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It can be argued some fantasy ecology is in the realm of the fundamentally bizarre. So let's try to fix it a bit.

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Oh joy. Serbia is going into a new election in the wake of the Kosovo independence.

I'm not sure the Serbs will do the smart thing here, given that we had a decade of dubious cooperation before Kosovo went independent. Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if Serbia had gone more pro-EU, if they had managed to keep Kosovo and maybe even the ( Read more... )

James Lovelock, Gaia prophet interviewed by The Guardian, believes 80% of the population of Earth will be wiped out by 2100. ( I don't expect to live to age 128 either) And that immense disaster is unavoidable, much of the Earth will go uninhabitable and the Island of Britain as a lifeboat flooded by potential refugees chewing Quorn. Sure, it is ( Read more... )

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Mostly for heron61 who is one of those optimistic people, I found this neat picture (and article, though it is in contemporary North-East Germanic) about Nokia's contribution to some sort of exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in NY, cell phones in 2018 based on Nokia's research division's work in nanoscale and marketing. Self-cleaning, flexible and ( Read more... )

In part as a result of an earlier discussion on this LJ, angry_geologist have started to create a list of markers/indicators the person you communicate with is, let's say "unorthodox in the sanity department". You know, rants about Eurabia, how bar codes are predicted in The Book of Revelation, and how the 13th century never existed.

The list is here.