Archive for May, 2007

left and right

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Perhaps you’ve met people quoting some friend of a friend who read a book (who else?) that said if you were not a leftist when young, then your heart failed you, but if you’re not a rightist when you’re of age, then your brain failed you.
Now, I’d dare a new saying (in fact surely it’s […]

now

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Dweller At The Threshold - After logic fail from Ouroborus (2001). Wish you were there.

Fais que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

Why essays? Why libraries?
I was looking for “fait que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit”, a Vangelis artwork (104 hits on Google), and guess what, I found it on Wallmart’s website. Yes, Wallmart can preserve history too. Yes, drones, this is customer driven history. A search for site:.fr “fait que ton rêve soit […]

Financial Times on the fears of France

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

There’s an article, written yesterday in Financial Times, pondering over Ségolène Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy and France’s fears of international competition and globalisation. It is part of a long series of irritating articles writing on nothing but giving an impression of general knowledge on world issues.
Let’s take for example, globalisation. The newspaper says about both […]