Not having anything to hide; rather fearing other peoples interpretation of the facts…
 by in Computers & Hardware, Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Security & Privacy, Software, Visions |
The title of this post has always been my biggest fear about Big Brother watching everybody’s move, registering everything they buy, et cetera.
See, I really have nothing to hide. I fear that ‘The Man’ only wrongly interprets the information and I get Red Flagged for nothing.
People always thought I was kidding when I said that, [...]
Ordered a new system for my MythTV set-up
| by in Computers & Hardware, General |
I recently ordered a new system to upgrade my MythTV setup. Currently, the back-end (i.e. the machine doing all the recording) is an IBM 300GL. Yeah it’s almost antique, I know, but it works. The drawback is that the hard-drive it records on, is actually an NFS mounted drive that physically resides in another system.
The [...]
Quote Of The Week #24
| by in Quote Of The Week |
While reading this crazy story, I noticed the following signature which I find, well, thought-provoking. Apparently the quote, originally, is from some guy called Stephen Roberts:
“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will [...]
Plane returns to Schiphol…..
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, Media, Religion & Politics, Random Rantings, The Netherlands |
….and none of the arrested people have been taken into custody because of ‘terrorism’.
Now that comes as a surprise… </sarcasm>
FUD, War On Truth, Terror, Fear, Netherlands
T minus 7 days and counting…
| by in General, The Netherlands |
Yeh well, as I said earlier this month, a certain Monday would be an interesting one. Never gotten around to an actual update on that, but, well, now I am.
Anyways, that particular Monday on the 24th of July was the day I gave my current employer my notice.
I quit that job because, well, I [...]
Genetic class-system
So I was reading this blurb on Slashdot on a genetically modified mouse lacking a certain gene that is responsible for the feelings of ‘depression’ when suddenly this hit me:
In the future, not only will there be a divide in classes, i.e. an economic divide, but it will be genetic as well.
So, the ‘general public’, [...]
Quote Of The Week #23
| by in Arts & Poetry, Music, Quote Of The Week |
I was listening to Paris the other day, namely the song `The devil made me do it‘, when I heard the line that has inspired me for years now (actually, every time I hear these words they give me the goose-bumps).
Ya can’t be intrigued by the leads a pig lead
Unless you don’t give a fuck [...]
Defining ‘to google’…
| by in Humour, Random Rantings |
to google (/ˈguËgÉ™l/): To constantly nag about ones trademark being used in the wrong context.
Example usage
“If Bayer googled then we wouldn’t use the word ‘Aspirin’ for generic pain-killers.”.
Definitions, Humour
Studying Latin..
| by in General, History, Interesting Links |
“Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur”
Over the recent years I’m having this increasing interest in history and the evolution of human knowledge, so to speak. The ancient Greek philosophers of course and stuff like etymology for instance quite interest me. It’s funny to see how words have evolved in different languages, coming from the same [...]
Analysis: Murder in the skies…
The Register runs a nice article analysis on the ‘foiled’ plane-bomb plan:
We’re told that the suspects were planning to use TATP, or triacetone triperoxide, a high explosive that supposedly can be made from common household chemicals unlikely to be caught by airport screeners. A little hair dye, drain cleaner, and paint thinner - all easily [...]
Sentiment…
| by in History, Interesting Links, Music |
When I was young I had this remix tape with Electro music on it. Lately, I tried searching for a couple of the songs on that tape. That once pointed me to this remix with a lot of old-school electro songs in it. (Incidentally, you might find the N.W.A. track Panic Zone quite funny to [...]
Firefox crop circle
| by in Interesting Links |
I just discovered this gallery of a Linux User Group creating crop-circles of the Firefox logo:
Pretty neat trick.
Firefox, Linux, Crop Circles
Quote Of The Week #22
For this 22nd Quote Of The Week, we’ll focus on Emiliano Zapata, who once said (or rather, wrote, in a letter to Pancho Villa):
Ignorance and obscurantism have never produced anything other than flocks of slaves for tyranny.
Quote Of The Week, QOTW
OMFG this is amazing
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, Interesting Links |
Yesterday I discovered these two posts on CuteOverload: a real life Bambi and Thumper.
Amazing…
Animals, Bambi, Thumper, Rabbits, Deer
Criminal hackers…
| by in General |
Last week I was watching some quiz on Belgian TV and I noticed that, for once, they were actually using the correct term to describe a criminal hacker, i.e. a cracker:
If you use MythTV to filter out the crap, television might even be worth watching…
I thought that was cool, because many of us dislike the [...]
In a true ‘Free World’…
…one would not, and should not, be prevented to take your own life. Apparently — ‘the law‘ decides that you may not do that.
Of course they don’t want you to do that because the State will loose money: the national income will be lower in the future if a few people would take their own [...]
Homeland Security Scare System
Reading all the stuff about the recent ‘foiled’ terrorist attack, I GIMP’d together this thingy. I present to you, the Homeland Security Scare System:
It should be obvious when what level should apply.
Humour, Homeland Security, War On Truth, Propaganda, Fear
Aircraft bomb plot thwarted in Britain..
NY Times reports that a bomb plot has been thwarted, a plot which would create “mass murder on an unimaginable scale”.
Now that’s a hilarious thing to say. How the hell does the press decide what I can’t imagine? I see all the destruction, read stories about the millions of millions of deaths by the hands [...]
A first for everything: I passed out
| by in Health, The Netherlands |
Last week I was minding my own business sleeping, only to wake up with a slight irritation in my eye. I vaguely remember trying to get something out of my eye and possibly scratching my eye-ball with my finger-nail. (At least — that’s what I think as I was still a bit drousy.)
I didn’t give [...]
Dutch population-growth is slow this year
The Central Bureau of Statistics (Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek, CBS) reports that the Dutch population has barely grown: the last 6 months there was a mere increase of only 2.000 people, as opposed to 7.000 people in the same period, in the previous year.
Interestingly, the second quarter of 2006 only seen a decrease of [...]
