February 2010
28 posts
January 2010
15 posts
It's a test, designed to provoke an emotional...
You’re in a desert, walking along when you look down and you see a tortoise. It’s crawling toward you. You reach down and flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over but it can’t. Not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?
It was a hell of a morning
Woke up late, train was running 17 minutes late, so I hopped on a #6 bus, where a woman was very loudly berating her boyfriend via cellular phone for losing all of her make-up. I sat down next to an grizzly-looking old man who promptly made allusions that the cell phone berater wasn’t speaking english, even though she was, she just happened to be black. Once the bus hit Market st., this...
“On July 21, 1969, while Apollo 11 astronauts finished the first human moonwalk,...”
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There’s something I never knew.
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Obama's Discontents →
I tend to think that people who are disappointed that Obamas’s ascendancy to the throne hasn’t brought about the age of aquarius need to wake up and take a civics class.
Gasbuggy Nuclear Test Site
Called “gas stimulation,” the technique has been used employing conventional explosives, and it was hoped that a larger nuclear explosion would be capable of opening up gas deposits which are not otherwise economically viable. The test called for a 29-kiloton nuclear device to be placed at the bottom of a 4,240-foot deep shaft drilled in a “tight” shale formation known to...
California has more than a 99% chance of having a... →
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Auto-appendectomy in the Antarctic: case report... →
holy crap.
The Right to be Lazy
Paul Lafargue. the Right to Be Lazy
A strange delusion possesses the working classes of the nations where capitalist civilization holds its sway. This delusion drags in its train the individual and social woes which for two centuries have tortured sad humanity. This delusion is the love of work, the furious passion for work, pushed even to the exhaustion of the vital force of the individual and...