One of my friends sent me email with a link to this:
Red Alert: Possible Geopolitical Consequences of the Mumbai Attacks
Ignore that blather.
Let me tell you what the real immediate consequences are.
India will be blessed with its very own Bureau of Fatherland Sekkkurity, which will immediately constitute a new, improved Federal Police as well as a […]

Most, although not all, of the free books are PDF files, which is de facto the most useful file format, since it includes fontable (is that a real word?) text, plus images and even clickable links… I’ve used two of them extensively even before finding this list (gutenberg and scribd), but I really like the […]

TELEVISION AND THE HIVE MINDThe other night, in the midst of 3^* kicking ass yet again in Smackdown Trivia, one of the things that passes for intellectual activity here on the Last Frontier, a brief topic of discussion went ’round the table, occasioned by our being the only team to not know the answer to […]

Below is a link to a list of many interesting web pages on the general topics of mapping and otherwise turning data into visual graphic forms.
The other day, I was talking with someone about a site - and its application - that I found a few years ago, which excited me tremendously at the […]

Who Benefits from the $Bail Out$???
The Radical Libertarian: The Bailout in Graph Form

Read all about it, here: Freegan.info
Some excerpts from that site…
Strategies for Sustainable Living Beyond Capitalism
“Freegans are people who employ alternative strategies
for living based on limited participation in the conventional economy
and minimal consumption of resources. Freegans embrace community,
generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in
opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy,
competition, conformity, and greed.”
“Freeganism […]

Biophotons - The Light in Our Cells - Google Search
I have no idea what happens if you click the link. I’m assuming that it goes to google and performs an all-new search - which means that what I’m seeing right now (I’m on a Firefox browser tab, looking at a google search result, and I […]

The Old Man and The Starfish
Close your eyes. Imagine you are looking at a sea shore – standing back a ways and looking down from the big dunes, covered with seagrass. Below you is a long, white beach, curving gently from left to right, stretching as far as you can see. There has been a […]

“For the most part, scientists have come to terms with the existence of an unknown antigravity force permeating the cosmos. This “dark energy” — a conveniently ambiguous term for something no one understands — sticks its nose into cosmology on a regular basis and, increasingly, won’t be denied.”
Someone wrote this horrid bullshit. There’s a link, […]

Quoting: “Sanborn: Sometimes I wonder if the Congress is being bribed or blackmailed. That could explain why they refuse to stop illegal wars and torture.”
I am hard-pressed to believe anyone, even a journalist, would be able to make a statement like this with a straight face. It seems to be far, far beyond explanation in […]