The One Percent
The total wealth of American households is estimated at more than $60 trillion. It is heavily concentrated in very few hands. A conservative estimate given the lifespans of Americans would be that 2 percent...
The total wealth of American households is estimated at more than $60 trillion. It is heavily concentrated in very few hands. A conservative estimate given the lifespans of Americans would be that 2 percent...
I decided I should expand from making just curries and pilafs. So I looked into getting a pizza stone but then found out the silly things break all the time. So I researched around...
This is what really happens at Y Combinator Demo Days:
Zynga is an ethically challenged company that churns out Skinner Box “games” almost but not completely devoid of class or originality. It’s also been noted for being no less shy than most of the...
So it seems as if this Democratic President learned one hard lesson from his predecessor Carter’s aborted attempt to stage a commando raid: if there are helicopters involved, some of them will malfunction. Carter’s...
Billy Electron / dnb / drum and bass / dubstep / Milanese / music / Uncategorized
by mike · Published 2008-11-01
Billy Electron
banking / corporate welfare / Henry Paulson / plutocracy / Uncategorized
by mike · Published 2008-09-20
Financial-market wise guys, who had been seized with fear, are suddenly drunk with hope. They are rallying explosively because they think they have successfully stampeded Washington into accepting the Wall Street Journal solution to...
Cuil / Google / Hitler / Sarah Carey / science fiction / TCD / Tom Costello / TrinCon 400 / Trinity College Dublin / Uncategorized
by mike · Published 2008-07-29 · Last modified 2008-07-31
So, spurred on by the revelations that ex-Hitler Speech connoisseur Tom Costello from my old college TCD has got himself a new search engine that apparently returns more targetted gay porn results than Google,...
aging / ketamine / medical school / mice / oxidation / schizophrenia / Scuba / Uncategorized
by mike · Published 2008-07-29
No updates for a while. I have been rather busy working in a lab investigating the molecular basis of schizophrenia and aging using oxidative mechanisms (mainly by bothering mice dosed up on ketamine and...
detective fiction / Gilles de Rais / Herald Childe / horror / Image of the Beast / Joan of Arc / Philip José Farmer / porn / science fiction / Uncategorized
by mike · Published 2007-11-03
I was inspired by yesterday’s entry to add this little pearl of wisdom to Wikipedia’s entry for Cultural Depictions of Joan of Arc: In the Herald Childe or Image of the Beast novel sequence...
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