Computer Games Censured For Reflecting The “Dark Side Of Warfare”
Two Swiss human rights organisations, Trial and Pro Juventute, have criticised computer games featuring warfare for not requiring players to adhere to international war legislation. Inspired I am sure by the recent outcry over Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 requiring players to massacre civilians in order to get support for anti-terrorism measures(or some such thing). The bee that is apparently rattling around in these folks bonnet is that by allowing players to carry out what would constitute war crimes without getting punished does not reflect reality. Really? (NSFW) (more…)
Lucio – Showing Sunday 22nd
Tomorrow we will again be showing an anarchist inspired film. This month it’s Lucio the story of Spanish anarchist bricklayer and bank robber Lucio Uturbia.
Sunday 22nd November, 7.30pm, Upstairs Lounge, Dow’s Bar, 9 Dundas Street (more…)
Rebel Without A God – The Anti-Authoritarian Attributes Of Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Rebel Without a God
By David Graeber
Some years ago, an anarchist calling himself E.G. Eccarius wrote a novel, The Last Days of Jesus Christ, Vampire. Admittedly Buffy the Vampire Slayer, TV cult sensation, does not aspire to quite this level of subversiveness. But there are times when it comes close. It’s also quite possibly the best show on television. (more…)
Ghouls The Lot Of You
Spread all across the front cover of the papers this morning was the cherubic face of a we blonde boy. What’s I thought? Upon closer inspection it turned out to be an image of the poor little mite known as Baby P. It was only upon seeing this picture that hit home the bleakness of the situation.
By this I do not mean the horror inflicted upon this small child but the way the media is in a feeding frenzy of mutual masturbation over the whole thing.
Ask yourselves this, what purpose does it serve to have this little boy face splashed all over the papers. A final indignity served up in the names of selling a few more issues of a paper. They would not of course be doing this were there not a market for this and people lapping it up by a million rubberneckers ogling the poor boys corpse.
Shame on you all.
Ghouls.
Baader-Meinhof Komplex
The last film review I wrote was because a film, the Happening, incensed me so greatly that I had to warn people against wasting valuable bandwidth downloading let alone paying for! This time round however a film has impressed me so much I would like to recommend it to all ten people who read this blog 
OK I know there’s a lot more of you than that! (more…)
When Youtube Imitates XKCD
And now Youtube features a button that makes Stephen Hawking read your comment back to you so that you can see what a fucking moron you are! WAHEY!
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WH Davies he was the boy wasn’t he. Dossed about all his life, shoplifted, jumped trains, wrote poetry. Just like me in my younger days, with the exception that his poetry was actually good and mine sucked monkey balls.
Anyhoo, here’s a sample or two of his poetry.
For starters here’s his most famous poem Leisure.
WHAT is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare?—
No time to stand beneath the boughs,
And stare as long as sheep and cows:
No time to see, when woods we pass,
Where squirrels hide their nuts in grass:
No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night:
No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance:
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began?
A poor life this if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare.
Corker or what?
Then we have, of a slightly more melancholy air, The Richest Stones
My wandering days have run their course,
And Age is in my flesh and bones:
Of all the temples, domes, and towers,
Where have I found the richest stones?
The little house where I was born,
And where my early childhood lies,
Was built with solid blocks of gold,
And all its walls had diamond eyes.
And yers a link to his collection Foliage at Project Gutenburg.
The Happening (A Film Review)
It’s not often that a cinematic work will stir my blood enough for me to volunteer comment which goes to show how I feel after having sat through two hours or so of M Night Syalaman’s latest opus ‘The happening’. Not in many years has a film aroused such bile in my gut as this steaming pile of monkey semen.
I implore each and every one of you reading this to avoid this film like a dose of the clap. The only good thing about this movie is that if you really hate someone you can recommend it highly to them.
the lot revolves around plants emitting a pheromone that incites humans to kill themselves. This I did not have a problem with. Suspending ones disbelief is all well and good when enjoying a work of fiction. What really incensed me however was the films total disregard for the world of science.
Making up science to fuel a story is great but twisting the language of science in a manner that would bwefit the most dishonest of creationists is vile.
I am more than likely over reacting but I really, really hate it when a person says that a theory is ‘just an idea’ or that ‘there are things we could never understand’ and when the person saying this is supposed to be a science teacher it just beggars belief!
In my opinion the whole reason behind this constant pushing of the idea there are things that science will never explain is just soft creationist bullshit using the film as a vehicle of social persuasion. Trying to make it seem as ‘common sense’ that science can not explain everything or that a theory is ‘just an idea’.
On top of that it’s a shit film. Terrible script, shite acting and an appalling concept.
PS A theory is not just an idea. A theory is proven to the maximum extent it can be given the current level of technology and scientific understanding.
An idea is a hypothesis. A hypothesis is not however pulled out of thin air. It is arrived at by careful observation and becomes a theory through experimentation proving it to be as true as it can be.
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