Pete Otaqui’s blog about web development and everything else
Kuro5hin has a brilliant, if lazy, eulogy for George Carlin – who would undoubtedly have loved it.
Pope John Paul IIGeorge Carlin embraced the harsh realities of suffering head-on, and showed that they arean integral and unavoidable part of our pilgrimage here on earth, not to be feared but to be accepted willingly and even joyfully as the inevitable conditions for entrance into eternal lifedumb.
ReadWriteWeb has an interesting but not exactly deeply thought-out piece on Link Journalism. I think the point they miss is to question how much journalism done for mainstream media channels is nothing more than repitition of the day’s news agenda – it’s not a coincidence that most journalists’ bosses are called editors.
Haven’t you ever noticed how many news channels at any given time are just churning through the same few Reuters or AP stories as everybody else? This can be potentially, if not in fact usually, less “original” than more obviously link-based journalism as there is inevitably less freedom and multi-lateralism in the sources.
Then again, I went to art college I have even read Death of the Author so I guess I’ve been a bit brainwashed.
Along the lines of my recent post about car-related deaths versus terrorism-related deaths, see this graph representing the amounts of deaths related to different issues.
I may have to steal the ‘Saint Pete for Peace’ moniker.
According to a study in the latest issue of Injury Prevention, car crashes kill 400 times more people than international terrorism in the 29 (developed) member countried of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) between 1994 and 2003.
From the InfoWars article on the study:
… the number of Americans who avoided flying after 9/11 and were subsequently killed in car crashes was higher than the total number of passengers who died on the four 9/11 flights.
Should we have draconian new laws and fundamentally change the way our society works as a result? The changes would save vastly more lives than stop-and-search routines at airports and train stations.
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I’ll be upset, but surprised, if I’m asked to remove this post because, apparently, you can copyright a number. If that’s the case, should I go for 1? Actually I think 0 is more in my line.
