Picture Absurdistan: an oil-rich country ruled by despots, giving the innocent masses an illusion of choice, then yanking away that illusion with spurious vote-counting and obvious statistical fabrications. The innocent masses revolt and the authoritarian rulers send in their oil-fed ticks and imported mercenaries to subdue the rabble, how dare they rebel! Don’t they know [...]

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So Feynman is a bit of a god amongst men (that’s quite a hail, coming from an atheist). And he is not bombastic, or needlessly pedantic. He may not be the formidable wordsmith that Hitchens is, but he is one of the greatest because he keeps it simple, stupid! In any case, he was too [...]

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Boy, was I ever naive. I assumed that a computer on its side would perform just as well as a computer standing straight up. Recently, my motherboard went on the fritz, which meant my computer would only boot up when horizontal. This meant that the hard drives were no longer spinning parallel to the ground, [...]

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I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while. While I was convalescing, I watched two series in their entirety: Deadwood and Rome. Both were excellent, Deadwood’s up first. Deadwood is a historical drama set in the territory of Deadwood in 1876, right before its accession to the Union. You can look up the [...]

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Well, it wasn’t quite Clash of the Titans, but it was close. In all likelihood, a Clash of the Titans for the younger generations who missed the real one. Wednesday night was when Megadeth and Slayer played together in almost two decades. The openers, Suicide Silence and Machinehead were ho hum. Machinehead used to slay, [...]

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Today we’ll examine the Iranian situation in greater detail. After discussions with my friends, it seems we’ve reached a consensus. A fairly obvious one but one that the protestors have to realize and act on, fast, or else all this momentum will have been for naught. The real danger is that all this leads to [...]

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The Iranian election debacle is in full swing now. The blogosphere and twitfeeds (yes, there is a reason they’re called that) are full of rumours, conjectures, damned lies and a smattering of facts. Thanks to a large expatriate Iranian community at SFU, I’ve been kept abreast of all the events. There isn’t much they can [...]

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