2003-10-03

oil reserves 80 percent less than predicted

Apparently its true.

Two days ago the powers that be in the form of CNN deigned to let us know that ...world's oil reserves are up to 80 percent less than predicted, a team from Sweden's University of Uppsala says. Production levels will peak in about 10 years' time...

Great.

In other news the first people to inform me about the above 'Peak Oil' problem are now pointing out that this could have a major impact on world food production.

Man, it just keeps getting better and better.

As I said before, and I'm sure I'll say again, we really don't have time to deal with the current batch of idiots* - we really have much more important things to worry about right now.

* With apologies to anybody that thinks I forgot the word 'evil' in the above sentence.



2003-10-01

Black Box Voting is finally released!

Posting the following here, just because I think its intersting and important. (Not that anybody reads this, except maybe google, in the middle of a dry, windy night).

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An open letter from Bev Harris – blackboxvoting.com

Dear Everybody,

Black Box Voting – The book is out of the gate. Go here for FREE
electronic chapters 1-2. New uploads are scheduled every two
days. (They may come sooner.)

http://www.blackboxvoting.com

The book is also mirrored in PDF format on Scoop's "A Very
American Coup Page"

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=usacoup

I would very much appreciate it if you post every chapter you get at
your web site, distribute them to public officials, call reporters
about them, e-mail this message to your contact lists. If you are a
journalist, review the information. If the site goes down, due to
hacking or legal retaliation by voting machine vendors, write about
it.

If you are a citizen who is skilled with flash media or shockwave,
we encourage you to create presentations; you will find it easy to
script them when you read these chapters. Whether your work
takes a serious or humorous tone, you'll have plenty of fodder to
work with. Write songs, perform poetry, make documentaries.
Don't wait. We can solve this thing, and we can do so quickly, but
you must get involved.

the pweor of the hmuan mnid

The paomnnehil pweor of the hmuan mnid.

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer
be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and
you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the
huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the
wrod as a wlohe.
amzanig huh?

2003-09-30

Gangsta

The world, Bush said, is now riven by "the clearest of divides: between those who seek order and those who spread chaos; between those who work for peaceful change and those who adopt the methods of gangsters; between those who honor the rights of man and those who deliberately take the lives of men and women and children without mercy or shame. Between these alternatives there is no neutral ground."

Well, as I read in someone's sig just now, and as I thought at the time of his speech.. "Actions speak louder than words, and I think it's pretty clear which side of the divide Bush is on."

Dang it. Just noticed I already blogged this. However, this is so good I think its worth blogging twice, eh.