http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/web/home/home/index.htm

I wish I had known about this shit before I wasted all that money on college.

What is it about Beethoven that sounds more industrial than Bach? This is the type of thing I never really noticed.

http://www.ducati.com/en/bikes/my2008/ModelPage.jhtml?family=SportClassic&model=SCGT1000-08

Laura would really fucking kill me but goddamn I want the black and white one.

Stateside, consumers are finally starting to respond to high gas prices--Truck and SUV plants are shutting down, community colleges are swamped with sign-ups for motorcycle lessons. So you'd think oil would start to level out, right? But all the indicators show that prices will continue to rise, despite OPEC increasing supply ( Read more... )

Could somebody tell me why, while our government practically tripped over its own feet to remove the evil Saddam Hussein, the guy who makes Hussein look like Mr. Rogers--who essentially said he would murder anyone that didn't vote for him, only gets "denounced", plzthx ( Read more... )

The Parable of the RatThere is a particular section of landfill, let's say it's in Staten Island for our purposes, though really it's not important where ( Read more... )

The Parable of the Oak SaplingComing across an oak sapling in the path of my walking, I hunched down to investigate it. The roots grew bare and thin in the rocky soil--it craved the moistness of a good forest. The roots were of a spindly yet complex and substantial nature ( Read more... )

The Parable of the Place of a Million Glowing OrbsThere is a place of a million orbs. Each orb glows with the brightness of a million benign suns. the traveler who comes upon the place of a million orbs is at first dazzled by the brilliance of such a place which somehow shimmers with the brightness of millions upon millions of suns. Upon closer ( Read more... )

I have retrieved from the spirit world three parables. I will print them here when the time is right. For now go listen to Xiu Xiu's lastest album which I haven't really heard anybody talk about.

I originally started this journal to write about science and eschatology, so here's a nice doomsday-ish post for you ( Read more... )