Strangely Perfect

The Rise of Internet Porn One of the chief drivers of change in the technological arms race of the internet has been the porn industry.  Most of the ‘benefits’ that users and owners now expect e.g. interaction, user activity sensing, easy and secure anonymous on-line payments, on-line adverts and click-through promotions, on-line community spaces, forums, [...]

How Wearing a Seatbelt Prevents Nail Breakage! This woman, Lee Redmond from Salt Lake City, hasn’t cut her nails since 1979, which is either incredibly lazy or some sort of mental problem. She’s in the Guinness Book of Records for her ‘achievement’. Pat Reavy at the local newspaper, the Deserret News, must have taken grrreat [...]

Paris Cycles Freely with Loaded Questions and Answers In Buddhism, there’s a concept called the forces of negativity which is inherent to the whole universe – but especially when applied to living sentient beings like ourselves. These negative forces are extremely apparent when the Velib Cycle Scheme in Paris is considered.  We have: The initial [...]

Carmaker GM loses another $15.5bn BMW to miss its targets for 2008 GM discusses sale of Hummer brand And about time too.  The sooner they go bust, or change what they make to something that consumes less wantonly, the better for everyone on the world.  People might buy the stuff as well, which would help [...]

Introduction There’s a lot in the news about the terrible cost of road fuel. See here for example. The truth is that the whole system is shite and people, by their very actions PROVE that they can afford fuel AT ANY COST. Here’s how (from my trip experience). Yesterday I came back from Northumberland, a [...]

Well said Amanda Lightfoot at Petrol Prices Blog I subscribe to the petrol prices updates with the idea that why pay more than you have to for petrol. However, the pathetic attempt at a “vote” to pay more tax, yes or no, is just plain rabble rousing and shows that Brendan McLoughlin has mixed motives [...]