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crank fatigue
Jan. 9th, 2004 05:11 pmI've said it before and no doubt I'll say it again: Richard Hoagland has seriously lost it. I can't decide if he's parodying himself or just not trying hard enough anymore.
This is exciting - Scientists have been studying the Hawaiian bobtail squid which aims a beam down from its belly as a searchlight when looking for food. Is that really a picture of the squid with that article though? A longer account of the same story is Scientists Discover Luminous Squid. 'Luminous squid', I must remember to use that as a term of endearment sometime.
Works in progress:
- The Myth of the Necronomicon. I wonder if someone has tried collecting all the junky books that are allegedly the Necromicon? There have to have been at least... two.
- Major Bigfoot Expedition Seeking Participation From Corporate Sponsors and Journalists. God bless Bigfoot.
- War of Ideas, Part 1 by Thomas L. Friedman. 'With the Islamist militant groups, we face people who hate us more than they love life. When you have large numbers of people ready to commit suicide, and ready to do it by making themselves into human bombs, using the most normal instruments of daily life — an airplane, a car, a garage door opener, a cellphone, fertilizer, a tennis shoe — you create a weapon that is undeterrable, undetectable and inexhaustible. This poses a much more serious threat than the Soviet Red Army because these human bombs attack the most essential element of an open society: trust.' Cheery.
Marginal Revolution featured some discussion recently on 'Cads vs. Dads', that includes the observation from one of their readers, "Why is a Cad a Cad? I think it is because: He can be." I've thought this for some time now, but never dressed the idea up with gene competition theories or the like. I just figure most folks (myself included) will get away with whatever they can, at times just to prove they can do it, if for no other reason. Eh.
This is exciting - Scientists have been studying the Hawaiian bobtail squid which aims a beam down from its belly as a searchlight when looking for food. Is that really a picture of the squid with that article though? A longer account of the same story is Scientists Discover Luminous Squid. 'Luminous squid', I must remember to use that as a term of endearment sometime.
Works in progress:
- The Myth of the Necronomicon. I wonder if someone has tried collecting all the junky books that are allegedly the Necromicon? There have to have been at least... two.
- Major Bigfoot Expedition Seeking Participation From Corporate Sponsors and Journalists. God bless Bigfoot.
- War of Ideas, Part 1 by Thomas L. Friedman. 'With the Islamist militant groups, we face people who hate us more than they love life. When you have large numbers of people ready to commit suicide, and ready to do it by making themselves into human bombs, using the most normal instruments of daily life — an airplane, a car, a garage door opener, a cellphone, fertilizer, a tennis shoe — you create a weapon that is undeterrable, undetectable and inexhaustible. This poses a much more serious threat than the Soviet Red Army because these human bombs attack the most essential element of an open society: trust.' Cheery.
Marginal Revolution featured some discussion recently on 'Cads vs. Dads', that includes the observation from one of their readers, "Why is a Cad a Cad? I think it is because: He can be." I've thought this for some time now, but never dressed the idea up with gene competition theories or the like. I just figure most folks (myself included) will get away with whatever they can, at times just to prove they can do it, if for no other reason. Eh.
