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Ian Mackaye Interview
06-Mar-10Abortion, Fetus etc…
05-Feb-10From: When personhood begins in the embryo: Avoiding a Syllabus of Errors. Scott F. Gilbert,
Martin Biological Laboratories, Biology Department, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
‘evidence using magnetoencephalography suggests that the human EEG pattern usually doesn’t emerge until week 28. Moreover, when it emerges, it appears to be one of sleep rhythms. Mellor et al. reviewed the studies [...]
KMFDM – Son of a Gun
04-Jan-10The Bechdel Test for Women in Movies
04-Jan-10The Bechdel Test is a simple way to gauge the active presence of female characters in Hollywood films and just how well rounded and complete those roles are. It was created by Allison Bechdel in her comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For in 1985. It is astonishing the number of popular movies that can’t [...]
KMFDM – Waste
04-Jan-10sugarcoma – crazy
04-Jan-10http://www.heraldsun.com.au/entertainment/influential-melbourne-guitarist-rowland-s-howard-dies/story-e6frf96f-1225814790391
Rowland S Howard has lost his battle with liver cancer.
He passed away this morning, aged 50.
Howard was waiting for a liver transplant and had cancelled recent shows due to illness.
The influential guitarist came to prominence as a member of Melbourne punk band the Boys Next Door who became The Birthday Party, fronted by Nick Cave.
Howard [...]
Death Penalty
29-Dec-09It’s important to keep in mind that Texas, in all of it’s death penalty glory, executed 18 people in 2008. China executed 1,718.
Population of Texas: 24,326,974
Population of the PRC, excluding Taiwan: 1,345,751,000
(Texas/China population = 0.018076876034273799536466998724132)*1,718= 31
China executes ~1.72 prisoners for every one Texas executes when weighted for population.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/12/15/2772467.htm
Quote:
“The Federal Government will introduce compulsory internet filtering to block overseas sites which contain criminal content, including child sex abuse and sexual violence.
“Our pilot, and the experience of ISPs in many western democracies, shows that ISP level-filtering of a defined list of URLs can be delivered with 100 per cent accuracy,” he said.
Also from the [...]
