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Monthly Archives: November 2005

Christopher Hitchens: Anti-War, My Foot

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

‘The group self-lovingly calling itself “United for Peace and Justice” is by no means “narrow” in its “antiwar focus” but rather represents a very extended alliance between the Old and the New Left, some of it honorable and some of it redolent of the World Youth Congresses that used to bring credulous priests and fellow-traveling [...]

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What Kurds?

Tuesday, November 29, 2005

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‘They are entitled to nothing’ : It’s time to be honest about doing terrible things

Monday, November 28, 2005

From Armavirumque:

Here’s the choice: easy pontification that gives you the nice, warm glow of belonging to the morally virtuous vs. making difficult choices that actually benefit people. Which do you choose? On the issue of torture, John McCain and eighty-nine US Senators join Jimmy Carter in choosing frothy pontification. How nice to say that [...]

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Add crackles to your digital mixes

Monday, November 28, 2005

Vinyl 1.7 is a plug-in developed by iZotope that transforms the music data input deteriorating them trough a series of algorithms that reproduce the listening faults of vinyl, as if the audio was a record being played on a record player.

Software free to download.
 

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Brains built for sex seeking

Monday, November 28, 2005

Brains are broadly wired for reproduction
Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have discovered a vast network of neurons in the brain of mice that governs reproduction and controls the effects of reproductive status on other brain functions. In their studies, the researchers found neural circuits that coordinate a complex interplay between neurons that control reproduction [...]

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Oil Shock ands the Long Emergency

Thursday, November 24, 2005

Currently readung a superb book called The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler. It is an extremely well written and cogent exploration of the horrible fate awating humanity in the 21st century becuase of the covergent threats of oil depletion, climate change, resurgent diseases, water scarcity, global economic instability and clash of civilisations.
One [...]

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Yugoslavia’s Strange Love Affair with Mexico

Tuesday, November 22, 2005

From Netsurf Digest:
At the end of the 1940s, Yugoslavia’s relationship with the Soviet Union was so strained that it nearly erupted into outright hostilities. Yugoslavians turned their backs on Soviet movies and music and looked elsewhere for entertainment. They found it in the most unlikely of sources. Mexican movies, with their revolutionary themes and ideals, [...]

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Time Magazine’s all time 100 best novels

Thursday, November 17, 2005

The Complete List is here

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Celebrities detouched

Thursday, November 17, 2005

Via The Superficial:

“The fine folks at Worth1000 have run another Photoshop contest to remove the retouching from airbrushed celebs. ”
The competition is here

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Women’s flu

Thursday, November 17, 2005

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