Short Stories: They’re Made out of Meat by Terry Bisson (via s0l)
IrishTorrents.com →
Long overdue.
THE CANTOS OF MVTABILITIE: The Old Irish Verbal... →
Also known as ‘the most demanding intellectual challenge I have experienced in eight years at Oxford University.’
In short, the Old Irish verbal system nearly did for me. I teach this language to postgraduates, and I simply can’t hold it in my head all in one go, without constantly revising it. Now this is of course in part due to my appalling laziness, but some blame has to...
What does “Akuma No Kuma” mean? How does it relate to the song?
It means “Evil...
– CMJ interviews Boris about the Sunn o))) collaboration “Altar”
Rhinoceros Party of Canada →
Select policies
Instituting English, French and illiteracy as Canada’s three official languages
Tearing down the Rocky Mountains so that Albertans could see the Pacific sunset
Declaring war on Belgium because a Belgian cartoon character, Tintin, killed a rhinoceros in one of the cartoons
Changing Canada’s currency to bubble gum, so it could be inflated or deflated at will.