Discendi et loquendi ratio
Marsilio Ficino to Luca Fabiano, his scribe: greetings. NATURE endows us with many instruments through which we may learn: eyes, ears, noses, taste and touch. But she gave only a single instrument by...
View ArticleStronsay Sock Puppet
Here’s a sock puppet spotted in the wild: And here’s where he claims to work: Ouch. If you need assistance with the term ‘sock puppet’ then google is your friend. I imagine the sockmaster -or...
View ArticleUseful Innocents
Many years ago, Austrian-American economist Ludwig Von Mises coined the term “useful innocents”; and these words seem highly relevant to the events of the last few days up here. Von Mises claimed the...
View ArticleDear Orcadian
Dear Orcadian, I notice that Orkney Media Group have still not made any public statement regarding John Ross Scott’s article on Christophe Watkins in Living Orkney magazine. This despite the refutation...
View ArticleToo Big to Fail
Too Big to Fail — again Again and AGAIN By Motm As we get close to the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic on 15th April 2012 there have been a number of programs related to that sad event....
View ArticlePerplicatus
The first two paragraphs of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclitus becomes this via Google translate into Latin: Heraclitus Ephesius (Ancient Greek: Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Ἐφέσιος-Hērákleitos ho Ephésios; c....
View ArticleBBC Unbiased = Wrong
By Motm Every day we are bombarded by adverts, hoardings, commercial breaks, product placements ,Google and online cookies to buy the latest things or follow the latest diet or medical advice. Add to...
View ArticleMore on Man
‘For very truth, I am not fully determined with myself whether I will put forth my book or no. For the natures of men be so divers, the fantasies of some so wayward, their minds so unkind, their...
View ArticleWGII AR5 Gate
Found on the Net: http://wg2ar5gate.wordpress.com/ Handy link to all the WGII AR5 ‘secret santa’ files. “The purpose of this blog is to provide easy access to a plain text dump of the WGII AR5...
View ArticleThe Game is the Game
So, you’re the head of a major corporation -let’s call it EnormoTech Inc. You’ve had a good run -as far as business longevity goes- you’ve been a player for twice the average lifespan of a top-500 UK...
View ArticleMyth of the Flat Earth
Wikipedia is finally catching up at last. Myth of the Flat Earth. “Since the early 20th century, a number of books and articles have documented the flat earth error as one of a number of widespread...
View ArticleHead in the Clouds
They call it progress: “Just a year after launching its $50-per-month plan, Adobe has made its Creative Cloud the only way to get the new versions of its full software suite. Customers “overwhelmingly”...
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