I’ve just gotten back from a wonderful long holiday near Plett in the Garden Route. It was a wonderful time to spend laying about, far away from my phone, my watch and my laptop. Absolutely great!
It’s given me some time to reflect on a great many thing, most of which I hope to explore […]
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This year, the Summer Olympics are going to be taking place in Beijing, a pageant for China to really step out on the World’s stage, as a major nation in ever aspect besides industrial, namely as a global cultural and sporting presence.
This amidst crackdowns in Tibet, continued human rights abuses, and major limitations on […]
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I’ve just watched an interesting amalgam of conspiracy theories, in the form of the pseudo-documentary “Zeitgeist: The Movie” (Not to be confused with American Zeitgeist).
I’m not going to go into length about the movie now, I’m sure I’ll have something to say about it in the future. But it did get me to thinking […]
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Trapido on thoughtLeader has looked at the Government’s interest in removing a physical manifestation of the Apartheid regime’s sports era, by taking the Springbok emblem from, the Springboks.
I believe that the Springbok should remain, because I think changing symbols whilst ignoring development and reconciliation on the ground is a complete farce.
But, I think […]
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Something awesome to take a look at is a webtoy called Viscosity:
http://windowseat.ca/viscosity
Proof that some exciting stuff is coming out of the guys at Microsoft’s Live Labs
It was developed by Jeff Weir of Live Labs. It’s in PHP and Flash. So much for Microsofties being closed off to outside tech.
Bookmark to:
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Zuma wants a referendum on the death penalty. Or rather, he wouldn’t be opposed to the people getting to make a decision on such a thing. He’s opening the door to direct democracy on critical issues which his party has belligerently made on behalf of the people as part of its ‘mandate’ in the last […]
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The Blogosphere is no doubt about to light up like a 10 MW bulb over the brutal Stellenbosch police raids (aka how the SAPS treats shabeen patrons during and AFTER Apartheid)
I went to Stellenbosch, I lived there for 4 years, I loved and lived in Bohemia for large portions of my student life; and saw […]
Filed under: Commentary, Corruption, Crime, Ideas, Law, Politics, Society, ethics by Andrew la Grange
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Ivo Vegter on ThoughtLeader is chatting about the fact that most house robbers commit approx. 100 robberies before they are caught; that in South Africa there are approx. 30-40 000 criminals in South Africa, not much larger than the per capita rates of other countries.
Before I touch on his proposals vis-a-vis private policing. If […]
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Tonight, I sat down with an old foe. My final engineering maths text book, a book covering a smattering of typical second year maths, namely ODE (ordinary differential equations), vector calculus, and some stuff on Fourier transforms. Some light Thursday night reading.
This was the text book for subject which I got a predicate of […]
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Last night I went to watch Sweeney Todd with my brother and my sister, for her birthday. Thinking what woman could resist a Johnny Depp movie I ended up feeling pretty guilty as she looked away for large swathes of the movie.
That said, if you can get past the classic Burtonesque macarbe setting, the movie […]
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Christi van der Westhuizen has asked on thought leader, “you can take Afrikaners out of Apartheid, but can you take Apartheid out of Afrikaners”. She starts the article with the necessary disclaimer that this statement could also apply to English speakers and does; but I find it interesting that she doesn’t just replace the word […]
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In California, a state with a domestic partnership law which allows for all the rights and responsibilities of marriage for same sex partnerships, the Supreme Court of that state is hearing a case which tests the State Constitution regarding the label of marriage.
The question I find is a moot one. I understand that gay […]
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In a Post-James Frey world, the author who wrote the former-Oprah-Book-Club supposedly autobiographical novel “A Million Little Pieces”, book editors need to be truly careful about what they believe from their supposedly raw writers of autobiograhy. The New York Times today is looking at another case of made up street violence and troubled childhood, “Love […]
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Our world seems to be shrinking, as we have to spend more of our times in constant exchange of ideas, people, wealth, language and culture due to the unstoppable forces of globalisation.
But one stretch of our world seems to be caught in an interminable struggle over a scarce resource; namely the land of Israel/Palestine. […]
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I’m a Catholic, and for a myriad of reasons Catholics give up ’something for lent’. Why we do this delves into Jesus, his 40 days before he began his ministry and a whole lot of other dogmatic and traditional aspects of my life which aren’t really part of this blog, and aren’t really interesting unless […]
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