Strangely Perfect

Students die in India as bus plunges into river The above headline is awful enough for the people involved, but in reality, it’s subject, a road crash, is common enough in my own country, the UK. What is really bad is how the BBC is reporting this.  They should know better but essentially, they’ve reported [...]

The statements this week, by the UK government’s chief energy scientist, are right up my street.  See Britons creating ‘more emissions’ on the BBC. It’s obvious really. Over the last few decades our (meaning the UK and all western nations’) manufacturing industries have collapsed. Yet we can still buy stuff, more and more stuff actually. [...]

Exploring the Simultaneous Nature of Cause & Effect Star Trek: The Next Generation: Finale, Episode – “All Good Things…” I’ve just watched the double episode finale to the TNG Picard series just after the cyclists finished their ascent of Mont Ventoux in this years Tour de France.  It was “All Good Things…”(see link, link & [...]

The pope says sorry for getting it wrong over the holocaust and the nutty bishop The bankers say sorry for getting it wrong with their greedy decisions that lead to the current economic crisis Cricket captains say sorry for losing some games US car maker bosses say sorry for being crap UK Politicians say sorry [...]

What indeed? Today, we’ve had two (at least these are the ones I’ve spotted) news releases from the Department for Transport (DfT) that presage some changes in the future: Advisers urge fast action on speed limiters – FT Drivers ‘face health tests every decade’ – Guardian Now all we have to work out is, “What [...]

A recent article on coral growth has confirmed my opinions that I’ve had for years that the assumptions about the environmental degradation and collapse of coral reefs have nothing to do with global warming, sea level rises or ice ages. News Article: Coral springs back from tsunami – BBC News Background from WCS.org:  Conservation Opportunity [...]

Taj operation finally over, casualty figure very high – reports NDTV.com Justifiably, the world sighs with relief. Some are glad that the shooting has stopped. Some are glad the killers are dead. Currently, the dead number ~200, the killers, 11.  A ratio of ~9:1 killed per killer. In recent years there seem to have been [...]

It’s here on Wikileaks! Text and xls spreadsheet – it’s all here. The Wikileaks site went a bit awry earlier today and then fell over completely (as of 20081119 20:31 GMT).  There sure are a lot of people who want to know lives round the corner!   ;-) It’s back up now (20081120 20:24) Wikileaks [...]

Introduction I’ve nabbed the content of this from Ted Penfold.  My wife, has told me that she heard this lecture of Dick’s and found it and him some of the most inspiring things in her life.  I came across this wonderful piece by chance, looking for some background information on Nikko, the second guy after [...]

I’ve an idea… I’ll get a Madonna CD, then upload the tracks on-line for paid download and claim the copyright for myself. Q.  What do you think would happen? Q. Far-fetched idea? Try here for an instance of such activities: http://apps.facebook.com/ilike/artist/Crawling+Chaos/track/Arabesque?apv=1 for instance…  (If it’s changed, it used to look like the screen-dump at left.) [...]

I had to have a little titter to myself about the inanity of it all…  In the headline: Saint-Tropez déclare la guerre aux hélicoptères The locals, called Tropeziennes, are apparently getting pissed off with all the helicopter flights both from within and around the town and those purely for sight-seeing.  Of course, quite a lot [...]

Protest over Pakistan share slump, – says the BBC article this morning.  Apparently the people in Pakistan have had enough of falling share prices so have smashed up the Stock Exchange so that no-one can do deals any more! This is of course bang in line with the means of the original spread of Islam [...]

Six young people died at about 2 this morning on the A607 just south-west of Melton  Mowbray. This is where it was.  It was a bend of about 45 degrees on a 40mph double white-lined single carriageway road. Bizarrely, one of the father’s blames the police for confiscating his son’s car as he was driving [...]

I took this picture during an IT conference near Redditch a couple of weeks ago.  This has been cropped to show the true form of the Lotus Flower growing from the mud of a pond on a golf course. The Lotus is symbolic in Nichiren’s Buddhism because it represents the simultaneity of cause and effect [...]