tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post1772106151090688016..comments2024-03-16T21:03:05.280+13:00Comments on Bat, Bean, Beam: Liveblogging the Apocalypse (5): Gram-NegativeGiovanni Tisohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-50799526203771764682010-08-28T11:14:26.701+12:002010-08-28T11:14:26.701+12:00Very interesting as usual.
To take it a bit furth...Very interesting as usual.<br /><br />To take it a bit further, the overhype of these kind of reports, be it the world ending because of a leak in the Mexican Gulf or the Swine Flu, may end up desensitizing the general public from a possible real threat. When I read about the NDM-1, I thought that it was just the apocalypse flavour of the year and put it in the back of my brain, behind the Taramochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10306494919275797616noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-39046459844140092062010-08-27T18:37:14.582+12:002010-08-27T18:37:14.582+12:00This is a smart blog, which is why it is disappoin...<i>This is a smart blog, which is why it is disappointing to read here that the ancient Mayas prophesied the end of the world in 2012.</i><br /><br />Yes, sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that they actually did - just linking back to past musings on the idiocy of Emmerich's film. Well worth reiterating though.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-13464602803646527812010-08-27T18:32:22.491+12:002010-08-27T18:32:22.491+12:00This is a smart blog, which is why it is disappoin...This is a smart blog, which is why it is disappointing to read here that the ancient Mayas prophesied the end of the world in 2012. They did not. Certainly, with the deluge of nonsense on this issue, it is difficult to find discussions of this by credible experts. <br /><br />But this site has some decent debunking:<br />http://www.2012hoax.org/<br /><br />For a take from someone who can read giottonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-9565945256873498832010-08-25T19:07:24.219+12:002010-08-25T19:07:24.219+12:00I have to say that all this is fascinating to me. ...I have to say that all this is fascinating to me. I grew up in the shadow of an antichrist apocalypse, with books, pamphlets and meetings to explain the ways in which the present would suddenly end. The European Union, the Rockefellers, EFTPOS, and HIV/AIDS were all part of unknown plans.<br /><br />I'm not yet able to disentangle those. Again, there are a few contexts, but the hard part is George Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-8886744763113400662010-08-25T18:58:23.682+12:002010-08-25T18:58:23.682+12:00*Squee!**Squee!*Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-31056852065029616562010-08-25T18:04:09.121+12:002010-08-25T18:04:09.121+12:00Plangent or strident, the laughter of Foucault,
h...Plangent or strident, the laughter of Foucault,<br /><br />heard late at night from the after-hours exit.<br /><br />Such a perfect storm, the "gay cancer" story<br /><br />it was too good a tale to belie the truth.<br /><br /><br />Book Foucault's ghost a direct flight to Asia;<br /><br />put him down for a tummy tuck and lipo, no extra.<br /><br />The world brought down by petty Megan Claytonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03584562106579704547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-4515892938883461322010-08-24T18:29:16.361+12:002010-08-24T18:29:16.361+12:00Prince Charles of the United Kingdom's appeal ...<i>Prince Charles of the United Kingdom's appeal to one hundred months might sound ridiculous. But it isn't his - he has merely recycled it from the One Hundred Months campaign.</i><br /><br />He actually brought it forward by about eight months, in order not to have to start a 92-month campaign I presume. And I think we can agree that that is <i>actually</i> ridiculous. But of course I Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-90984791253690797032010-08-24T18:06:28.800+12:002010-08-24T18:06:28.800+12:00Well, it was 100 months.
We now have 52776 hours...Well, it was 100 months. <br /><br />We now have 52776 hours until the end of the [safe] world.<br />http://www.onehundredmonths.org/George Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-10392724075299051002010-08-24T18:03:46.842+12:002010-08-24T18:03:46.842+12:00Prince Charles of the United Kingdom's appeal ...Prince Charles of the United Kingdom's appeal to one hundred months might sound ridiculous. But it isn't his - he has merely recycled it from the One Hundred Months campaign. Their claim is that the world has approximately 8 years in which to start reducing emissions before more than 2 degrees of climate change is inevitable. <br /><br />Climate campaigners always have to find a space George Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-28705894638143586692010-08-24T10:03:11.879+12:002010-08-24T10:03:11.879+12:00I want to say stuff, there's so much depth of ...I want to say stuff, there's so much depth of thinking, so I just say to you that I am reading and thinking and enjoying.<br /><br />eptiorig; the Ruler of all Rigs, the one that in the darkness binds them.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04424066726955708314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-62582351746924213812010-08-24T08:25:42.760+12:002010-08-24T08:25:42.760+12:00May there be many more, and by better writers. I a...May there be many more, and by better writers. I actually meant to engage with your post but it didn't come off at all, regrettably. Hopefully by the next instalment.Giovanni Tisohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10618534731338616708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9057225441101183394.post-59002690838849277552010-08-24T08:03:22.164+12:002010-08-24T08:03:22.164+12:00Never been an epigraph before, so thanks for the e...Never been an epigraph before, so thanks for the experience.<br /><br />Word Verification: <b>neshaph</b>, an ancient Egyptian bandage of coarse texture and unruly temperament, used to ensure that enemies on their way to the Land of the Dead had an itchy time of it.Philiphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18076353733931722397noreply@blogger.com