Sunday, April 29, 2012

Stuff below the fold

Thanks to Borat, Kazakhstan is now attracting tourists:the UKTelegraph has a series of photos on that country to show you what to visit from one of the world's largest mosques to the world's second largest canyon to ski resorts to the former home of Dostoevsky in exile...

The attraction: Bayterek Tower, a 150-metre high monument in the heart of Astana
The details: It has become a symbol of the nation's capital. It features an observation desk at 97 metres as well as other venues including a large aquarium, an art gallery and restaurant.
Picture: Alamy

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Leto and the swan is now not PC...

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StrategyPage has a book review on a new book on Christopher Columbuse, who sounds nuttier than Camping and Mel Gibson put together...

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Bison in Europe? check out this film:
Poland boasts the last primeval, virginal forest in Europe, which covers 1,500 square kilometres on the eastern side of the country bordering with Belarus.
Rajan Datar went to visit what is now a world heritage site and home to a great deal of wildlife, including 500 bison who had faced extinction.
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I ridiculed that C2C type lady (see my earlier posts) who is giving the keynote speech to the next conference of the Leadership conference group that the Vatican is trying to rein in:

Well, I checked out her site and she says that all of her group of superior wise people will ascend to a higher evolutionary plane through conscious evolution this december...and if you spend oodles of money for her conference or her tapes, she'll show you how to join them.

Of course, there is no scientific evidence to show that meditating will let you evolve to a superman (although there are transhumanists out there who are trying to actually manipulate genes to do just that...LINK)

Me, I'm sceptical about those who want to be supermen and posit utopias that won't include the hoi polloi...and if this too sounds familiar, you are right:

OK, Kids, altogether now:



where is Christopher Hitchens when we need him?

And you thought Harold Camping was nuts.


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