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Out with the old, in with the new.
There. I’ve said it.
Now: Have a great finish to 2008, a healthy welcome to 2009, nothing that you’ll regret if you remember it. We’ll see you round the campus.
Cheers, aye.
Oh, and if it’s more you want, go see Jules.
Update: Neopolitan men have [...]
Not so much.
Possibly related?
Bitterly cold weather slid over from Canada and settled into Interior Alaska with forecasters saying temperatures could continue to slide to nearly 50 degrees below zero in coming days.
Over the weekend, the mercury at Fairbanks International Airport dropped to 39 degrees below zero. Areas in the Interior [...]
My company is seeking a strategic hire for SPAWAR Systems Center – Atlantic. A senior systems engineer, qualifications and PD below.
(The company) is seeking a Senior Systems Engineer to work on-site at SSC-Atlantic in Charleston, South Carolina. This position will provide technical and program management support directly to the Chief Engineer (CHENG). The [...]
You don’t have to believe in everything he says. But you can certainly admire the forthright way in which he says it.
The USS Pueblo was a signals intelligence ship captured by the North Koreans on 23 January 1968 by forces of the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea while operating in international waters. Her CO surrendered the ship after the loss of one sailor killed and ten wounded, but – significantly, to those in the sea [...]
Occasional reader Mark sends along a tipper for the man who has everything – the Innespace “Seabreacher“.
(Video here.)
Of course for my money, Jason has the better notion.
It flies, it floats, it folds its wings for storage and towing. Now, if only it’d make me a sammich.
While we’re on [...]
The Dutch, that most tolerant of European peoples, have at last reached the limits of their tolerance. The change has come from within the Dutch Labor Party – the country’s biggest left-wing political grouping and the party holding the “integration” portfolio in government:
“The mistake we can never repeat is stifling criticism of cultures [...]
It seems to me that all this talk about “proportionality” in the ongoing brawl between Israel and Hamas misses the point. This has nothing at all to do with proportionality, nor even the relative merits of their various arguments, and everything to do with the mutual aspirations of the antagonists. These aspirations overlap in [...]
It means not running:
(Marine Maj. Gen. John Kelly) went to Ramadi to interview Iraqi witnesses — a task generals usually delegate to subordinates.
Some Iraqis told him they were incredulous that the two Marines had not fled.
When Marine technicians restored a damaged security camera, the images were undeniable.
While Iraqi police fled, [...]
“No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.” — Albert Einstein
Can scientists help economists and regulators stabilize financial markets?
A number of scientists – people who pride themselves on acknowledging the limits of their knowledge and who use a rigorous process to expand the boundaries of what’s [...]
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Credo "Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
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"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
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