Wednesday Zeitgeist

Hot. So very hot. So hot that I had to ask Mrs Android this question to complete the Zeitgeist:

hey, what's the name of that game where it's a mechanical table with silver balls? and flippers ...

The answer is of course PinBall ...

Now I have to attempt to be all brainy and stuff and code up some ... stuff.


TechStars - start-up incubator. Now if only there was a local one. I proposed moving to Boulder, Colorado for 3 months, but not really convenient this year.

Weasel Words of War. Why use torture when an "extreme rendition" would do the job?

The MacGuffin

How a hanging is supposed to work ... apparently, not that fun.

Daniel Libeskind’s design for Gazprom City, the future St. Petersburg headquarters for Russian energy giant Gazprom:



“Zimbabwe, the land of dying children” by RW Johnson in the Sunday Times.

World Health Organisation figures show that life expectancy in Zimbabwe, which was 62 in 1990, had by 2004 plummeted to 37 for men and 34 for women. These are by far the worst such figures in the world.

Battle of Helms Deep. In Candy

Giant Rabbits to feed the poor

The Nazi Raccoons that Ate Germany. Not even a joke. Nazi. Raccoons.

Buy Sealand! Donate and get citizenship. I think I might pitch in some cash ...

The Heff. Sad, sad old man.

Greatest Martial Arts Moments. I like the one with the Pinball sound effects and the raining bodies.

The future ... it ... lives

"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. . . This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking." - Isaac Asimov

Sentient Developments: Must-know terms for the 21st Century intellectual: Redux. Particularly like: "Information Theoretic Death" and "Bayesian Rationality".

Loops of highly charged particles burst from the sun's surface:



Fermi Paradox
"The Fermi paradox is the apparent contradiction between high estimates of the probability of the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations and the lack of evidence of contact with such civilizations."

Bizarre New Form of Life Found in Arctic Ocean, Scientists Announce

Wednesday Zeitgeist

Today's theme is, of course, love.

Ah ... love.

It's like, TOTALLY AWESOME.

One thing we don't love is Primus Telecom ... we've been billed for our new phone connection despite the fact the phone doesn't actually work. Highly unrecommended service.
And my wife (OMG!) just cracked it about Qantas. So we don't love them at the moment either.
And we also don't love Mr Abbott, do we.


- Man vs Beast. Weirdly disturbing television. I kind-of love it.
- Three things you didn't know about AIDS in Africa.
- Buy land on the moon.
- Learn a language. You never know when Esperanto will come in handy.
- This year I would love to build an arcade machine. I probably won't, but it would be bloody cool to have one.
- Non-lethal viruses to neutralise cities. I love the Cold War, don't you? Infect everyone with a virus that swells their brain!
- 18 Secret Armies of the CIA. I like the Khamba Horsemen the best.
- Taxonomy of Apocalyptic Scenarios. Ranges from Class 0 - Regional Catastrophe through to Class X - Planetary Elimination.
- BTW, Saddam is on Youtube. But you can't have the link.
- Dear John said it was heroic for the Iraqi people to uphold the rule of law despite the fact Saddam was really REALLY bad and they are not having a civil war and stuff. Funny that a tyrannical dictator can get a fair trial , but some illegal combatant poor bastard caught in Afganhistan in a civil conflict by an invading occupational force can't get one. Surely this is unheroic and possibly un-Australian? I'm looking at you, Howard. You fucker.

That's it. Work, if I can remember how to program through all this sunshine and love.