Year: 2008

Direction

Things are winding down here… I’m moving into a new and very different house in the next 3 weeks. While school remains the same, I recently switched positions at work, and in a few months I will also leave the country for a whole semester. Needless to say, a lot is changing. But I’m also … Read more

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America

Now, more then ever, this bears repeating. In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the Earth, … Read more

It’s Torture

Christopher Hitchens of Vanity Fair used to call waterboarding “extreme interrogation,” and not torture. He went so far as to test his convictions, and videotaped his own waterboarding. The resulting article, “Believe Me, It’s Torture,” and the accompanying video, are incredible work. There is no question about the nature of waterboarding, and our own government … Read more

How music is faked

This was on Digg, so some of you may have seen it, but I think it’s worth repeating here. They took the strict ingredients for pop music to recreate its end result: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irk3_p15RJY&w=425&h=344] (link for facebookers) This happens for all styles of music, including classical. Except for the most trained ears (not mine) it is … Read more