Author: andy

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I’m sorry that this blog has been rather neglected lately. I’ve not died or anything: I’m just rather busy. Normal service will be resumed soon. In the meantime, enjoy the silence.

Happy Solstice everyone!

BBC: “A child still dies of hunger every five seconds”.

Thats 17280 dead children every day. Six world trade towers every day. One every fours hours, day after day after day. Just stop what you’re doing, close your eyes and count the seconds. How did it feel when you got to five?

Now maybe go to here or here or here and make a tiny, insignificant, hopeless difference.

We are in big freaking trouble. That the earth has been shown to recover eventually is philosophically comforting, but will be of no practical help to many hundreds of human generations. (Via Slashdot) 

Heres an interesting archive of classic shows from Orson Welles’s ‘The Mercury Theatre on the Air’ radio show series, in MP3 format. It includes the notorious broadcast of ‘War of the Worlds’  (mp3) that started mass-panic in parts of the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_War_of_the_Worlds_radio_broadcast (Their server seems kind of slow, so be kind to it if you intend to download a lot of files)

Guardian:Faith against reason. George Bush is a born-again Christian, one of the 42% of Americans who describe themselves that way. Other presidents were religious, but Bush seems to have created something new – what even some of his allies call “the faith-based presidency”.

BBC: The desperate story of Grangetown.

Guardian:Faith against reason. George Bush is a born-again Christian, one of the 42% of Americans who describe themselves that way. Other presidents were religious, but Bush seems to have created something new – what even some of his allies call “the faith-based presidency”.

BBC: The desperate story of Grangetown.

Some pictures taken at Dunham Massey a couple of weeks ago

Wired: The Long Tail:

The average Barnes & Noble carries 130,000 titles. Yet more than half of Amazon’s book sales come from outside its top 130,000 titles. Consider the implication: If the Amazon statistics are any guide, the market for books that are not even sold in the average bookstore is larger than the market for those that are (see “Anatomy of the Long Tail”). In other words, the potential book market may be twice as big as it appears to be, if only we can get over the economics of scarcity. 

Now this is intriguing: Does Bush have a little speaker in his ear that tells him what to say? Since he gives every indication of being a brainless moron, I’d say that yes, the chances are pretty good that he does.