Posts by Forget It

Huge in the dense grey ten together

Megalith-still. They breathed, making no move,

With draped manes and tilted hind-hooves,

Making no sound.

I passed: not one snorted or jerked its head.

Grey silent fragments

Of a grey still world.

http://www.jeanettewinterson.com/poem/the-horses/

I suppose this is different from

Asking the Oracle.

Next question Siri: Who killed JFK?

Fine with me if they dismantle it all except for

BBC radio 4

I'd pay for that.

How come there isn't yet

European GCHQ-thingie?

That way they could only legally spy on communications

with one receiver/sender outside of the EU.

Maybe authors could supply their books to Amazon one page at a time.

Then if it gets read enough they supply the next page.

Oops I just reinvented blog posts

And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Miketz#Fourth_reading_.E2.80.94_Genesis_41:53.E2.80.9342:18

The article says:

Supermassive black holes can only shine as quasars if there is gas for them to swallow, and an environment that is gas rich could provide favorable conditions for fueling quasars.

So they may be more quasar out there that are not shining - as they are out of gas.

Trouble with automatic translation: they present only the most popular result. If you use an uncommon idiom, for dramatic effect, it is almost bound to spoil your party. You are thus reduced to newspeak just to communicate - not just a language barrier also a cultural barrier.

See the Edinburgh Prof explain it all better than me here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UVgFjJeFGY&t=26m3s

just another face on the pillow case for a Butterfly collector

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9Whn2eQGSM

Paul Weller, Jam

Doh,

Earth & Moon

we are talking

Chalk and Cheese here

“People don't alter history any more than birds alter the sky, they just make brief patterns in it.”

A handful of pixels:

... some corner of a Martian field / That is for ever England.

http://www.bartleby.com/103/149.html

Some script kiddies weren't born when this bug began life.

Don't you just love the Occam's Eraser that is the Italian justice system.

Not.

Even the judges are ignorant of what Karl Popper told them.

Not only that, they take years to delay decisions so their lawyer mates

can rake it in. Banana justice banana ...

Feathers

Flight

Icarus

WH Auden

In Breughel’s Icarus, for instance: how everything turns away

Quite leisurely from the disaster; the ploughman may

Have heard the splash, the forsaken cry,

But for him it was not an important failure; the sun shone

As it had to on the white legs disappearing into the green

Water; and the expensive delicate ship that must have seen

Something amazing, a boy falling out of the sky,

had somewhere to get to and sailed calmly on.

10 in roman numbers is XP with the P extracted

Let's not compare Apples and Orange

The latter's Watch is already a Clockword Orange

Boom boom.

iPlayer from overseas - harder

Since Jan/Feb BBC iPlayer has black listed known TOR exit nodes in the UK - so you can't watch Dr Who from overseas using TOR (not TOR friendly anyways).

But it shows how they've smartened/tighten up.

Some paid Proxy service/VPNs are blocked too - I've heard.

Bear Tunnel worked for me though last week.

Elephant in the room: browsers on smart phones.

Executive Order 12333

that;s my new password

thanks Ron

Normally these weird poorly explained outages

are due to installation of NSA friendly backdoors.

But why would they be interested in what we are

watching listening to?