nourishing obscurity

Don’t worry, I’m not going to make any reference to earthquakes or Aum Shinrikyo or to any other related matter.

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The problem with the junk sail, which is otherwise wonderful for cruising, is its flatness. This is where lo-tech is sometimes better than hi-tech.  With modern sailcloth and super-smooth surfaces, that flatness will result in close to no lift, which makes upwind work near impossible. The Chinese didn’t exactly overcome this technically but by default.  [...]

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Cherie brought up an interesting point: We should mention the aggressive arrogant guys with or without mobile phones who think they own the road…. An arrogant ‘male’ p***k overtaking when there is no room, expecting oncoming cars to break so he could get in safely…. Like the oncoming vehicle that did that to me when [...]

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I’m just going to reprint this in its entirety because anything I added would not add to it: The aptly named Sub Specie has fallen for a common legend believed by many of the half-educated and historically illiterate: “If it weren’t for the goddamn Muslims, we wouldn’t have great ancient literature!!! They preserved it for [...]

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The Brucefoil is designed to be used in place of a pontoon or ama and so, on a trimaran, you’d save so much weight. The principle is roughly the same as the hydrofoil, except that you don’t want the boat to lift out of the water entirely but for what would have been the ama [...]

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Post-PoMo: Thus, if modernists like Picasso and Cézanne focused on design, hierarchy, mastery, the one-off, then postmodernists, such as Andy Warhol and Willem de Kooning, were concerned with collage, chance, anarchy, repetition. If modernists such as Virginia Woolf relished depth and metaphysics, then postmodernists such as Martin Amis favoured surface and irony.

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Feminism at its core today is radical – it is not pro-family, not pro-choice and it is anti-male. What is the result of the agenda – mass confusion. Many men and women don’t really know waht it is to be their gender. I mean, how do you define it any more?

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These craft were originally developed by the Soviet Union as very high-speed military transports, and were based mostly on the shores of the Caspian Sea and Black Sea. The largest had max take-off weight over 544 tonnes. About 120 ekranoplans (A-90 Orlyonok class) were initially planned to enter military service in the Soviet Navy.

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In this episode, Christy goes into her own experiences in various jobs she was in and it’s the episode where she gets angriest.  It’s also the episode where I get angriest as well and makes me wish to bring every one of these ideologues to trial for treason to our nation. Kezia Noble and PUA [...]

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American Thinker: Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg recently announced that New York City would spend nearly $130 million dollars over three years to help the city’ 315,000 young blacks and Hispanics who are undereducated, incarcerated and unemployed. Bloomberg himself would pay $30 million, George Soros another $30 million with the city financing the balance. The ambitious [...]

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Founder and former director Kate Bleasdale If you’re going to do this sort of thing … Two of Australia’s biggest banks have lost as much as $150 million on a loan gone bad within weeks of it being approved. National Australia Bank (NAB) and Commonwealth Bank face questions over their international business credentials after a [...]

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