punkscience goes to the beach

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Its bank holiday so me and punkwiff are off to Sennen. The surf's shit but I'm taking my kite as the wind will be good. I will finish putting all the RENs and climate change denialists in their respective places when I get back.

Word to all your mummas.

just another day at the office for Laird

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Fucking hell.

a little philosophy

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Duct tape is like 'The Force'. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

-Anon

more XKCD

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Snigger.

Johann Hari is awesome

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His article on child-marriage and Islam got rather predictably flamed to shit. His response is mature and balanced and I have utter respect for him.

Jesus is a junglist

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Shit, I laughed!

Ciderpunk!

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This is just so awesome I might actually spiff in my pants.

Now I know what 'casus belli' means

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And I found out from Spinwatch's take-up of the story about Dick Cheney planning to have a bunch of Navy Seals dressed as Iranians attack a US warship in the Persian Gulf to provide an excuse to attack Iran.

Dick Cheney is a monster and needs to be locked away.

high-grade tunage

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These guys are playing at Recydrate. They're gonna rule.

this is ultra-rad

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late night entertainment

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No, not porn. This.

A few corkers:

• Hanlon's razor — A corollary of Finagle's law, normally taking the form "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.". As with Finagle, possibly not strictly eponymous. Alternately, "Do not invoke conspiracy as explanation when ignorance and incompetence will suffice, as conspiracy implies intelligence."
• Hofstadter's law — "It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law." It was created by Douglas Hofstadter in his book Gödel, Escher, Bach.
• Littlewood's law — States that individuals can expect miracles to happen to them, at the rate of about one per month. Coined by Professor J E Littlewood, (1885–1977)
• Poe's Law — Without a blatant display of humor, it is impossible to tell the difference between religious Fundamentalism and a parody thereof.
• Sturgeon's revelation — "90 percent of everything is crap."

"Free Trade" is an oxymoron

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Yeah, anyone who's read Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine knows what a bunch of inhuman monsters the WTO and World Bank are. Johann would like to remind us of this.

the festival experience

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It was dark and wet; soaked in the fermented juice of a million apples. I spent hours with my eyes closed and inhaled the charred fumes of exotic spices. There was a roaring fire around which dark shapes cavorted bizarrely. I feared them and retired to the bosom of the psy-trance bunker. Later they played dubstep, which suited my state of inebriation well. The following day I had the most amazing veggie burger that has ever slid past my tonsils. The mud got deeper and the tea stronger. Nell appeared and we danced and laughed like wild gypsies, drunk on the beauty of life. I had a wee in front of one of the most beautiful panorama's I have ever seen. The mud got even deeper.

Iran calls moratorium on stoning

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This is pretty good news for the eight or so people currently lined up for this most hideous of deaths.