Extreme Weather

Four hurricanes in one month hitting the east coast… the first hurricane ever hitting Brazil…. the worst Typhoon season ever in east Asia… the hottest summers ever in Europe… glaciers all over the world are disappearing… This, my friends, is what they call Global Warming. You don’t need scientists to crunch the numbers while they [...]

Living the Future

The 21st century started kinda slow. Rocket backpacks for everybody, humanoid robots that can laugh at a joke and outposts on Mars seem to be all delayed for several more years until we get some of the details figured out. But here is something that is so 21st century: Virgin Galactic Yep, we now have [...]

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Icon Mania

While for the longest time I have resisted a favicon for my own site, I have always enjoyed how much can be squeezed into an icon of 16×16 pixels… reminds me a little bit of the old days when one had to handcode sprites for games on 8-bit computers. I must have spent insane amounts [...]

Bringing Freedom to Iraq

Streets littered with pieces of human beings. Pools of blood. Dying and dead piled on the asphalt. Is that the freedom we promised to the Iraqis? The freedom to die? Rocket-propelled freedom delivered by Apache Gunships? For one and a half years now we have been listening to Bush and his moronic henchmen promising all [...]

Fear

It’s amazing to what extent the current US administration is controling the country with fear campaigns. Lies and terror warnings are spread without regard to real security concerns, always perfectly syncronized with the political calendar. Here is a very interesting article about this phenomenon in The Nation: “Vote for Bush or Die“.

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