Thursday, August 26, 2004
Hepatitis ridden nut mother accuses father of abusing his daughters and Department of Child Safety attempt to abduct the children. The children, who love their dad and cannot stand their mother, go on the run… MORE
Thursday, August 26, 2004
The BBC has a superb series called Trade Secrets where various professionals revealed little trade secrets that people might find useful.
The series was followed by a popular book of the same name.
What brought this all to mind was a hugely popular US article currently riding high on blag rankings and popularity indexes named…and about…you [...]
Thursday, August 26, 2004
Go and see it. Simple as that. The film is superb.
Thursday, August 26, 2004
“Rumours that the Internet would witness a sustained and devastating cyber-attack by Islamic “cyber-terrorists” today have turned out to be completely baseless.” MORE
This is in keeping with the Islamist tradition of screaming or otherwise promising near-poetic horrors to be inflicted upon infidels, Jews or invaders only to actually DO absolutely NOTHING.
In short: “Considerable evidence suggests that if we use an increase in our incomes, as many of us do, simply to buy bigger houses and more expensive cars, then we do not end up any happier than before. But if we use an increase in our incomes to buy more of certain inconspicuous goods — [...]
O’Reilly publish the world famous IT guidebooks and the superb Hacks series (e.g. Amazon Hacks & Google Hacks). Now apparently they are joining the Neuroscience bandwagon with a new book in the hacks series: Brain Hacks. From Tom Stafford, one of the co-authors:
I’m writing a book, with my friend Matt, for O’Reilly, codenamed ‘Brain Hacks’ [...]
Mexican ‘drugs legend’ arrested
A man claimed to be responsible for smuggling half the cocaine that reaches the US from Mexico has been arrested.
Gilberto Higuera Guerrero had a $2m (£1.1m) price on his head.
According to Mexico’s Attorney General Rafael Macedo de la Concha, Mr Higuera Guerrero was “a legend” in the drugs trafficking world. [...]
South Africa win Tri-Nations
“Voters look to their neighbours to determine their decision. John Allen Paulos explains why a few swing states of borderline electors will settle the US presidency”
In recent years the US electorate has become highly polarised. Large contiguous regions of the country (the red states) favour the Republicans, other large contiguous regions favour the Democrats (the [...]
I thought I had lost this article. I posted about Maté last year, but I had forgotten his name and could not find it again. It is wroth revisiting especially as I want to link Maté’s thesis with Howard Bloom’s very similar comments in the Global Brain.
Dr. Gabor Maté has lived several lives in one. [...]