Rich |
I'm not rich; no, maybe I am. Who knows? I'm richer than ninety-nine point five percent of the world's population, I'm pretty sure of that. But it's that other half percent that...
Posted by Oswald on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:24:00 PST |
Collapse |
April 30th, 2008. I wake at seven thirty, a little late for me, swing my legs out of bed and stumble, still half awake, down the stairs. I push open the kitchen door, and am just about to ...
Posted by Oswald on Thu, 22 May 2008 02:22:00 PST |
A Man of Few Words |
He's been busy recently. The farmer who owns the land that surrounds my house doesn't work, in the traditional sense: he owns the land, but not the animals that graze upon it. Consequently...
Posted by Oswald on Tue, 20 May 2008 10:04:00 PST |
The Colorado Experiment |
It depresses me to think that it took a bunch of republicans to make it work: the Colorado Experiment.
Politicians in Colorado looked at the steady rise in anti-social behaviour in their state and dec...
Posted by Oswald on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:37:00 PST |
The Sixth Finger |
"The Sixth Finger" is an "Outer Limits" episode from around 1963. It stars David McCallum, as a miner (yes, really) who participates in an experiment to accelerate the evolution of a human ...
Posted by Oswald on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:17:00 PST |
Wings of Desire |
"Wings of Desire": the angel wants to be human, he wants to touch and taste and feel, and Peter Falk is hanging around to spin his quirky imrpovisations; when the angel is close to becoming human, the...
Posted by Oswald on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:21:00 PST |
Smashing |
from "Irrationality" by Stuart Sutherland.
’In a classic experiment Elizabeth Loftus showed subjects a videotape of a car accident. Some subjects were then asked, ’How fast were the ...
Posted by Oswald on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 07:35:00 PST |
Bad Science |
I was going to post a very long and tedious blog about "Irrationality" a truly great and important book by the late Stuart Sutherland.
However, instead I want everyone to read this Ben Gol...
Posted by Oswald on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 01:01:00 PST |
Outer Limits |
When I was very, very small, not much bigger than one of those little chaps in the Babybel advert - and as much as I like that advert, my favourite advert of the last few months is for the VW Polo, th...
Posted by Oswald on Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:37:00 PST |
Alien |
I watched Ridley Scott’s ’Alien’ last night; haven’t seen it for at least ten years. It stands up pretty well, I think. But it’s interesting to note where the...
Posted by Oswald on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 01:22:00 PST |
