Even in a recently created bureaucracy cultural differences can emerge. Over the last year or so since the US Government decided that we all had to be finger printed and photographed I have observed an interesting pattern. Entering the US on the West Coast they insist you take your glasses off before they take the […]
I have always argued that there is more to human communication than aural and visual stimulation and that as a result while things like video and web conferencing are cool and useful its just not the same as being there. Well I am now well and truly hoist on my own petard [Hamlet III.iv.207] as […]
and the build up to this is pretty good quoth he, with tongue very firmly in cheek and feeling guilty for past transgressions. Check out the archive for the full story. Dogbert’s Schadenfreude Party is pretty cool as well so you might want to start there.
Scott Adams started in on the subject on the 2nd August but the best has just appeared on line. This information brought to you courtesy of my Apple Widget which, with one touch of the F12 button gives me a daily dose of this collection of modern archetypes
Don’t worry I have not joined an end of the world cult, but the Doomsday Book has just gone on line . I was sitting at the computer this morning, debating religion with Euan Semple. He had just finished two bottles of red wine (I assume in company) and I had woken up and was […]
Is nothing sacred? Wooky Hole – one of the main tourist attractions near where I live has suffered badly. Firstly one of their Daleks was kidnapped: you just have to read the ransom note. Secondly, if that was not bad enough, a Dobermann called Barney guarding their toy exhibition went wild with Elvis’s Teddy Bear. […]
In respect of my dislike of Myers-Briggs (see the extended text in the entry below) readers are commended to the skeptics web site This is one of the best sites I know on the web authored by Robert Todd Carroll. It’s one of the few places where you can find lychanthropy and logical positivism on […]
Having just discovered that “The Fellowship of the Ring” was published for the first time in the year I was born, I wonder if we should abandon the idea of Baby Boomers in favour of the title of this entry?
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