We Are Here…
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Japanese is an interesting language…
| by in History |
So I ordered that game recently and in preperation, having downloaded some translated scans from the internet, my curiosity for the Japanese language has been stirred..
A dog is never to old to learn new tricks so, heck, why not try to learn some bits of a new language in my 32th year on this planet. [...]
The C64 rocked!
| by in Computers & Hardware, History |
Retro, Commodore 64
The Inuit and Christianity
I was watching a TV recording last night, in it they showed an old news-reel of Inuit celebrating Easter. I was immediately like “WTF” — Christian beliefs, way over there? I couldn’t believe it. Because I wouldn’t think Christians would’ve their balls frozen off trying to convert those folks. And second, because I would’ve thought [...]
Quote Of The Week #42
| by in History, Quote Of The Week |
William of Occam, the English philosopher known for stating that, if you have multiple theories explaining a phenomenon the simplest solution with the least assumptions has to be the best one. It was only in 1852 that a Sir William Rowan Hamilton first used the term Occam’s Razor to refer to this principle.
The original line [...]
White-supremacist butt-fuckers messing wit’ MLK…
I just love this initiative to Googlebomb a white-supremacist website (found it while connecting*the*dots).
The content of the site really is sickening and vile. Of course, such a site should be taken down, but denial of service attacks are childish. And, everybody has a right to express themselves, even a white supremacist.
But… this isn’t expression… [...]
The lie detector and Wonder Woman…
| by in History, Interesting Links |
I learned some interesting facts this morning. Through this post on Slashdot I ended up on this page, on the release of the guys’ FBI files.
I didn’t know the creator of the first ‘lie detector’ and Wonder Woman were one and the same guy. And that, in 1938, William Moulton Marston once did some tests [...]
Loose Change 2nd Edition to be aired on public Dutch TV
| by in Conspiracies, Freedom & Repression, History |
So I was waking up this morning, when some morning TV programme my girlfriend was watching, was discussing something that I heard of earlier, the initiative ditkannietwaarzijn.nl (tr. this can’t be true) to get more attention to the lies and deceit that we have come to know as 9/11.
Well, anyways, the most important thing that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
Engineering students to investigate whether the US gov’t themselves blew up the WTC
According to this article (Dutch), eight students of the TU Delft (Technical University in Delft) are going to investigate whether the US government blew up the World Trade Center in the 9/11 attacks.
Simply because the official answers to all the questions don’t seem to hold water. It has to be noted that the research shall [...]
What the ….. ?!
Someone pointed me to something which, if that shit is for real, would make Marc Dutroux look like Gandhi.
I’m drinking some sage-tea at the moment…
| by in Animals & Nature, Health, History |
I am an alternative medicine nut. Well, actually I just distrust commercial pharmaceutical industry — but nowadays it seems one must either with or against something and I think I can only make myself worthy of happiness if I place myself in this position.
My girlfriend is basically with me on this and she has got [...]
Rice: Nuclear deal with India made under special circumstances
So, sell-out and betray-the-people Rice states that the ‘nuclear deal with India made under special circumstances‘.
Aha — that must be the same ’special’ circumstances under which, back in the day — when the export of 128bit encryption was still prohibited — the US allowed India to buy this ‘illegal’ encryption technology (if I remember correctly, [...]
Growing ‘rabbit-food’…
| by in Animals & Nature, History |
A couple of weeks ago I was giving one of our rabbits some food, rabbit pellets. These usually consist of different types of grass-seeds and pellets made of dried grasses. Not that interesting at all I know.
But there is this other thing in the rabbit pellet mix that I couldn’t put my finger on [...]
The Greensboro Massacre
Today, Sean Coon’s Lyricist Wednesday-post featured an OMD song, called ‘88 seconds in Greensboro‘, referring to the Greensboro Massacre. I had nothing better to do, so today I got my ignorant ass to actually read up on the story and check the Greensboro’s Child documentary trailer and excerpt.
Before today, I didn’t know anything about [...]
Interesting point regarding Flight 77…
I just finished reading this Alex Jones’ article and read this possible scenario, which could possibly be true:
The fact that they have again chosen to release grainy and foggy images which only lead to more speculation tell us two things.
1) The government truly is frightened to death of releasing any images which accurately depict what [...]
Chernobyl: 20 years later…
| by in Animals & Nature, Health, History, Space & Beyond |
BBC NEWS reported yesterday about wildlife defying the radiation still there after the disaster with the, now infamous, Chernobyl nuclear facility in ‘86.
“Animals don’t seem to sense radiation and will occupy an area regardless of the radiation condition,” says radioecologist Sergey Gaschak.
“A lot of birds are nesting inside the sarcophagus,” he adds, referring to the [...]
The curious origin of Mah Na Mah Na…
| by in Arts & Poetry, History, Humour, Interesting Links, Music |
You might already know this, but I only just found out today that the Muppets famous Mah Na Mah Na-song is actually a cover — a cover of a same-named 1969 song by Piero Umiliani. (Check here for more information about the composer.)
Now, of course, that alone isn’t all that interesting, but did you know [...]
1001inventions.com
| by in History, Interesting Links |
Slashdot reports of a website detailing 1001 Islamic inventions.
The OP finds the list quite surprising whereas I don’t: I already was aware of the fact that a lot of our current civilisation and intellect come from the Middle-East.
Then again, I bet a lot of people didn’t know this, so in that respect, it’s a [...]
So AIDS is man made after all…
| by in Conspiracies, Health, History, Interesting Links |
Reading around in the Guerrillafunk Though Box archive I was rather amazed by the article entitled “AIDS man made origins”. (There’s a lot of other juicy stuff there but for now we’ll focus on this.)
I heard this theory before that the US might have been behind it, but any substantial references were always lacking. (And [...]
Harvey the Herder
| by in Animals & Nature, Bunnies, History, Humour, Interesting Links |
I today discovered this story about a rabbit called Harvey the Herder. Check out the link to find out why.
Rabbits, Animals
On Nostradamus…
Last night, there was this silly TV quiz on which asked a question on Nostradamus — which actually contained mis-information.
The question they asked was `Who predicted the 9/11 attacks on New York & World War II?‘
Funny thing is: the thing about 9/11 is totally wrong:
Anyway, quibbling over words is futile, given that Nostradamus didn’t even [...]
The Dogon Culture — how intriguing….
A friend of mine sent me this link going into the Theory of Creation of the Dogon culture.
The first Western scientists to visit and study the Dogon people were French anthropologists Drs Marcel Griaule and Germaine Dieterlen, who initially made contact with them in 1931, and continued to research them for the next three decades, [...]
Jesus The Anointed One
From EbaumsWorld I visited this page going into the possible usage of Marijuana by Jesus Christ. I have read articles like ‘Jesus was a pothead‘ and similar before, but it’s always nice to read about facts that the ‘believers’ will always try to disregard as bullshit.
Some noteworthy quotes:
The ancient recipe for this anointing oil, recorded [...]
