Everything comes together, anything falls apart, and everyone dies alone.

Policy makers and forecasters who see a recovery next year are probably lying to boost public confidence, he said. And the crisis will eventually provoke political conflict, albeit not on the scale of a world war, but violent all the same. … because it [the United States] retains safe-haven status, in a global crisis, investors [...]

A metaphor for youth-rage or ..?

Apparently the ATF publishes an irregular newsletter (thanks to Russ Kick for pointing this one out) which contains, among other things, information regarding the theft of explosives within the United States. Makes for quite an interesting pie chart. September 2008 ATF Explosives Industry Newsletter Update: Apparently explosives go missing by the ton, from time to [...]

I love the way that this game rapidly builds a sense of urgency and forces the player to “cooperate by oneself”. It plays like a hive mind experience – give it a try. I wish I could see the look on your face when you get to floor 10.

It’s official: capitalism is monstrous. Try talking about the benefits of free markets and you will be treated like someone promoting the benefits of rape. Honest resentment opens a space for the hope that one day language might regain some of its critical capacity, that it could even begin to describe social realities again. From [...]

Still awake / still listening to the same [link embedded] music / similarity has robbed days of their passage / one day of repetition / insubstantial differentiation / still working on the same database / millions of values all look the same / scrolling by too fast to count / what will this become? I [...]

The frozen remains of two mice injected with the organism that causes plague have not been accounted for seven weeks after being discovered missing at a University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey facility in Newark, the university said Friday. The FBI investigated and determined there was no risk to public health or any [...]

A rather amazing thing happened this week in the often somewhat sorry state of reporting of medical research: a newspaper allowed an author of a scientific paper the chance to correct what he felt were misperceptions in the reporting of his work. [...] Although the article in the Guardian was, as Baron Cohen noted “mostly [...]

Shut the fuck up! Until you man up, you shut the fuck up! You guys wanna be men? Go down there and start fucking beatin’ peoples’ asses! You’re supposed to be Iraqi police, why don’t you try acting like it. You’re sitting around here with your thumb up your ass ’cause you’re too fucking scared [...]