L'été Abstrait

Look, i'm not going to apologize for blogging less. My daily job is to write. And there are days when all i have..is writer's block. It used to be a pleasure inducing hobby, but now, it's become a chore. I really have nothing to write at all, even if my day(s) were filled with events which were 'blog' worthy. I spent the whole weekend at a seminar that can only be described as a downscaled version of hell, or as someone once mentioned quite aptly to me - Hell's Waiting Room. Thankfully, I brought along a book. Unfortunately I finished reading the first book after the first seminar ended. So I brought another book for the second day. Now, this book was so engrossing that I just had to finish it. So i did. Last night at 12pm. It was a 250 page book, and I finished it in a day. Definitely best book I ever read this year. It's called "Ugly Americans" just in case you were wondering. It's a funny world we live in. You never really catch a break. Eve...

By Micheal Anissimov Assuming a 1-megaton nuclear weapon, what are the optimal delivery points to maximize global damage and chaos? We are assuming a 1 megaton bomb due to simplicity - this yield is about twice that of the most powerful fission bomb produced by the US, the Mk 18, which used 60 kg of enriched uranium. With nanofactories, building extremely high-quality centrifuges will become easy, making large quantities of enriched uranium accessible to any organization with uranium ore. We will be able to do with a few centrifuges what previously required hundreds or even thousands. A few facts about uranium: uranium ore is more common than gold, mercury, silver, or tungsten, and is found in substantial quantities worldwide, including in southern Australia, Africa, and the Middle East. It is the 48th most abundant element in the earth’s crust. Pitchblende uranium (1% pure) is available on eBay for approximately $20/kg. The US Department of Energy has stockpiled 704,000 metric tons of...

"Girls can wear jeans And cut their hair short Wear shirts and boots 'Cause it's OK to be a boy But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading 'Cause you think that being a girl is degrading But secretly you'd love to know what it's like Wouldn't you ? What it feels like for a girl?" This is a snippet of a song sang by Madonna. I heard it on the way to Melaka in a car filled with boys. Yeah. I know it's weird. I don't really like the song. It's the preamble that caught my ears. A girl with the very sweetest of voices, in a very obvious English accent speaking over a broken beat. When Madonna starts singing, the song goes back to the beginning. I play it over and over again, wondering if there's any truth to her lyrics. In very many ways it is. I mean i don't have the need to wear high heels or mini skirts, but it's amazing to see how a girl with a knack for dressing gets away with more than just murder. Tight tank top, hyper min...