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Monthly Archives: March 2006

Portraits of female Israeli Army draftees


Game over for the first world?

“The plain truth is, if anything happens to upset the current management and allocation system of the the global oil markets, the industrial economies of the world will collapse, and America’s will collapse hardest and worst because of the way we have arranged things for ourselves. The global oil markets currently revolve around Middle East [...]

Paris also paying the price for mass immigration

From the BBC
As darkness fell at the Place de La Republique, the acrid smell of tear gas drifted through the early evening air.
It mingled with a distinct smell of cannabis as the shouts and jeers of the crowd echoed around this historic square in what has become a Paris springtime of discontent.
These, though, [...]

Bridgehead Politics

Anti-Mass Immigration activists have been warning about this for years.
Latinos have formed a bridgehead in the United States and are now actively attacking anti-immigration efforts.
Spanish language media apparently orchestrated the recent nationwide “spontaneous” protests against Congressional plans to introduce more anti-immigration legislation.
Of course, students took the protests as an opportunity to bunk off, [...]

links for 2006-03-28

Five Ways to Love a Cockroach, by Alexander Danner and Neal Von Flue
Excellent online comic story.
(tags: flash comic story)

Workplace abuse trickles down - Cogweb
(tags: psychology psychiatry business neuroscience mind)

Concrete Island

“The stated subject of this year’s biennale is “the meta-city, an agglomeration that extends beyond the traditional form and concept of the city.”
I’m not entirely sure what I’m supposed to be looking at up there - but I like what I want to see in that image, which is either a reclaimed assemblage of highway [...]

links for 2006-03-27

The one and only “Memory usage” thread & FQA - MozillaZine Forums
For Firefox users, this is the last word on memory issues
(tags: internet firefox hacks tips)

Erowid Nootropic (Smart Drugs) Vaults
(tags: reference drugs smart_drugs vitamins nootropic health mind)

Special Reports: 10 Emerging Technologies
10 emerging technologies that will have a massive impact on our lives.
(tags: science future trends [...]

links for 2006-03-24

Warning to chatroom users after libel award for man labelled a Nazi
£10,000 award for man libelled in an online forum.
(tags: politics internet law civil_liberties)

Shed No Tears for Milosevic by Christopher Hitchens
Brilliant article on Slobo and his legacy
(tags: politics history warfare war Serbia Bosnia)

New US Navy stealth “Bat-Boat”

Read about it here.

Serbia After Milosevic

From Stratfor.com comes an intriguing theory that Milosevic’s death is a boon to the new liberal Serbia.