by Tom | Aug 11, 2010 | Reading
What Prohibition Can Teach Us About Marijuana Legalization. Lots of good Q+A here. I wonder how the death rate from alcohol looked when Americans drank three times as much as they do now in the early 19th century?
by Tom | Aug 4, 2010 | Reading
Some glorious Mashes I missed. Arseholes who think they’re good at driving celebrate speed camera victory. Vicar prays to sham god. “Brown preyed on the weak, vulnerable and fucking stupid with an elaborately woven tale involving miracles and donkeys in...
by Tom | Aug 4, 2010 | Reading, Science
Forgotten characters tells a fascinating story of the gradual erosion of the use of characters among the Chinese. Amazing how technology affects communication which affects language which affects thought.
by Tom | Aug 2, 2010 | Reading
xkcd: Atheists is a nice tease for those who use the radical atheist / religious nutter straw men.
by Tom | Jul 27, 2010 | Reading
Lovely stick man revenge fantasy. http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs13/f/2007/077/2/e/Animator_vs__Animation_by_alanbecker.swf
by Tom | Jul 20, 2010 | Personal, Reading
I like Sholto’s idea of bringing people together around a song in How do you create a “big society”?. He’s also spot on about singing being egalitarian. I also enjoy meeting people from random backgrounds: there is no required route through...
