2007 February

Oh My God, Please Stop This Fucking War Ty and Renee Ziegel’s Wedding Ty and Renee before Ty’s accident. via Kottke

There are currently 34,000 news articles in Google News warning of Global Warming, but Matt Drudge has found the one that doesn’t. “Climatologist Calls Global Warming Fears ‘Greatest Deception in the History of Science’…” That’s all fair enough, except that the article doesn’t seem to warrant the front page of one of the most widely read news sources in the US. It is written by Tim Ball, a former Geography professor who works for an anti-global warming consultancy that refuses to deny that it is funded by energy companies. I have no problem with people denying Global Warming – I don’t believe in censorship and think that freedom of speech gives a greater chance of the truth. However, Tim Ball does believe in censorship, or he would reveal the source of his backers. My main problem, however, is Drudge, who through ultra selective reporting also believes in censorship. Reporters in…

The Boston Tee-Hee Party The Mooninite bombscare gets more and more surreal by the minute. It’s rather like someone had decided that traffic lights look like bombs, in the manner that one of Oliver Sacks patients famously mistook his wife for a hat, but because bombs are more serious than hats we have to take it all seriously. Yes all bomb scares have to be taken seriously, but everything does not seriously constitute a bomb scare, or we would have no resourses to deal with bomb scares. Mad people are always warning about bombs and the end of the world and imaginary demons, part of the role of authorities is to filter out mad people that think everything is suspicious. Things that do not constitute suspicious devices, include traffic lights, lamp posts, blinking movie signs and the same blinking street art that has been in NYC for more than a…