This comic has been pinned up in my lab for a while, I love it.
Mar 032011
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Nov 112010
Oh, man.
via http://politicalscrapbook.net/2010/11/nus-protest-front-pages/
See what I mean? This is just gross... And you know what? All but one (which one? lol.) cropped out the encircling press photographers. What a fucking circus.
Nov 112010
Window smashed during 2010 student protests in London. Image "courtesy" of BBC.
I can't help seeing this image like this — a lone protestor doing something crazy and anarchistic surrounded by a semicircle of a hundred professional cameras — and wondering if this is anything like good journalism. Sure, this event happened. But it sure looks like a stunt for the cameras, rather than an organic protest event. Would this have happened were the cameras not there to see it? Continue reading »
Jun 182010
At least Clinton Cards now caters to the more Oedipal members of society.
May 292010
This is old, but it's still absolutely fantastic.
Big Ideas (don't get any) from James Houston on Vimeo.
Feb 172010
Aug 032009
This is an absolutely fascinating lecture given by Professor Robert Sapolsky, apparently as part of the Stanford Spring 2002 Human Behavioural Biology course.
It's over an hour long, so it takes some commitment to make it through the whole thing, but I absolutely recommend it.
Jul 222009
India has apparently legalised homosexual relations. Progressive! You should read about it over at Koel's blog, because she's put the time into thinking about it, and knows a lot more about the situation than I do.
Apr 302009
Ahern defends new blasphemy law
Independant.ie writes:
Mr Ahern yesterday defended a fine of up to €100,000 that will be imposed on blasphemers. ... Gardai will now have the power to seize blasphemous material from the home or any other premises used by a person convicted of blasphemy.
Okay, seriously now guys, stop it.
This kind of thing used to be funny. We'd be all "heh, glad I don't live in Saudi Arabia" or "oh, that crazy pope, what'll he get up to next?". But the joke's run its course and it's time to give it up and move along, ok?
Remember, we're trying to build a better world here, and hilarious though pranks like this are, they're getting a little tiresome.