“Why does a hummingbird flap its wings so fast?” “So that it can hover.” “Why does it need to hover?” “So that it can delicately insert its long tongue deep into the sweetest flowers and extract the nectar there.” “Why…
Author: onestring
More proof Facebook is bad news
What more information do we need to convince us to get the hell out of dodge? Why are you trading your privacy for the privilege of playing Farmville? Don’t worry, your real friends will call you. The implications of Facebook’s…
Prairie dog language decoded — I shit you not
This opens the door to real inter-species language translation. Just imagine the possible implications… http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/06/21/science-prairie-dog-language-decoded.html
Construction eye opener
[This is something I wrote a long time ago and never posted, because I didn’t feel it was polished enough or quite finished. I’m not in the reno business anymore, but… what the hell, I’m posting it as is anyway.…
Why post-apocalypse books and films matter
I love post-apocalypse movies, but to tell you the truth they scare the crap out of me. My interest in stories of this type used to be just out of fascination with an imaginary world, but as time has progressed…
My Ishmael
In a previous article I talked about the book Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn. I was delighted to discover a sequel to that book called My Ishmael. I’m enjoying it just as much. The thing I love most about these books…
Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1895 – 1986
I had never heard of this man before, but after stumbling upon these quotes I became fascinated and wanted to know all about him. There is an excellent biography located on Wikipedia. It is no measure of health to be…
Vatican promotes “hate thy neighbour” — Seems wrong somehow…
Did we need any more evidence that the Vatican is an organization devoted to keeping power in the hands of men? Make that “power in the hands of hetero men”. No, wait…. “power in the hands of ostensibly hetero men.”…
Rape
Over the past week not a newscast has been spoken here in Canada without mentioning the desperately unfortunate case of Rehtaeh Parsons, a 17 year-old girl who was gang-raped by four boys and then subsequently bullied by them and others…
Increasing efficiency increases waste. WTF?
In my post “The nature of waste“, I made a direct link between the concepts of efficiency and waste, namely that: Increasing efficiency increases waste. That sounds strange doesn’t it? I had myself confused by this even though I wrote…