Capitalism Hits The Fan: A Marxian View (Lecture)


Quite a good explanation Marxist theory of the failure of capitalism by Rick Wolff an American Marxist Economist. Not sure I totally agree with this finial analysis of the software world but other then that I agree with him on most of his points.


Capitalism Hits the Fan: A Marxian View from UVC-TV 19 on Vimeo.



Conservative Christian Onward!


There is this guy on youtube who calls his channel ‘The Conservative Christian Onward’ I follow now and again. The videos are pretty ridiculous as the following shows. How he comes to his conclusions are most bizarre, but I probably don’t need to explain, other then to say damn those Marxists and their condoms!



How Your Vocal Cords Make Sound


An interesting video about vocal cords, it involves the filming of inside the body so if you don’t like that sort of thing don’t watch!



This is a Knife


There used to be an awesome podcast called ‘This is a Knife’. It ran for quite a while, you might be able to still download the podcast, and pretty sure they must still be on you tube. But unfortunately Channel 4 seemed to pull the plug on the project. But Donal (the presenter) still appears to make the odd video, like recently:



Poem 181 by The Cowards


Fox ‘News’ declares war on Canada


Ageing


As some of you may know I have a lot of time on my hands at the moment with lack of employment and have found myself thinking a lot about mortality, time and what not again. It’s not pleasant thoughts, I suspect everyone has some fears or another around the issue but I don’t imagine it’s to healthy the amount I think about it.

Give the following video a watch by Aubrey de Grey and read his wiki entry. I won’t taint this post with my own thoughts, I’ll let you decide what to make of it yourselves.



Never fail to make me laugh


These dancing christian people dubbed with some drum n bass track never fail to make me laugh, here’s one of the many around…



Tiananmen Square Protests


This is one of my favourite images, seems an amazing act of protest. I have no idea what the commentary is say btw…



Green custard thrown at Peter Mandelson


You always hear how unpopular Peter Mandelson is (even within his own party), he was forced resign three times and messes everything up. How on earth does guy get to the positions he does. I guess while he is hated by most he must have the friends that count! Anyway this amused me…