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Head in the Clouds 2

May

2013

They call it progress: “Just a year after launching its $50-per-month plan, Adobe has made its Creative Cloud the only way to get the new versions of its full software suite. Customers “overwhelmingly” prefer it.” CNET They must be talking to the wrong customers, as of writing I can’t seem to find a single person ...

Myth of the Flat Earth 7

Apr

2013

Wikipedia is finally catching up at last. Myth of the Flat Earth. “Since the early 20th century, a number of books and articles have documented the flat earth error as one of a number of widespread misconceptions in popular views of the Middle Ages. The misconception has had no currency in historical scholarship since at ...

The Game is the Game 8

Jan

2013

So, you’re the head of a major corporation -let’s call it EnormoTech Inc. You’ve had a good run -as far as business longevity goes- you’ve been a player for twice the average lifespan of a top-500 UK company, therefore you’ve just hit 25 years of age. Success came when you were young and hungry; now ...

WGII AR5 Gate

Jan

2013

Found on the Net: http://wg2ar5gate.wordpress.com/ Handy link to all the WGII AR5 ‘secret santa’ files. “The purpose of this blog is to provide easy access to a plain text dump of the WGII AR5 Chapters, currently without any graphics. This will allow an easy opportunity to copy,cut, paste or search as required without the hassle ...

New Age, New Blog 6

Dec

2012

Time for a little spring cleaning before the EOTW. Keep calm etc . .

More on Man 1

Nov

2012

‘For very truth, I am not fully determined with myself whether I will put forth my book or no. For the natures of men be so divers, the fantasies of some so wayward, their minds so unkind, their judgments so corrupt that they which lead a merry and jocund life following their own sensual pleasures ...

BBC Unbiased = Wrong 3

Nov

2012

By Motm Every day we are bombarded by adverts, hoardings, commercial breaks, product placements ,Google and online cookies to buy the latest things or follow the latest diet or medical advice. Add to all this the political propaganda not just from government but local councils and NGO’s etc. ALL telling us they know best and ...

Perplicatus 5

Oct

2012

The first two paragraphs of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus becomes this via Google translate into Latin: Heraclitus Ephesius (Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Ἐφέσιος-Hērákleitos ho Ephésios; c. DXXXV – c. CDLXXV BCE), fuit pre-Socraticis philosophus Graecus, oriundus de Graeca urbs Ephesum, loniam, orae Asia Minorum. Ipse fuit de insignes patres sui. Pauca nota sunt de prima vita et doctrina, ...

Too Big to Fail 8

Apr

2012

Too Big to Fail — again Again and AGAIN By Motm As we get close to the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic on 15th April 2012 there have been a number of programs related to that sad event. However a television program on April 1st was interesting since it examined what had ...

Useful Innocents 38

Mar

2012

Many years ago, Austrian-American economist Ludwig Von Mises coined the term “useful innocents”; and these words seem highly relevant to the events of the last few days up here. Von Mises claimed the term was used for liberals that von Mises described as “confused and misguided sympathizers” in his 1947 work ‘Planned Chaos.’ Unbeknownst to ...