I was stuck in traffic for 7 1/2 hours today… During that time I listened to two different versions of PWEI’s Ich Bin Ein Auslander. One of them starts with the quote : This White People’s Committee is not embarrassed to admit that we endorse and seek the execution of all…

Zach Wendling of at In The Agora puts it in the best (ie most simple) way I’ve seen so far:

1. From time-to-time, certain individuals will lose their sanity
2. A set of the insane will have violent tendencies.
3. Some of the violently insane will have the means to inflict great damage.
4. Some of…

quintus_marcius

‘s post on philosophy.


> if there are in fact things that we cannot know

Current scientific theory says this very strongly in the uncertancy principle.

> is it not interesting at least to wonder why…

Today is Indian Independance Day. Since I got the day off along with everyone else I decided to go down to the Botanical Gardens at Lal Bagh. This allowed me to see even more evidence of how people in India are split, not just by money and cast but by many attitudes too.

One of the…

Google release some web-api glue to start linking all the diverse social networking sites together (expect for FaceBook which doesn’t want to play) :OpenSocial makes the web better .

TSR completely miss the point by releasing a software package with D&D 4.0 so that people can play…

I listened to an excellent In Our Time the other day about Renaissance Astrology (go here to listen). The show was particularly interesting in light of the recent discussions I’ve been having on here. Astrology was hugely influential in the court of Elizabeth I. So much so that her advisor, John Dee, was…