Listen to Morbid Angel’s Altars of Madness and you will not believe it’s 21 years old. This is fast and timeless death metal the way it should be played: with fine compositional skill and heaps of aggression. It’s such a relief to hear metal that’s dark and harsh yet hugely enjoyable. So many metal bands [...]
All posts for the month November, 2010
Massive list of free book sites
Gizmo’s Freeware has a list of 250-plus free book sources, all on one page. Some are for PDF/txt ebooks and others are for audio books. You won’t be done soon: http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/50-places-free-books-online.htm
Posted by itwriter on November 19, 2010
http://orionspur.za.net/?p=172
The Afghan girl who goes to school
Roya Shams is 16. She goes to a poorly funded Afghan/Canadian school even though her neighbours think it’s a shocking betrayal of their way of life. She wants to go to university and become a politician. She lives in Taliban territory, where men beat women for exposing their fingernails. What are her chances? Roya Shams [...]
Posted by itwriter on November 17, 2010
http://orionspur.za.net/?p=170
Timidity Is Not A Virtue
The less you know, the more confidence you have in the rightness of your utterances, and your decisions in general. Mark Twain knew this: "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure." link So did Charles Darwin: "[I]gnorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is [...]
Posted by itwriter on November 16, 2010
http://orionspur.za.net/?p=167
Acceptable Beauty
Does the above phrase offend you? It riles me too, but there’s a case for it. Not an ism-related one, thank you — people who try to make art behave according to political or religious dictates should be culled. No, my argument is simply that I can only wholeheartedly embrace beauty if it is accompanied [...]
Posted by itwriter on November 8, 2010
http://orionspur.za.net/?p=157