Monthly Archives: May 2008

Note: I have dusted off an old, unpublished review here as an introduction to a series of speculations on the Singularity, the Great Silence and the Great Filters. By now everybody who is going to has seen the Matrix trilogy, … Continue reading →

On the myth of the $640 toilet seat, see Fred, certainly no friend of “militarization” here: http://www.fredoneverything.net/FOE_Frame_Column.htm

In John McCaslin’s column I found an account of Hollywood celebrities found to have donated to McCain: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnMcCaslin/2008/05/22/allys_birthday Among those opening checkbooks for Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign, according to Federal Election Commission filings, are Wilford Brimley, the mustached actor … Continue reading →

You should never underestimate the Austrians. After all, they convinced the world that Mozart was an Austrian and Hitler was a German.– European saying I received this comment under the previous post. This is from an Austrian woman, a professional … Continue reading →

Hey, something I said here a while back, has been noticed by Edward Luttwak in the New York Times of all places> Look here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/12/opinion/12luttwak.html?_r=2&ref=opinion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin Luttwak (author of the how-to manual ‘Coup d’etat’) points out how the Muslim world will … Continue reading →