Category: Misc Thoughts

What does ‘the Media’ have to do with chicken?

After a spate of protests world wide over an anti-moslem film, the arguments ran hot and fast at work, and at the local club. Most people couldn’t understand how someone could protest so hard over a film they hadn’t seen, based entirely on what someone else told them about it.  Funny, because I see a Read More

Success, Fame, Bell Curves and Sine Waves

I recently signed up to do a course in online marketing, called the ‘Thirty Day Challenge‘. In it, I had to research a niche, then start building a content-based blog around it. Considering the fun I’d been having finding way out options to annoy my car-loving boyfriend, I chose the niche “alternative vehicles” and set Read More

Deep Thought Day: “Standard Model” and the search for mass

I’ve just finished watching a documentary on SBS called the Six Billion Dollar Experiment. I’m fascinated by all things scientific, especially cutting edge and where the search currently lies in a field, so I couldn’t miss this one. What really got me, though, was that despite having early on in the show made the link Read More

I’m not the only one thinking this way…

Just found a video by a professor of cultural anthropology talking about his view of how the web is changing us, and we’re changing the web. I couldn’t blink it was that riveting. Connecting to the internet means you’ve already taken the red pill.Welcome to the machine. Read More