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Posted on April 27th, 2006 by Chris.
Categories: Chris, General/Misc..
1) http://www.spikedhumor.com/articles/22008/End_Women_s_Suffrage.html
4) http://www.csun.edu/~vcgeo005/bible.htm
5) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_metal
Excerpt:
Troll metal is a term used to group black metal bands, and bands rooted in black metal, that deal with lyrical themes and imagery about trolls, goblins and other related subjects that are closely related to those of power metal.
There are three important bands of this form of black metal: Finntroll, Mortiis, and Arckanum. Whilst serving as a good form of black metal for these bands to expand their musical style, they usually try to stay close to their usual lyrics. It is for the aforementioned reason that the three major bands sound so different: Mortiis, with a medieval ambient sound (no longer as current); Arckanum, with a pretty simple black metal sound, only with troll themed lyrics; and Finntroll with their mixture of black metal and humppa (a kind of Finnish traditional music), which gives them a distinctive folk metal sound.
In most songs of Finntroll, trolls relate their hate of humans, especially Christians, which is for them a plague to eradicate, usually by eating them. They relate how they prepare for battles without fear, arming themselves with axes and subsequently how much humans should fear them. They also tell about their rites and beliefs, and thematically live in the north and humans in the south (as trolls come from the Scandinavian folklore and most troll metal bands are from Nordic countries). Trolls also seem to have a ‘King’ and a ‘Lord‘ called Rivfader (the name of their demo) that is referenced in lyrics.
Posted on April 25th, 2006 by Tim.
Categories: General/Misc..
JordanL writes “Hot on the heels of the beta rollouts of IE 7, comes an editorial from John Dvorak declaring IE the biggest mistake Microsoft has ever made. From the article: ‘All the work that has to go into keeping the browser afloat is time that could have been better spent on making Vista work as first advertised [...] If you were to put together a comprehensive profit-and-loss statement for IE, there would be a zero in the profits column and billions in the losses column–billions.’” - from slashdot
I don’t usually respond to slashdot articles, but I hate Dvorak, and anyone who reads that blog already knows that. Having said that, there are two big problems with Dvorak’s claim that I want to discuss.
Posted on April 25th, 2006 by Tim.
Categories: General/Misc..
Posted on April 24th, 2006 by Chris.
Categories: Chris, General/Misc., Philosophy, Politics.
Because of the nature of a blog, I will no longer attempt to focus on delivering organized thoughts, but rather I’ll just throw stuff out and leave the audience to piece it together.
At our recent university elections, we had slightly more than 50% turnout. That’s not a new pattern and it’s not surprising. In the U.S., about 60% of Americans voted in the last presidential election.