2007 — Day 71 - rushing from rationality
I'm not an over(t)ly political chap. (It would do my blood pressure no good if I was.) But when you find a news item
like this
and your mind works the way mine does, you may well be reminded of the plot line of Heinlein's 1939
story If this goes on—
set in America in the year 2100 (we should be so lucky) — this being a different America; one that is
ruled by a corrupt and despotic religious dictator who stays in
power (don't they all?) through clever use of advanced psychological techniques and a dedicated military clique.
If you follow that link (down, as it were, the Rabbit Hole) you'll find many (many!) comments feeding back to the paper, including the delightful
I have a problem with Gravity. I find the science behind it too hard to understand and complicated. Nowhere is there a 'theory of gravity' in the Bible. So, it
must not exist. In fact, most of physics is unproven to my (or Scripture's) liking. Physics should be removed. Biology too, with all that nastiness and sex. Don't even get
me started on Math.
What's that DVD on the doormat?
It looks like a refinement, in some ways, of Heinlein's futuristic insight blended with "Blast from the Past" or, maybe, that HG Wells 1899 story When The Sleeper Wakes5, namely:
- Idiocracy, from the chap (Mike Judge) who made the very funny Office Space
Meanwhile, the young paper person shovelled everything except the main section of today's Guardian through the letterbox, too. So we also have:
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
CSS (curdling slowly but surely)
In happier news, Ian in NZ has indeed commented on my latest navbar — it's lucky for me he only saw it after I'd disabled the resizing that was making it twitch all the time. But Junior's been searching around for a better emulation of the OS X docking bar and has sent me the following link to an Italian JavaScripted solution which is quite boggling. I particularly liked the Red Pepper ghosts.