August 2006
Monthly Archive
Terror!
Posted on Aug 11 2006 | Tagged as: Politics, The Stupid, Media, Religion, Film
From the Guardian’s report on the Muslim community’s reaction to this foiled terrorist plot:
“The youngsters are trying to laugh it off. Another said that we all know the human body is 75% liquid.”
What’s the name of that film where someone feeds a load of guys some explosives and they all explode? Pierce Brosnan was in […]
A sensible opinion
Posted on Aug 05 2006 | Tagged as: Politics, Work, Media, Religion
In researching a(nother) possible, potential article on those cartoons, I came across this map, colour-coded by country as more blue = more publications and more red = more protests/violence. Make of it what you will. (I am.)
It was created by Tariq Abbas Jordan Turner, an American convert to Islam. Curious to know his opinion of […]
Look
Posted on Aug 05 2006 | Tagged as: Yours truly, Technology
This:
is not real.
It had me fooled, briefly.
It was created using POV-Ray software, a program that was originally open-source, created by amateur programmers, on an Amiga machine, and then ported to the PC. It’s an example of something I mentioned on the old blog: high-end computers being responsible for some lazy programming, with developers over-relying on hardware. The fact that […]
A prediction
Posted on Aug 01 2006 | Tagged as: The Stupid, Media
This will fold within about three seconds.