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I cannot teach him; the boy has no patience
This post is mainly for my brother, ‘Big M’. Its aim is to highlight a post I wrote in 2007, one about using pattern recognition to remember credit card personal identification numbers, a subject that came up in our meeting … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Computers and Internet, Education
Tagged credit card, identity theft, memory, password, PIN, safety, security, simple, Yoda
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Activate the Omega-13
Hat tip to Quakerattled (I recommend reading ‘Bill McKibben and 565 gigatons‘, from where I snitched the above video link).
Posted in ... wait, what?, Business, Communication, Core thought, Culture, Drama, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, News and politics, People, Phlyarology, Science, Strategy
Tagged activism, Change, environment, expose, fossoil, manufacturing doubt, safety, sustainability
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Ding, dong, the witch is dead
On the radio yesterday I heard the compère read out a tweet that described as ‘obscene’ the act of spending £10k£10m from the public purse on a funeral for the Iron Lady. (I agree with that stance myself; but then … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Communication, Core thought, Culture, Drama, Economics, Energy, Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, Health, News and politics, People, Phlyarology, Strategy, Tributes
Tagged Change, coal, cognitive dissonance, environment, fossoil, habituation, injustice, Iron Lady, perception, safety, Thatcher, UK
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Join the #ForwardOnClimate Rally on 17Feb2013
From the video above, Bill McKibben, commenting on the fact that half of the North polar ice cap is ‘missing’ as a direct result of our fossoil addiction: We have taken one of the Earth’s great physical features — and … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Climate, Communication, consciousness, Core thought, crowdsourcing, Culture, Economics, Education, Energy, Environment, Food, GCD: Global climate disruption, Health, memetics, News and politics, People, Strategy, Water
Tagged action, activism, AGW, Change, climate change, environment, safety, security
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Does the denial industry have its teeth in GMO too?
I’ve been against the idea of tinkering with genes to create new things for people to eat for some considerable millennia (or so it seems). My objection is quite simple: though they may believe that they are, most humans aren’t … Continue reading
Posted in ... wait, what?, Business, Capitalism, Communication, Core thought, Culture, Economics, Environment, Food, Health, Ludditis, People, Phlyarology, Science, Strategy
Tagged environment, genetics, GM, GMO, safety, stupid, sustainability
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Fracking hell
Coming soon to a water supply near you… Precautionary principle? Homo fatuus brutus don’t need no stinking precautionary principle. Time to redefine ‘the F word’: frack it.
Posted in ... wait, what?, Environment, News and politics
Tagged environment, frack, marcellus shale, safety, stupid
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Passwords – how secure is my password?
[update 09Feb2014] Kudos to howsecureismypassword.net — I’ve just revisited their site, to discover that their home page now bears the disclaimer (and useful advice): This site could be stealing your password… it’s not, but it easily could be. Be careful … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Computers and Internet, Education, Phlyarology, Strategy
Tagged identity theft, password, privacy, safety, security
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Time to wake up
Bill Mahler makes a lot of good (and highly amusing!) points in this clip. But one thing that he (understandably) gets wrong is assuming that ‘BP’ still stands for ‘British Petroleum’; it doesn’t. BP is now ‘just’ ‘BP’ – it’s a … Continue reading
Jeju. An island of world peace, preparing for war.
I find it incredible how few things that really matter are even mentioned once in the tediously repetitive mass media ‘news’ reporting. Here’s one such item — about Jeju Island — reported on by Naom Chomsky, emeritus professor of linguistics … Continue reading
Posted in News and politics
Tagged boundaries, cognition, injustice, safety, security, stupid
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It doesn’t bear thinking about
Dismissed out-of-hand by some as merely another symbol, the polar bear is an apt icon of our times. Take, for instance, this story from Nature earlier this year. It begins in 2006 with a survey finding a number of polar … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, GCD: Global climate disruption, News and politics
Tagged 'common' sense, AGW, boundaries, cognition, deniers, environment, FUD, protection, safety, science
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Wibble 