Ed Dowding

Month: March 2014

two silver fishes on round white ceramic plate

First rule of Corporate Club

First rule of Corporate Club: If you teach a man to fish, you’ve lost a customer.

Historical re-imagining

I’ve always loved a Knight’s Tale. It’s fun and real, telling human stories. Which is where it’s at, really. And this is similarly awesome. So here’s a great video of men with cellos. Then the Knight’s Tale scene. Then a link to a post which far better articulates that which I wanted to write here ...

The challenge of staying positive

Here’s Stevie Wonder on the tremendous challenge of articulating a succinct and positive vision. Jump to 2m21. Epic fail. Waaaay too much to say and too little time to say it. Did you hear that bit at 2m46?! Neither did I. Anyway this morning someone said, “I don’t know how you stay so positive.” Here’s ...

The dark side of poetics.

“Eternal is the life of the warrior who finds beauty in their own wounds.” (apparently) Either that, or short but blissfully lacerated.

The Facts In The Case Of Dr. Andrew Wakefield

http://tallguywrites.livejournal.com/148012.html

Clear message to the police

Which side of history would you like to be on? See also this tweet from the Greater Manchester Police which seems to boast about breaking into houses and stealing things on social media.. which is rather against a) what they tell us to do, and b) the spirit of policing. We've kicked in a door ...

EU sort of forces companies to report on social and environmental impact

Something is better than nothing. Discuss. The EU is to force large companies to report on environmental and social impacts, but “opposition from some member states, particularly Germany, Poland and the UK, mean the requirements will not apply to the majority of large companies – according to estimates just one in seven large companies will ...

Life is too important for obvious news

How is the opinion of a massively biased party headline news? HS2 chair Sir David Higgins urges project speed-up  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-26604074 Someone is up to something today (see previous post). NB if reading this in the future, this is as Crimea votes to join Russia, Malaysia’s jet is still missing in strange circumstances, flooding is still ...

MH370

I might as well get this down for the record since my blog is working again. 1. Russia is behind the missing flight, MH370. It’s there to distract people so that it can continue doing more domestic hardening without international headlines. If there were no plane it would be items one and two, whereas now ...

Somewhere, aliens are wincing

A tiny handful of peaceful happy aliens are watching on and wincing as yet another civilisation stumbles at the penultimate hurdle. Every time the same story: they either fail to adapt to a post-scarcity economic model, or they use up all of the nuclear fuel before they can use it to leave their solar system ...