I've been really impressed by this album from Katatonia - particularly a track called "My Twin".
Get it somewhere. You're looking for album cover that looks like this :D
It's as "listenable" as the legendary Tool album - Lateralus (big call), or A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step etc.
Same kind of adrenaline inducing rawness :)
Go and watch The Century of the Self (documentary by Adam Curtis shown on BBC Four).
Brilliant overview of the different techniques employed to control the masses and shape the idea of "democracy" that the US seems so intent on exporting.
The Century of the Self Episode 1 2 3 4
N.B. This is approx 4 hours of documentary :)
Saddam Hussein (1937-2006)
From an article on the International Herald Tribune:
A trial on the far more sweeping charges that he directed the killing of 50,000 Kurds in an organized ethnic-cleansing campaign is still under way and will continue despite Hussein's execution.and
Iraqi officials said the execution would be filmed, both for the historical record and as proof for those who may doubt the word of both the Americans and Iraqis.
The US-based rights group Human Rights Watch condemned the hanging, saying history would judge his trial and execution harshly.
Richard Dicker, a Human Rights Watch director, said: "Saddam Hussein was responsible for horrific, widespread human rights violations, but those acts, however brutal, cannot justify his execution, a cruel and inhuman punishment.
41 emails and 2 days to delete one file and move a redirect page through 4 environments.
That's when you know you're dealing with process overkill at work. I've never in my entire life had to deal with so much bullshit to delete a file off a freaking test environment. Why the hell a company would pay tens of thousands of dollars for software which can do this for you out of the box with full transactional deployments and audit trails, and not use it is beyond me.
I'm laughing about it as I type this in fact. A squeaky, desperate slightly maniacal little laugh.
everyone needs bringing back down to earth
every now
and
again.
Why does everyone think I'm a genius?
Read The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. It's a brilliant and enlightening read.
Quotes to come in later posts.
Why won't God heal amputees?
Dinner conversation:
Mary: "I believe in God. I've believed in him since I was 7"
You: "Yeah? I want to because there's reams of hot ass at Hillsong but he doesn't heal amputees"
Mary: "Huh?"
You: "If he regenerated legs he'd get my vote."
Mary: "You're sick"
You: "Hey, I don't claim to be able to regenerate legs."
And so on.
Fucking ridiculous.
Scott is Jeff Daniels in the Squid and the Whale. Only he's studying philosophy and not a PhD in literature (yet).
