The Shannon Gulag
Dublin High Court rejects US arrest warrant. Snowden may get to stopover in delightful Shannon and see first-hand, earlier than expected, what a gulag looks like. If it is the case that the offences...
meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Penile Metallic Ring Retraction
Here mainly for the headline possibilities! A case of penile strangulation in a 35 year old male truck driver by profession reported here. Two metallic rings were self introduced up to the base of...
Yet Another ED Call Night:
No complaint of visual hallucinations, no complaint of auditory hallucinations, no complaint of tactile hallucinations, no suicidal ideations, no homicidal ideations, no reported overdose. Pt went to the XXXXXXX and spent $300.00 on a...
Who Are the People in Your Neighbourhood?
Apropos of recent events, how well can you identify individuals from shallow, off-the-shelf and nominally anonymised mobile cellphone metadata without cross-correlation to other large databases? We study fifteen months of human mobility data for...
Neither Holy, Nor Roman, Nor an Empire
Into the EU, the Germans brought not only their rapidly recovering economy but also much of their premodern political culture, especially a preoccupation with legality, interminable debate and due process, so that the EU...
Tyrion Style FTW!
Finally my nose is growing back! Dead skin sloughing appears complete. New skin emerging via secondary intention and EPICALLY GROSS. Looking forward to Tyrion Style FTW!
Post-Post-Modern Capitalism
Finance is to our stagnant societies what the space race and the Cold War were to the Eastern Bloc countries of the 1970s and 80s – a huge cost that the state imposes on...
Borne Back Ceaselessly
So there’s a new Gatsby movie, full of crap fast-cut song-and-dance scenes ala Moulin Rouge. I like the way the director, Baz Luhrmann, is so very fakeGatsby when he says stuff like: Luhrmann is...
Who Watches the Watchmen?
We do! More here.
The Romance of Mental Illness
The Fantasy: httpv://vimeo.com/62596239 The Reality: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWaFqw8XnpA