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Archive for the ‘Asides’ Category

The mufti, the meat and the cat

2006.10.26.

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BBC: Outrage in Australia against the “most senior Muslim cleric” [mufti]. He said that some women are attracting sexual assault by the way they dress. Listen this: “If you take out uncovered meat and place it outside… and the cats come and eat it… whose fault is it, the …

Computer cursor moved through thought

2006.07.29.

Reuters: A paralyzed man using a new brain sensor has been able to move a computer cursor, open e-mail and control a robotic device simply by thinking about doing it, a team of scientists said on Wednesday.
… scary for the future when everyone’s brain will be hooked up to …

Manitoba Blogs

2006.04.24.

New! I was browsing and searching the other day and discovered a nice little list of Manitoba bloggers:
http://manitobablogs.blogspot.com/. It’s not a huge list, but I assume not all the MB bloggers know about it. I had no idea about its existence until a few days …

Blog banned during elections in Singapore

2006.04.22.

The current government, the People’s Action Party (PAP) has explicitly banned all websites, blogs, and podcasts from political discussion until the conclusion of the elections.[..]

Feel like complaining about your rights? Try blogging in Singapore…

Tolerance

2006.03.28.

I always used to say the most intolerant mindset in the Western world is the liberal secularism that likes to pretend to be the great defender of tolerance. They are very tolerant… if you are one them. Otherwise all you deserve - according to them - is a big …

Politically incorrect…

2006.03.17.

All European Life Died In Auschwitz” - a surprisingly honest article. The original is from a Spanish newspaper, I’ll have to hunt for it. But until you learn Spanish, just read this translation. Yes, I know, the PC-police would never allow it to appear in Canada. One more reason …

The lettuce and your head

2006.03.09.

In an interview on Primetime I heard an expert saying: it’s more difficult to ship a lettuce across (American) state borders than to ship a dead body’s head…

Is email destroying the history?

2005.12.22.

If all our correspondence and communication happens in the cyber space - what will be in the “paper archives” for the historians of the coming centuries? Interesting question.

$$$ and history

2005.11.25.

Norms and values (as well as the laws reflecting them) change through time. Whether it was right or wrong from today’s point of view - doesn’t matter: it’s called history. There isn’t enough money to change the history…
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