Name: Chromatius
Dateline: London, UK
Weblog: chromatius.blogspot.com [RSS]
Articles: 31
First Published: Thursday, October 27, 2005
Last Published: Tuesday, August 1, 2006
Currently listing articles 31-1:
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Welcome to the Arab Street— It's not only venal Arab leaderships who ignore their peoples in service to corporate, American and Israeli interests.
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Software Development and Mimesis— Software development is a very strange meeting point of diverse ideas, some better suited to literature, others to magic.
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A Look At The Swamp Fox, Tony Joe White— A break from all this misery and murder, doom and gloom... and one of the few things that lightens my soul is music.
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Evolution Does Not Equal Progress (Part 2)— The theory of adaptive evolution suggests that the interests of the species and individual are diametrically and violently opposed.
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CD Review: Pure Religion and Bad Company— I've been on a bit of a musical journey these last couple of years.
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Evolution Does Not Equal Progress— A common misunderstanding of evolutionary theory founders on misunderstanding of the word 'fittest.'
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Reading, Reason, and the Politics of Belief
— If all our reading is tendentious, how can we change minds?
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The Jericho Prison Assault: Jack Straw's Comedy Turn— Close reading: There's so much to read in that little chuckle and raised eyebrow.
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English Premier League: Chelsea v. the Baggies— Football, referees, corruption and journalism thoughts after yesterday's Chelsea-West Bromwich Albion contest.
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Just Say No to NATO
— European foreign policy is being hijacked by unelected individuals. Surprise.
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Satire: Coding In The Belly Of The Beast— A tale of the rational allocation of resources under modern capitalism.
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Home Espresso Madness— Help, I'm becoming a coffee geek with a Quickmill Andreja Premium and a Mazzer Mini.
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Dust: A Ubiquitous Surveillance Technology— Many years ago I started telling anyone who'd stand still long enough about dust. This was my idea for a ubiquitous surveillance technology that I
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The Politics of Conviction and the Responsibilities of Citizenship— What are the responsibilites of citizenship? For example, is there a responsibility to consider issues of life and death in a fair and balanced way
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Another Twist to the Climate Change Story— One simple fact is constantly ignored by climate change skepticism that dominates official thinking in America.
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Politicans & War Crimes: Why Do We Allow This?
— One one level, it all comes down to one question: what would you exchange for your child's life?
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History & Myth— In the study of history, what do we mean by a political or national 'myth'?
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Politics, Eugenics and Evolution— Political and media discourse is having a profound effect on us at an evolutionary level - the future human race is being moulded by the
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Stolen Elections and Political Legitimacy— Since his big, fairly poorly covered constitutional speech, I've been thinking a little about Al Gore.
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Mankind Has Always Dreamed of Destroying the Sun— A few comments on developing the means to destroy the sun at the push of a button, as outlined in Dave Sim's Church and State,
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Prurience, the Media and the Soham Murders— Reflections on that dark hunger for news stories of sexual violence and sex crimes, especially involving minors or young girls.
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You're Part of the Collective Now— A couple of comments on politics and eusociality inspired by reading Stephen Baxter's Coalescent.
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Repetition, Bricolage, and Blogging in the Information Age— How the ability to record broadcast media has changed our relationship to knowledge and the world.
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The Muslim Cartoon "Controversy"— Why have they picked this moment to anger millions of Muslims in the name of "freedom of speech"?
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Narnia and Christian Propaganda— Opportunist proselytising undermines the Narnia stories' usefulness as propaganda.
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"Black Smokers"— Black smokers, those strange lightless ecosystems, are a pretty good metaphor for our 'western' consumer capitalist societies...
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The Compulsion to Witness— ...
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Bush & Blair: The Deceptive Allure Of Schadenfreude— We're at a moment where politicians' credibility falls away and it's possible to feel that some progress is being made...
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Stolen Futures— One of the standard tropes of modern political propaganda is the 'what would have happened' line.
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From Blair, A Brief Lesson In Political Rhetoric— Security forces may have thwarted two further attacks - note that 'may'. Well, they may have done anything, or nothing.
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Book Review: The Emperor by Rysard Kapuscinski— ...
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