Not sure what to make of this high art or crap. No I am not talking about Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain
Holding Israel to Account
Writes ck on February 20th, 2008
Read More: International, Israel/Palestine
I had forgotten until reading this story about two men, lawyers, I met while in America who on behalf of a Palestinian lobby group based in the States were constructing a case suing the State of Israel for injustices done to the Palestinian people. Only one of the lawyers made his name public and worked [...]
So with the new leadership election due with the PDs what should they do about their main policy platform the economy. This is what is going to make are break them. They veered off it recently going after Justice and Health and they got broke. So what they need to do.
First off they have to [...]
Never one to pass up a coy pun on a movie title there is much suggestion we’ve been romancing the wrong stone today as an archaeologist has claimed we are in fact kissing a stone only in use since 1888, the original stone presenting a health and safety risk as it involved dangling people of [...]
Now we here at Dossing Times Towers hate Verizon. By we I mean me because I really have no reason to think Simon and Tuathal would hate them especially as they, as far as I know, have never been effectively trapped in Washington City trying to call out of the city with the only phonecard [...]
Can the Free Market save the world?
Writes simon on February 19th, 2008
Read More: Politics, Science & Technology
I came across this table via Worlds fair on scienceblogs.com
From Nocera (2006) “The Future of Global Energy,” in Daedalus
So what that means basically is that we in the the world use about 13TW (terra Watts ) of electricity a year. If by 2050 the whole world has the standard of living of Poland now [...]
These opening months of 2008 have been the greatest for movies I can remember. Already the list of contenders for movie of the year is swelling. This is reflected in the calibre of movie nominated for Best Picture and so too the fact that there are a number of deserving works that have not made [...]
Ninja Tuesday: The Staten Island Ninja bandit.
Writes simon on February 19th, 2008
Read More: Ninja Tuesday
The Staten Island Ninja is a burglar in as the name suggest is a robs houses in Staten Island New York who goes around robbing houses while dressed as a ninja. As of the 6th of January this Ninja has committed 19 robberies. From CBS
New York [...]
News literally minutes old and no doubt updates will follow during the day.
A lunar eclipse will occur late Wednesday night stretching into Thursday morning, the timing being unfortunate as there will not be another until 2010. Astronomy Ireland give a clear breakdown of what will occur here as well as delivering the unfortunate news we won’t be able to view the full effect until 3 am.