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I just signed up for twitter.

It looks like absolute and total crap.

I'll give it a try anyways. My id is RoadNails.

If you care.

Quote of the day

"There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence; and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism"

John Stuart Mill
On Liberty

He may predate Rock n' Roll, but this guy rocked out hard for your liberty. If he lived in the modern age, I believe he would be hardcore into Ska-Punk, or perhaps skate/thrash metal.

Rock on JSM, you are remembered.

Yongsan Battle ground

My buddy just got jumped in Yongsan by two or three guys in Yongsan market, (the mega - giant electronic's market in Seoul, for those how don't know their Korean shopping districts), in the middle of the day, (1:00pm), on a crowded street. He was standing, waiting for the bus, when a Korean dude, standing nearby with his lady, started mouthing off, "Weigookin Kae sekia, Kai sekia", which translates loosely, (for those of you who don't know your Korean language), as foreigner c**ksucker, or foriegner son of a bitch, depending on your inflection. Just as certain uses of the F word in English can be considered the strongest of expletives, Kae Sekia, a derivitave of Shi-Bal Kaesekia, is the same in Korean. (In fact, eight years ago, this was the second phrase I learned in the Korean language. The first was how to order two drinks politely)

My friend just turned and stared at the guy, having been here long enough to understand their man-child games, when another dude kicked him in the back. Then both dudes started raining blows on them.

My friend, much larger than the two dudes, got up, dummied them both with single blows, looked around, saw himself surrounded by unfriendly faces, and ran for his life.

As the economy in Asia worsens, and the Korean media continues to paint foreigners as the soulless white devils upon whom all your misfortunes are to blame, life in Korea is going to degrade. When the Korean - US FTA fails, which it should, since it is disgustingly one sided for a trade deal, life here is going to get really shitty, really fast, if you're not asian.

This isn't the first time I've lived through this nonsense, it probably won't be the last. If you're living in Seoul, it's time to keep a battle buddy or two close by when you go out, again.

... because it gave them something to do

Read this story and consider this comment near the end

"We started working on it. It was something to do and we just kept at it. When we didn't get caught, we picked our night and just went."


It was something to do. They never thought they would get away with it, but they were so bored with prison life that they went for it anyway. The response of the Saskatchewan government? Build a new, more modern prison. If all it takes is something to do to keep prisoners, perhaps it will have an x-box or two.

X-box in prison? Is that correctional? Is it right to put people who cannot live within the

Serious Science for YOUR weekend

(courtesy of the BBC) The European Space Agency is launching it's Goce satellite to measure minute changes in the Earth's gravity.

Attesting to the sensitivity of the device:

""Imagine a snowflake, which has a fraction of a gram, slowly falling down on to the deck of a supertanker. The acceleration that the supertanker experiences from that snowflake is comparable to the sensitivity of our instrument," he told BBC News."


Enjoy the article here, especially the picture of what the shape of the Earth could really look like:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7935621.stm


article two for today is this one: a self sealing/repairing coating. Applications for this blow my mind apart. Imagine houses which heal themselves!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7939776.stm