Posts Tagged ‘culture’

Raids into Pakistan

Friday, September 12th, 2008

Alright, so Bush has unilaterally OK’d military raids into Pakistan -incursions in which civilians have been killed- without seeking permission first from the Pakistani government. This is of course not the first time something of this sort happens, but it seems like it being ok is SO ingrained in culture and driven home by the media that it doesn’t seem to cause anyone to flinch. I’m going to get all Chomskyan on you:

Lets start from the beginning:
If you look at the UN Charter, chapter 1, article 2:
2. All Members, in order to ensure to all of them the rights and benefits resulting from membership, shall fulfill in good faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with the present Charter.

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Farewell, and welcome back Mr. Jobs

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Bloomberg news published a few days ago Steve Jobs’ obituary…No, he’s not dead, it was just one of those little mistakes – hit “Publish” instead of “Save”? It was quickly removed from the site, yet not quick enough for Gawker not to pick up on it.
Read the entire 17 page (yes 17 pages!!) obituary, internal notes and other goodies in Gawker’s site here.
Creepy, but unsurprising that they pre-write these things. I wonder if the folder structure where they keep them looks something like this.

Erratica - Obituaries

Oh, and welcome back Mr. Jobs.

McGyver’s list of tricks

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008

During a lunchtime conversation on problems solved by McGyver, I failed to convince my fellow friends of the existence of an episode where McGyver successfully fixes the bullet-ridden radiator of a truck using just eggs (to cover the holes) and water.

The process:
Fll the radiator with water and add eggs to it.
Turn the truck on.
As the water heats up, the eggs cook and fill the holes…

After a brief search, I found this *extensive* list of all the problems solved by McGyver.

I was of course vindicated: Bushmaster is the episode…He used only the whites though, so I got that detail wrong. Ha!