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I just watched TURBO. It’s an awesome short about futuristic videogamers. It made me feel warm and fuzzy inside.
It seems they want to make a feature film of it and need support. So, go and buy it or something. Now.

I recently watched a youtube video where Derren Brown debunks psychics and such by explaining “cold reading”.
He expresses disgust at these techniques, calling psychics and mediums charlatans.
However, I believe his explanations for his own tricks are also nonsense. He is forgoing mysticism, which is more or less unbelievable, and instead creating a much more believable [...]

What with all the news of web and media restrictions currently in Iran I have temporarily unblocked my Web Proxies in solidarity. (Usually I block Iranian IP addresses as they eat up resources and there is no ad revenue to be had). It’s always possible my proxies are now blocked by their government, but we’ll [...]

Their racism label is a problem. If you listen to their interviews, they can do a surprisingly good job at justifying their views on race. Particularly, they point to all the various organisations set up to promote “minorities” and ask: why not one for indigenous white people?
[Maybe I have missed something though, I'm happy to [...]

There are dumb questions and there are dumb questions
You get questions written in bad grammar with lots of spelling mistakes, where the person uses a roundabout route and the wrong terms to ask how to do something. But that’s not a dumb question; this person is just a bad typist and is not all that [...]

Here is a little gem of a quote from my sister:
“Most of the cleverest people I ever met were the ones who did middling but despised the system”
Not implying anything, of course. Ho hum.