Will You Stop Inquiring About the Sex Life of Japanese?
These days, presumably to make up for the shutting down of US panda-cams, the World has taken a keen interest in the reproduction problems of the Japanese people. The last wave started with a cheap...
View ArticleSummer Nostalgia (repost)
Rejoice with me, for the cold days are over! http://unknowngenius.com/mp3s/drDave_Mix_0404.mp3 (celebrating with a mix from 10 years ago) See the full article or leave a comment »
View ArticleEurophobia
Ukip in Britain, Front National in France, and a similar array of smiling europhobic racists and neo-fascists in Denmark, Austria and Hungary… In most cases (except perhaps the UK, who really just...
View ArticleKafka in the Silicon Valley
There’s nothing new in whining about tech monopolies: the companies that enjoy them and the doom that awaits us for foolishly trusting them. At this point, we have all been at either end of a speech on...
View ArticleRant: United Airlines, or the Art of Losing Customers
Airlines tend to be like banks: name any one of them in large-enough company and there is bound to be at least a few people with personal horror stories and imprecations never to use their service....
View ArticleFluctuat Nec Mergitur, by Joann Sfar
Earlier today, French artist Joann Sfar1 published a short series of drawings on the Terrorist attacks that took place in Paris. Because they sum up my feelings much better than any tricolour lighting...
View ArticleWhy the Terrorists win each time…
Sometimes I wonder if I am the last person who remembers the true definition of the word ‘terrorism’, such as it was understood some 15 years ago, before opportunistic politicians set about emptying it...
View Article12 Awe-Inspiring Tips to Make Shitty Clickbait Listicles. Number 5 will make...
Start your title with a number. Include random grandiloquent synonym for “great”. Attach irrelevant but eye-catching stock photo loosely-credited picture nicked from Google Image. Throw a dice, pick a...
View ArticlePunching Nazis: Yay or Nay?
The year is 2017, and voicing your concerns at the idea that vigilantes can just punch people they disagree with, makes you slightly worse than Adolf Hitler. This whole discussion started on Twitter....
View ArticleWhy I will NOT be deleting my Facebook account…
Because that is where I get to hear from all my friends and family scattered around the globe, and none of them are likely to resume yearly postal newsletters, or follow me onto some new experimental...
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