The Sane List

Tuesday, June 29, 2004

The following text was written in lemon juice...

Yesterday, on the spur of the moment I got off at Camden, and walked home along the canal (regents). It took about 40 minutes, about 30 of which I was completely lost.

I mean I knew interlectually, that regents canal passes _under_ islington, so if I followed it long enough, eventually I would get home.

But I still felt lost.
How is it that we can know one thing, and feel another. And is belief just giving into the feeling and ignoring the knowing?

I think there should be another word, one which differentiates between believing that which you know to be true and believing that which you feel to be true.
Maybe other languages have such a word.
The French have libre and gratis, which mean quite different things, where as English has only free.

Monday, June 28, 2004

B A N K S Y

Here's an idea...

I'm going to start a company that lets potential parents select the sex of their child.
The company wont actually do anything, except charge the parents £1000, and send them a pack of 'specially treated' M&Ms.
And my company willguaranteee that if the Treatment doesn't work, they get their money back.
I mean its bound to work half the time right?

Thursday, June 10, 2004

Avoiding angles

A Ministry of Defence spokesman said naval designers have known for a long time that radar signatures depend on the angles involved.

He said: "The trick is to avoid right angles, which reflect radar right back.

"We use a secret angle on our Type 23 frigates which enables our ships to reduce their radar signature to an absolute minimum."

John Fyall, of the Defence Procurement Agency, said: "Our new Type 45 destroyers will use much of this technology to reduce their radar signatures.
-BBC website

Wednesday, June 09, 2004

The chewbacca defense.

According to [recording industry], file sharing is a major cause for falling album sales across the globe.
The Tzotziles people of the Chiapas region of Mexico believe that modern cameras can capture and steal their souls.
-The Register