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We are going to spend a few days in Spain – normal service will resume after we return … (And by the way, this posting was published at 23:00 hrs on the 29th May. But, the neat thing is with WordPress, it doesn’t appear until the time in the timestamp for the posting (05:30 . . . → Read More: Taking a few days off… The European Commission formally agreed yesterday to provide the Department of Homeland Security and officials from the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection in the USA with data on airline crew and passengers flying from Europe to destinations in the USA. This was against the wishes of the European Parliament, which voted three times . . . → Read More: EU agrees to provide APIS data to USA I can’t help feeling there is some truth in the critisism, that the Americans have too few forces on the ground in Iraq, when I read that looters are driving off with complete office complexes. The buildings, not the contents. Philip G. Zimbardo ran an experiment in 1971 in Stanford University which predicts the behaviour found in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Originally intended to be run over two weeks, with two groups of randomly selected, healthy, normal students playing the roles of prisoners and guards, the experiment had to be stopped . . . → Read More: The Stanford Prison Experiment Visit The Museum of Coat Hangers – the earliest ones date back to about 2000 BC. (via Coudal Partners – Museum of online Museums) Update (2008-05-20): Unfortunately the website linked to has vanished. You can find snap shots of the website at the way back machine, for example here. According to Paul Campos, author of The Obesity Myth, writing in New Scientist (free 7-day subscription neccessary to access), a couple of weeks ago, the war on obesity is based not on sound science but on medical self-interest and cultural hysteria. Here a quote from his article: From records of nearly 2 million Norwegians . . . → Read More: Is being overweight unhealthy? Only nuclear power can stop global warming a leading environmentalist, James Lovelock says. His call to support nuclear power was rejected yesterday by both Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth. Lovelock believes that global warming is occuring at such a pace that there is now no time left to develop alternative power sources commercially, . . . → Read More: Global warming – more advanced than we knew Video film of the wedding the American military denied had taken place has emerged. And Susan Sontag comments on the brutalisation of society in America, which results in neither Bush’s administration (e.g. James Inhofe, Republican member from Oklahoma: “more outraged by the outrage” over what the photographs show) nor a portion of the . . . → Read More: How embarassing Israeli justice minister, Yosef Lapid, a Holocaust survivor, got into hot water from Ariel Sharon after commenting on recent TV footage of the Iraeli demolitions in Palestine. Over 40 Palestinians have been killed in the Rafah refugee camp, where dozens of homes have been demolished in less than a week. Referring to the TV . . . → Read More: Some Israelis are reminded of WW2 The Bahn (German Railways) has repainted the underpass at Oberursel station (the station I park and ride from, when I travel to work) at least 6 times in the last two years. Every time, graffiti re-appeared the day after the work was finished, and within a week or two, you would not know . . . → Read More: An end to vandalism |
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