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Monthly Archives: November 2006

Britain’s looming insurgency

A brilliant post from Westhawk analyses a recent speech by the Director General of MI5.
Westhawk: Britain’s looming insurgency
Last week, the world’s media focused its attention on the mid-term election in the United States and the return of the Democratic Party to power in America’s legislature. However, history may record the more important news occurring [...]

links for 2006-11-20

What a Welcome Home | B92 blog
Smoking thugs on a plane to returned to London from Belgrade have their collars feLt by Her Majesties finest .
(tags: commented Serbia belgrade aircraft crime)

I never finish anyth

ThinkGeek :: I Never Finish Anyth T-shirt for those with Project Termination Syndrome.

links for 2006-11-19

Leading Russian critic of Putin’s regime is poisoned in London
Getting back to Soviet levels of nastiness from the Russians.
(tags: politics Russia espionage intelligence crime)

Friedman is dead, monetarism is dead, but what about inflation?
“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon, in the sense that it cannot occur without a more rapid increase in the quantity [...]

Amazing Soviet buildings

From  English Russia come these wonderful images of Soviet architecture.
Palace of Marriage, Tblisi, Georgia (built 70’s)
 Hotel ‚ÄúFriendship‚Äù, Ukraine
“State Department for Traffic”, Tblisi, Georgia (built 1975)
“Palace of Soviets” built in Kaliningrad city, Russia in 1975
Technological Institute in Minsk, Belarus (built 1981)

Stop Press Horses Smash Sills - Images from Sarchi

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[NOTE: The photographer is trying to find out what this means. If you know please comment at his blog here]

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Adolescents, risks and the pitfalls of rationality

From EurekAlert:
Is it a good idea to swim with sharks? Is it smart to drink a bottle of Drano? What about setting your hair on fire — is that a good thing to do?
People of all ages are able to give the correct answer (it’s “no,” in case you were wondering) to each of these [...]

links for 2006-11-17

super OS X menubar items
Wonderful set of menubar items for OSX. These are little programs that sit in the menu bar and allow us to have controls or information easily to hand.
(tags: osx mac productivity software apple lists tools)

Single mothers to be offered paedophile check on partners | Report says people should also have right [...]

links for 2006-11-16

PsyBlog: Psychology Blog: Emotional Truth: The Search Starts Here
Emotions are not forces that take us over. Neither are they forces that build up as explode. They are choices - strategies - over which we have a very high degree of control.
(tags: psychology science philosophy mind emotions emotion)

Dance, White Boy, Dance
Genuinely hilarious vidoe of a guy [...]

Borat uses a Serbian song in his film

“Few times during the Borat movie you can hear a great song Ederlezi by Goran Bregovic. It was first used in a movie Dom za vesanje (Time of the Gypsies), directed by Emir Kusturica.”
(From Nudography (NSFW))