09.29.04
Posted in One World at 1:46 am by Thomas
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 take care not to hurt the feelings of the industry paying for their laboratories. You don’t need a clueless journalist promoted for their fabulous hairdo to give you a “fair and balanced” story about it. All you have to do is to search google news for extreme weather and there you go.
It is probably already too late to completely prevent several disasterous decades of extreme weather that will probably kill more people than the black plague and all the wars of the 20th century combined. Think I exaggerate? Imagine your supermarket. Now imagine that same supermarket empty.
Thanks specifically to the Bush administration and their big-oil inspired pissing session on the Kyoto agreement, there is not much good news left in this issue. With each passing day without conservation measures and with each sold SUV, every attempt to turn away from the brink will be so much harder.
Here’s a very good article by Tom Engelhardt of tomdispatch.com about Global Warming and how little we hear about it…
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09.27.04
Posted in Travel at 8:49 pm by Thomas
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 our first airline for the space age (spaceline?)… and while I will probably have to wait for a little while until the price comes down (I’ve heard rumours of $200k for an early adopter flight), there’s a good chance that I’ll get to go to space before I retire.
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09.26.04
Posted in Modern Life at 10:26 pm by Thomas
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 of time squeezing little spaceships into 8×8 pixel 2-color sprites… all of the summer of 1983 comes to mind. 
Here is a great gallery of some of the best favicons on the web by Michael Pierce, which finally inspired me to get an icon for this site, too!
Via the always great Antipixel.
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09.14.04
Posted in Sad Stuff at 12:36 am by Thomas
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 the great things that are going to happen in Iraq – any day now. And what we get instead is indiscriminate slaughter of civilians in the streets.
Helicopter gunships are firing into groups of unschooled, jobless, futureless teenagers, and we are wondering where all the terrorists are coming from. Look at these pictures. Everybody in these pictures who is not right there bleeding to death will have picked up an AK-47 by nightfall. This one will be a terrorist. And these are dead. These too.
And not just are US soldiers busy slaughtering the locals, no, journalists too. Here is the first-hand account of one of the journalists who survived this massacre on Sunday.
I know that these images are hard to take. If you do only one thing right now, please go and read the article.
Via the All Spin Zone.
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09.11.04
Posted in Rants at 12:57 am by Thomas
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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