— Mr Jelly
Thursday, 30 June 2011
Too Much To Ask?
All I wanted to do was come to London and sell a dead Nazi's head.
Labels:
Psychoville
Wednesday, 29 June 2011
Tuesday, 28 June 2011
Rights
Sadly, a lot of "normal" people who demand freedom of speech
do so to compensate for avoiding freedom of thought.
— Doug Anderson
do so to compensate for avoiding freedom of thought.
— Doug Anderson
Labels:
Doug Anderson
Monday, 27 June 2011
Sunday, 26 June 2011
Saturday, 25 June 2011
Friday, 24 June 2011
Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Monday, 20 June 2011
Inductive Reasoning
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck,
we have at least to consider the possibility
that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
we have at least to consider the possibility
that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
— Douglas Adams
An Alleged Duck |
Labels:
Douglas Adams,
Philosophy
Sunday, 19 June 2011
Saturday, 18 June 2011
Friday, 17 June 2011
Thursday, 16 June 2011
Like A Fish Needs A Barnacle
Bloomsday is observed on 16 June each year around the world, to celebrate the life of Irish writer James Joyce and to relive the events in his novel Ulysses, that took place on the same day in 1904 in Dublin, Ireland.
Though he wrote the book in later years, Joyce enshrined the date 16 June 1904 in literary history as a commemoration of the day he first 'stepped out' with the love of his life Nora Barnacle.
Wednesday, 15 June 2011
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
We Thought Of It First!
[As the PFJ approach a corner crouching, another group of rebels, the Campaign for a Free Galilee (CFG) advance towards the other side.]
CFG 1: Sssh.
CFG 2: Sssh.
[The two groups spot each other, and relax. After a few confused moments, the leader (CFGHead) declares his group in a thick Welsh accent.]
CFGHead: Campaign for Free Galilee.
PFJHead: Oh. Uh. People's Front of Judea. Officials.
CFGHead: Oh.
PFJHead: What's your group doing here?
CFGHead: We're going to kidnap Pilate's wife, take her back, issue demands.
PFJHead: So are we.
CFGHead: What?
PFJHead: That's our plan.
CFGHead: We were here first.
PFJHead: What do you mean?
CFGHead: We thought of it first.
PFJ: Man Oh yeah?
CFGHead: Yes. A couple of years ago.
PFJ: Oh, yeahehehe.
CFG Man: He did!
PFJHead: Okay, come on, come on. You got all your demands worked out?
CFGHead: 'Course we have.
PFJHead: What are they?
CFGHead: Well I'm not telling you.
PFJ men: yeah.
PFJHead: Oh come on. Pull the other one.
CFGHead: That's not the point. We thought of it before you.
Various: Ssssh.
PFJHead: Did not.
CFGHead: We did.
PFJ: You did not.
CFG: We bloody did!
Various: Sssssssh. Sssssssssssssh.
CFGHead: You bastards, we've been planning this for months.
PFJHead: Well tought titty for you, fish face. AAAAWW!
[A general fight breaks out between the two groups.]
Brian: Brothers, brothers. We should be struggling together.
PFJHead: We are!
Brian: We musn't fight each other. Surely we should be united against the common enemy.
All: The Judæan People's front!!!
Brian: No. No. The Romans!
All: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes.
CFG 1: Sssh.
CFG 2: Sssh.
[The two groups spot each other, and relax. After a few confused moments, the leader (CFGHead) declares his group in a thick Welsh accent.]
CFGHead: Campaign for Free Galilee.
PFJHead: Oh. Uh. People's Front of Judea. Officials.
CFGHead: Oh.
PFJHead: What's your group doing here?
CFGHead: We're going to kidnap Pilate's wife, take her back, issue demands.
PFJHead: So are we.
CFGHead: What?
PFJHead: That's our plan.
CFGHead: We were here first.
PFJHead: What do you mean?
CFGHead: We thought of it first.
PFJ: Man Oh yeah?
CFGHead: Yes. A couple of years ago.
PFJ: Oh, yeahehehe.
CFG Man: He did!
PFJHead: Okay, come on, come on. You got all your demands worked out?
CFGHead: 'Course we have.
PFJHead: What are they?
CFGHead: Well I'm not telling you.
PFJ men: yeah.
PFJHead: Oh come on. Pull the other one.
CFGHead: That's not the point. We thought of it before you.
Various: Ssssh.
PFJHead: Did not.
CFGHead: We did.
PFJ: You did not.
CFG: We bloody did!
Various: Sssssssh. Sssssssssssssh.
CFGHead: You bastards, we've been planning this for months.
PFJHead: Well tought titty for you, fish face. AAAAWW!
[A general fight breaks out between the two groups.]
Brian: Brothers, brothers. We should be struggling together.
PFJHead: We are!
Brian: We musn't fight each other. Surely we should be united against the common enemy.
All: The Judæan People's front!!!
Brian: No. No. The Romans!
All: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yes.
Labels:
Monty Python
Monday, 13 June 2011
To Go With Bold Entreaty Whither No Man Had Gone Before
At length, sick with longing for those glittering sunset streets and cryptical hill lanes among ancient tiled roofs, nor able sleeping or waking to drive them from his mind, Carter resolved to go with bold entreaty whither no man had gone before, and dare the icy deserts through the dark to where unknown Kadath, veiled in cloud and crowned with unimagined stars, holds secret and nocturnal the onyx castle of the Great Ones.
— HP Lovecraft (1927)
Labels:
Etymology
Sunday, 12 June 2011
Saturday, 11 June 2011
Friday, 10 June 2011
Dying For America
Another
Futile
Gesture
Highlighting
Australia's
Neurotic
Incurable
Subservience
To
American
Needs
Futile
Gesture
Highlighting
Australia's
Neurotic
Incurable
Subservience
To
American
Needs
Labels:
Michæl Leunig
Thursday, 9 June 2011
Funny Games
My films are intended as polemical statements against the American 'barrel down' cinema and its disempowerment of the spectator. They are an appeal for a cinema of insistent question instead of false answers; for clarifying distance in place of violating closeness; for provocation of dialogue instead of consumption of consensus.
— Michæl Haneke
Labels:
Cinema
Wednesday, 8 June 2011
Economic Growth & Adam Smith's 'Invisible Hand'
Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit — in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in the commons brings ruin to all.
— Garrett Hardin 'The Tragedy Of The Commons'
Labels:
Social Insects
One Foot In The Grave
The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things. … This inevitableness of destiny can only be illustrated in terms of human life by incidents which in fact involve unhappiness. For it is only by them that the futility of escape can be made evident in the drama.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Labels:
Alfred North Whitehead,
Philosophy
Conspiracy Theory
Never attribute to conspiracy that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
— Robert Heinlein
— Robert Heinlein
Tuesday, 7 June 2011
Numb And Number
Thus the erectile organ comes to symbolize the place of jouissance [ecstasy], not in itself, or even in the form of an image, but as a part lacking in the desired image: that is why it is equivalent to the of the signification produced above, of the jouissance that it restores by the coefficient of its statement to the function of lack of signifier (-1).
— Jacques Lacan
Administration
They need activity. It is their substitute for achievement.
— Sir Humphrey Appleby
Labels:
Yes Minister
Monday, 6 June 2011
Sunday, 5 June 2011
Saturday, 4 June 2011
Friday, 3 June 2011
Thursday, 2 June 2011
Co-operation And Retaliation
Tit for tat is a highly effective strategy in game theory for the iterated prisoner's dilemma. It was first introduced by Anatol Rapoport in Robert Axelrod's two tournaments, held around 1980. An agent using this strategy will initially cooperate, then respond in kind to an opponent's previous action. Unless provoked, the agent will always cooperate. If provoked, the agent will retaliate. Some game theorists informally believe the strategy to be optimal, although no proof is presented.
A Fool
What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself whenever I am in their company.
— Casanova
Labels:
Social Insects
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
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