I was thinking further about the Harp, and how it’s used by the Republic of Ireland (as the successor state to the Irish Free State, itself the successor state of the Kingdom of Ireland)....

Stout is a simple drink that can be brewed anywhere, but people take it very seriously. Because of the Guinness Family’s Loyalism and the brewery’s location in the Pale, Guinness was long known as...

Labels: Morrígan

Except for some isolated restaurant-related insertions, I’ve tried to avoid eating animals (marine or land) for 20 years. Except for the inevitable beetle carapaces and various arthropod parts so popular in food colourings. My...

Labels: Military Keynesianism

So Google’s made me “upgrade” to some version 2 blog thing, right in the middle of a migration to WordPress (via Movable Type because of some conversion issues). I hope this doesn’t fuck things...

I found this old video online of “2001” guy Arthur C Clarke going on about fractals. It’s very early 90s retro, when I skimmed through it I kept seeing Altern-8 and early Prodigy videos…

Death by firing squad … came to be regarded as too bloody and uncontrolled … Hanging came to be regarded as still more inhumane. Under the best of circumstances, the cervical spine is broken...

Blame CanadaTrimSpa!

Cuba has more doctors per capita than any other country: 70,000 for a population of 11 million … Life expectancy in Cuba is the same as that of the United States, and its rate...