Category Archives: Politics and Society

Hex String of Evil

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.hexstringofevil.com/ 09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0

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Scottish Parliament election, 2007 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Stumbleupon Review of : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Parliament_election,_2007 Is this the end for Labour in Scotland? We can hope 😀

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Comment is free: Wanted: an Erich Fromm party

Stumbleupon Review of : http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/neil_clark/2007/02/wanted_an_erich_fromm_party.html From the page: “”A healthy economy is only possible at the expense of unhealthy human beings”.”

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BBC – Radio 4 – News – In Business 19 January 2006

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness_20060119.shtml From the page: “Down with Hierarchies In tonight’s In Business, Peter Day talks to a revolutionary thinker in the world of British management along with some world wide luminaries in the working world about why … Continue reading

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Utilitarian bunny slippers.

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.sock-monkey.com/pi.html The Following Number Is Not Pi 588 Click here for another number that is not pi.

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AlterNet: Creation “Science” Is the Christian Rights Trojan Horse Against R

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.alternet.org/story/49811/ “Before they seize power and establish a world according to their doctrines, totalitarian movements conjure up a lying world of consistency which is more adequate to the needs of the human mind than reality itself; … Continue reading

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AlterNet: EnviroHealth: Why Having More No Longer Makes Us Happy

Stumbleupon Review of : http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/49593/ Excerpt: “Because traditional economists think of human beings primarily as individuals and not as members of a community, they miss out on a major part of the satisfaction index. Economists lay it out almost as … Continue reading

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The Early Days of a Better Nation

Stumbleupon Review of : http://kenmacleod.blogspot.com/2007/01/lone-and-level-sands.html The lone and level sands In 2002 I was in Cracow as a guest of the Polish national SF convention, who had put me up in a newly-opened hotel in the Old Jewish Quarter. The … Continue reading

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Society of the Spectacle (La Société du spectacle)

Stumbleupon Review of : http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=2k5z8pjw9u The 1973 film by French Situationist Guy Debord, based on the 1967 book of the same title, shows the dominating oppression of modernization … all » of both the private and public spheres of everyday … Continue reading

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Rescue two hundred horses the Netherlands Nov. 2006

Stumbleupon Review of : http://video.stumbleupon.com/#p=stq447h53g 200 Horses trapped on a tiny island, by flooding in the Netherlands.

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