Information Superhighway

"Think of the Internet as a highway."

There it is again. Some clueless fool talking about the "Information Superhighway." They don't know didley about the net. It's nothing like a superhighway. That's a rotten metaphor.

Suppose the metaphor ran in the other direction. Suppose the highways were like the net. . .

A highway hundreds of lanes wide. Most with pitfalls for potholes. Privately operated bridges and overpasses. No highway patrol. A couple of rent-a-cops on bicycles with broken whistles. 500 member vigilante posses with nuclear weapons. A minimum of 237 on ramps at every intersection. No signs. Wanna get to Ensenada? Holler out the window at a passing truck to ask directions. Ad hoc traffic laws. Some lanes would vote to make use by a single-occupant-vehicle a capital offense on Monday through Friday between 7:00 and 9:00. Other lanes would just shoot you without a trial for talking on a car phone.

AOL would be a giant diesel-smoking bus with hundreds of ebola victims on board throwing dead wombats and rotten cabbage at the other cars, most of which have been assembled at home from kits. Some are built around 2.5 horsepower lawnmower engines with a top speed of nine miles an hour. Others burn nitrogylcerin and idle at 120.

No license plates. World War II bomber nose art instead. Terrifying paintings of huge teeth or vampire eagles. Bumper mounted machine guns. Flip somebody the finger on this highway and get a white phosphorus grenade up your tailpipe. Flatbed trucks cruise around with anti-aircraft missile batteries to shoot down the traffic helicopter. Little kids on tricycles with squirtguns filled with hydrochloric acid switch lanes without warning.

NO OFFRAMPS. None.

Now that's the way to run an Interstate Highway system.

Author: Russell Nelson

Henley election

For those who haven't been keeping up with the UK news, there was a by election due to Boris Johnson being elected mayor of London. Labour came fifth in this by election , one place below the BNP, our local Nazi party. I'm ashamed.

Livni says public has lost its faith in politics - Israel News, Ynetnews

Say it again babe! The Eggheads haven't lost faith in you.

Israel , Tourism and the Anglican community

I notice that 2008 seems to be a record breaking year for tourism to Israel which pleases the Eggheads. Apparently my sister has overcome her aversion to aeroplanes enough to make the trip out here later this year. There will be rejoicing in the hills and valleys of the North when she comes.

In the meantime, say hello to all the Anglican bishops gathered in Jerusalem who seem to not want to travel to the more conventional conference in Lambeth. I would like this to be a preference for hummus rather than fish'n'chips but sadly, it's not.

How Darwin won the evolution race | Science | The Observer

For all the supporters of evolution, don't forget Darwin's anniversary.


"You could only understand the true conditions of life if you held on to a sense of the true ruthlessness of natural forces."

Firefox

Firefox 3.0 is out and worth a download. It's fast... very fast. The downside is that your favourite addons may not have made it yet.

Scatalogical

It was a former US President who once, when asked why he appointed someone to the Cabiner replied "I'd rather have him inside the tent pissing out than outside pissing in."

In Israel , Ministers leave the tent, unzip, let fly then walk back in.

Probe into murder of top lawyer will be long, complicated - Haaretz - Israel News

As well as various terrorist acts in Israel we get the occasional organised crime violence that happens elsewhere. I have vivid memories of an explosion in the street where I used to live and the resulting confusion amongst the residents.

Shaul Mofaz

One of the reasons it will be hard to vote for Zipi is, well, Shaul Mofaz. As a an entity who is occupying a part of space time that could usefully be employed growing a small bush he is the zit on the body politic. His latest set of rants just confirms my view that Israel has too many ex generals with not much to do except keep a competent person out of a job. Please remember this is the transportation minister who led the police on a chase during the Second Lebanese War. For some reason, just because he lived in Iran until the age of 9 some people thinks that makes him an expert.

I beg to differ.

At work

We have a games room at work. Currently without air conditioning it's a bit hot and sweaty but great to release tension and play table football, ping pong or darts. We now have an exercise room as well. Large heavy machines with weights , pedals and strange bits of equipment. The engineering team I work for are already exploring how we can change it all to something more useful.

It's sad

The Eggheads are collectively sorry that Hillary Clinton didn't make it. Bummer.