About the gamblers and the pushers and the geeks
About the crack and smack and whack that hits the streets
About the welfare of all you boys and girls
About you people cause we're out to save the world

We Care a Lot - Faith No More

A worried man with a worried mind...

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside
And it is ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

The times they are a changin' - Bob Dylan

Law –noun;

1. The principles and regulations established in a community by some authority and applicable to its people, whether in the form of legislation or of custom and policies recognized and enforced by judicial decision.

The First Law of Thermodynamics;

The increase in the internal energy of a thermodynamic system is equal to the amount of heat energy added to the system minus the work done by the system on the surroundings.

The Times article

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Steven Krivit from the New Energy Times interviews Steorn's CEO Sean McCarthy

Google News search for 'Energy'

Caesars praying for rain,
Lightning flashes around,
The prophet is screaming,
His hand hits the ground

You should hear the warning,
If you read the signs,
Play with your own life,
But don't play with mine

The Shape of Things to Come - The Headboys

I see a clinic full of cynics
Who want to twist the peoples' wrist
They're watching every move we make
We're all included on the list

The lunatics have taken over the asylum - The Fun Boy Three

"Ya Canna Change the Laws of Physics"

- Scotty

Irish technology company Steorn recently took out a full page advertisement in The Economist saying that they had "developed a technology that produces free, clean and constant energy."

Sean McCarthy, CEO of Steorn, commented: “During the years of its development, our technology has been validated by various independent scientists and engineers. We are now seeking twelve of the most qualified and most cynical from the world’s scientific community to form an independent jury, test the technology in independent laboratories and publish their findings.

“We are under no illusions that there will be a lot of cynicism out there about our proposition, as it currently challenges one of the basic principles of physics. However, the implications of our technology go far beyond scientific curiosity: addressing many urgent global needs including security of energy supply and zero emission energy production. In order for these benefits to be achieved, we need the public validation and endorsement of the scientific community”.

Steorn develops free energy technology and issues challenge to the global scientific community

Five-minute overview video

60 Minutes interview with Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it"

- Aristotle

"For a long time there has been a dreadful predictability of thinking on the Left, a lack of originality that means a thousand monkeys hammering away at a thousand typewriters could very quickly produce a whole issue of Green Left Weekly without even stopping for an expensive banana"

John Birmingham: Righteous lefties lose out on the laughs

"Yes, but the reality is the pan-Islamist identity is already on the rise in the Middle East. This is in a way Israel's first non-Arab war. It's not a war between Israel and Arabs. It's a war between Israel and Persian proxies and not just the Shiites in Lebanon, but Sunni young men in Jordan and Sunni young men in Egypt have decided that in fact the pan-Islamist identity promoted by Tehran - President Ahmadinejad is the new strong horse of the region, as Osama bin Laden put it - that that is actually more appealing to them. In effect, they already have the problem. They're already at war with this Islamist identity. I don't believe, by the way, that is the regime that would be the successor regime in Damascus, but it is still worth taking on"

Mark Steyn on Lateline 09/08/2006

Today in parliament prime minister John Howard said that he thought democracy in Afghanistan was becoming more 'deeply rooted'

Hope it doesn't get any more rooted