George Carlin’s eulogy on Kuro5hin

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Kuro5hin has a brilliant, if lazy, eulogy for George Carlin – who would undoubtedly have loved it. Pope John Paul II George Carlin embraced the harsh realities of suffering head-on, and showed that they are an integral and unavoidable part of our pilgrimage here on earth, not to be feared but to be accepted willingly… Read more »

Is Link Journalism any different to the majority of reporting?

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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… Read more »

The Real Threat

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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.

Car Crashes Killl 400 times more people than international terrorism

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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… Read more »

Spread this number

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09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 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.