Linklog. Read my antennæ.

The Olympics:

Seven years of hype.
Two weeks of disappointment.
Thirty years of taxes.

Vancouver, we are the best place on earth for something, especially if that something is thinking that we are the best place on earth

prelapsarian • \pree-lap-SAIR-ee-un\:
characteristic of or belonging to the time or state before the fall of humankind

‘Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you’ll be surprised at how little you have.’ —Ernest Haskins

dragoon • \druh-GOON\ • verb 1 : to subjugate or persecute by harsh use of troops *2 : to force into submission or compliance especially by violent measures

Specific countermeasures don’t help against these attacks. None of the high-priced countermeasures that defend against specific tactics and specific targets made, or would have made, any difference: photo ID checks, confiscating liquids at airports, fingerprinting foreigners at the border, bag screening on public transportation, anything. Even metal detectors and threat warnings didn’t do any good:

Canada has been dying for decades after its peak in 1970s and now the recession in the States is just making it dead.

Duesberg: The NIH itself ran a two-year investigation of Gallo’s HIV claim, and they couldn’t come up with any convincing evidence that he came up with it on his own.