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Charlie Hastings has made me notable! At least for a few minutes. Any minute now some pre-school kid is going to pull it down, I’m sure of it.
Thanks for sticking up for me Charlie! I owe you a martini.
Today my guests are Andrew and Kevin – an American and a Brit living in Japan – to talk about some current conspiracy theories, including hundreds of “concentration camps” being built in the USA to house ‘unlawful enemy combatants’ and Rex 84, “a plan by the United States federal government to test their ability to detain large numbers of American citizens in case of massive civil unrest or national emergency”.
Here’s some links to scare the pants off of you:
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Mike Moore gets stuck into Wolf on CNN:
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bs_LBXD69w]
(via Chris Pirillo’s twitter)
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Remember Marc Rich? The guy indicted by Guiliani for trading illegally with Iran and tax evasion who then received a Presidential Pardon from Clinton in the last hours of his Presidency because he was a large donor to the Democratic Party? Well guess who his US attorney was from 1985 until 2000? None other than Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the current recipient of Presidential largess. Small world.
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Via CC Chapman:
Another amazing video from Britain Has Talent. Check out this 6 year old girl singing Somewhere Over The Rainbow. Bloody amazing.
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En0A8KGMgq8]
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The iPhone is cool but – will it blend?
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg1ckCkm8YI]
Thanks Leslie Nassar!
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Duncan Riley put me onto this online film called Zeitgeist. It’s an examination of the central mythologies of Christianity and showing where they come from. According to the doco, the vast majority of the Jesus stories in the New Testament are direct rip-offs from the story of Horus dating back to 2000BCE.
Check out these similarities. Pretty compelling stuff. Any of the Christians out there have a good answer?
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Damn I’m tired today. Went downstairs for a quick nap at 9.30am and woke up two hours later.
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Productivity tip of the day – delete the “Latest News” live feed from Firefox toolbar. I think I checked that 50 times a day. It’s now GONE.
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How do you know that someone in Facebook is real?
I went to add Richard Dawkins to my Facebook friends list today and was writing him an introduction message when I thought – how do I know this is really Dawkins? I stumbled upon his profile in the Atheism group. But how do I know this isn’t some 16 year old kid who created Dawkins’ profile? Is there anyway of telling?
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Anyone else still getting telemarketing calls even though you’re on the Do Not Call register? I actually registered a complaint about one today from “Freedom Escape”, some kind of holiday packages outfit.
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I love what Kimberley from Evolve has done with the magazine I got in the mail today.
Check out the sub-title!
If you want to read the article on the panel that Duncan, Jim and I did, read:
The Lunatics in Charge
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I did a Myers-Briggs test today and it said my personality type is INTP. For some reason, people on Twitter find that hard to believe….
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