Monthly Archives: February 2011

fission chips

Posted on 2011/02/15 by dermot

This starts slow, then really hits it’s stride in the 1950s: James Howard Kunstler has called Suburbia “the greatest mis-allocation of wealth in the history of the human race”. Well, second greatest, at any rate.

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dmitri orlov interview

Posted on 2011/02/03 by dermot

Dmitri Orlov, author of “Re-Inventing Collapse” gives a 1/2 hour explanation of why the U.S. in a worse place today than the U.S.S.R. back in the 1980s: Dmitri’s blog: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/

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you need space

Posted on 2011/02/02 by dermot

A digital orrery. It has two settings: Earth centered (Tychonian), and Sun centered (Copernican). You can select any time to see the positions of the planets, by clicking on the outer ring at the zodiac: The Kepler spacecraft has found … Continue reading →

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the snafu principle

Posted on 2011/02/02 by dermot

This may go some way to explaining the shock, surprise, and apparent lack of unpreparedness of the world’s nations to the current events in the Middle East: “The SNAFU Principle”, explained many years ago by Robert Anton Wilson: It’s what … Continue reading →

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lego ruins

Posted on 2011/02/02 by dermot

Via brothers brick, a phenomenally skillful example of lego sorcery:

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