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27 December 2006
Finding ourselves in a brown spot.
By John Robb, two interesting articles about Peak Oil – the Washington Post reports a serious decline in Iran’s oil revenue, and earlier there was an announcement that the world’s second largest oil field – the Burgan in Kuwait – has already peaked. Interesting is that the article in the Washington Post doesn’t state if [...]
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15 December 2006
Warfare part II – the campaign continues
Now, if anybody read the last post, you know that I’ve been having a wee fight with Bus Eireann after having had a particularly bad experience another day. After having received a reply – of sorts – from a mr. O’Shea, I decided it was time to continue with a letter that was somewhat more [...]
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13 December 2006
Warfare
I’ve been having, let’s say, ‘issues’ with Bus Eireann lately. After one particularly infuriating evening of rain and wind, during which I spent an hour and a half outdoors due to their almost comical ineptitude, I decided to do something I very rarely do: write a letter of complaint. An angry letter. And I feel [...]
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10 December 2006
Space extraction of Swedes got green light
The extraction of swedes finally started last night. Shuttle launched at 1:47 Greenwich Men Time took swedish physicist Christer Fuglesang away from Earth to the orbit. According to NASA’s representative, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, this was a test flight in order to monitor how much the swedes actually resist space launches. As the extraction went better [...]
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8 December 2006
Ex-CEO of Nokia will continue for 2nd season in the Shell
The ex-CEO of Nokia, Jorma Ollila, will continue in shell for a second season. The first season of “In Shell” was a huge success, where Ollila was living in a closet only communicating to outside world via ssh. He will continue “at least for a second season” as Ollila, bit thinner than before, announced on [...]
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4 December 2006
Britain renewing it’s nuclear warheads
Great Britain announced today with the mouth of Tony Blair that they will continue the upkeep of their nuclear arsenal. Blair announced that they will replace the obsolete strategic warheads in nuclear subs with new ones. “We just cannot be sure that our brave country wouldn’t be threatened with nuclear weapons in the next decades”, [...]
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29 November 2006
The problem with abstinence, mk 2
I wrote a while back (quite a while, actually) about the problems I feel are perpetuated by the way the American establishment (a sort of sweeping term, I know…) go about their sex-ed for kids. Well, through Unspeak today I found this, showing that not only are millions of dollars going to making sure American [...]
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19 November 2006
Wartime photo footage released to the public
Censor over pictures from Winter and Continuing Wars was lifted. The wartime picture archive was till now only accessible for researchers, but to cope with the Free Access to Information -act the Defence forces released the restrictions and the pictures became part of War Archive. The reason why the pictures were “hidden” was mostly political [...]
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18 November 2006
A security guard captured using excessive force
The whole nation of Finland was shocked and surprised as “The Voice of Truth”, Helsingin Sanomat, published a video on wednesday showing a security guard using excessive force. The news of naturally came as a surprise specially to the more alternative looking youth with long hair or political outwear. The police forces published their intention [...]
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18 November 2006
Norway trying to ban cluster bombs
Norway is proclaiming a drive to ban cluster bombs. Cluster bombs, as is explained in then BBC’s news article, often do not explode on impact but the “grapes” are left in the ground to serve as land mines and tend to explode when intervened by people or animals. isn’t this the point of cluster bombs? [...]