Always on the lookout for a better blog editor, this is a Performancing for Firefox experiment. So far, so good.

The last thing we need is more confidence. Everything written, everything read, is nothing less than a hypothesis, a conjecture. Truth has eluded us with the persistence of a hermit, and every Being has proved nothing but it’s own antipole. The ever populist derision of ideology is a mere plume from the blackhole of the [...]

It’s stories like this that get me going in the morning: Testing Drugs on India’s Poor. Whenever I read something unnerving about the pharmaceutical industry, the same names keep coming up: Pfizer, Eli Lilly, GlaxoSmithKline. Why are these companies trying so hard to look like the world’s worst scumbags?

I wonder if the biggest news of the day will get picked up by the mainstream press. One by one, South American countries are shedding the yoke. This is Corporate America’s worst nightmare.

On a related note, Microsoft is hell-bent on bringing Big Brother into your home. The problem with a centralized monitoring system, like the 1984 book has, is that it is logistically nearly impossible to execute and maintain. Historically, the best systems for monitoring citizens, as demonstrated by the SS and Stasi, were decentralized. It was [...]

Bill Gates gives a small percentage of his vast fortune to Africa. The rest is invested in Big Pharma, who is slowly killing Africa by denying it the rights to produce cheap medicine. Billy himself is doing his share by fighting poor countries to distribute open source software to the poor, on the grounds that [...]

I was watching this video on the new fonts that Microsoft is introducing with Vista, and they’re talking about getting the budget approved by Bill Gates himself, since this was a multi-million project. Bill said no the first two times they tried to sell it. Basically, his argument was that there was no guarantee that [...]

Del.icio.us sold out to Yahoo! Fuck, I really liked del.icio.us. And now it’s time to move on. Within a couple of months:)

According to a BBC article, I’m smack in the middle of one of Europe’s pollution hotspots. Where I live, the air contains large quantities of nitrogen dioxide, formaldehyde, sulphur dioxide, small particles, as well as tropospheric ozone. That doesn’t sound too healthy. It certainly doesn’t sound like a place where I’d like my children to [...]