Michael Greenwell

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. – Aldous Huxley

Monthly Archives: March 2011

Chris Morris – My Wrongs # 8245 – 8249 & 117

Here is a pretty amazing short film by Chris Morris made in 2002. Apparently it is adapted from something in the Blue Jam series.

Choice is Good, Consumption is Good (repost)

Very busy at the moment so here is a little short something from the archives… Choice is Good, Consumption is Good At my brothers graduation the person who made the speech to the the new graduates (I can’t remember who it was) made a speech about the role they would have in making new wealth [...]

An Inkling

I don’t think their attitudes have changed much, do you?  

Saving Lives & Saving Hides

At this precise moment of writing (13.30 – 14/03/2011) there are nuclear engineers risking their lives to keep the situation under control in Japan. These are brave people. They are doing this in the interests primarily of themselves and their families, but also in the long-term interest of everyone. The reports coming out are mixed [...]

Saturday Matinee 14 – Living In The End Times According to Slavoj Zizek

This is most definitelt worth a watch…  

Yuri Gagarin

That would be a happy birthday to Yuri Gagarin the first human being ever to go into space who, by any standards, has to be a hero. I read a biography of him a few years ago of which the name escapes me for the moment.  It was very interesting but seemed to suggest foul [...]

Genial or not?

It is often said that there is a thin line between madness and genius. This is true I suppose, and many of the geniuses that have enlightened us have also had eccentricities that have amused us. It does however, not always hold true in the other direction. There are plenty of people that are straight [...]

Fed Up With Capitals

Got fed up with writing the capitals in the titles of all the articles and I don’t think it looked very good anyway. Therefore have changed the look of it and the capitals on the titles will stop now.

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