My membership to the humane society may be forfeit ...

Innocent people are living afraid in today's world. They are scared that they may be killled in merely the collateral damage that would happen if the political machinery which underpins the globalised economy breaks down, and the guided missiles start flying.

How do we know this? Well its hardly new, but to 3000 former residents of New York city and 200 holiday-makers in Bali who are no longer with us, its suddenly become their reason for living. Or more accurately stated, their reason to have lived, at least in the interpretation of the mass-media.

when next we speak, you'll probably be doing more listening...

Either that or I'll not have read any more chapters of this psychology text I'm slowly working my way through. It has opened my eyes to a lot of the little social foibles and anachronisms of human society at large, minute things which almost nobody will pick up on until the last moment.

I keep thinking that there's some sort of personal revelation I'm going to stumble upon quite soon, but for now its hopelessly out of my grasp, like something which I keep reaching for, but it keeps slipping through my fingers. Kind of akin to jelly or silly putty. There's been good and bad about the weekend which has both pushed me further from this revelation and pulled me closer towards it, like an irresistable tidal force. Did you know that coral, because it spawns in the shallow ocean and as such is subject to tidal forces to spread new coral spores, usually only gains ground at a rate of 5m per year (approx, figures drawn from my unreliable memory)? Funny how you'd think of something which lives on the seabed as being inherently migratory or at least wide-spreading when mating season comes, becasue water is such an excellent transfer vector... but really they're "stay at home" types. Weird.

Anyway, and now for this:
Quiddity (11:30:08 PM): This is what the American weapons inspectors just found: http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
Scotti (11:31:16 PM): seen it
Scotti (11:31:18 PM): got flash?
Scotti (11:31:35 PM): http://www.idleworm.com/nws/2002/11/iraq2.shtml
Quiddity (11:31:37 PM): Don't know if its working but the plugin is installed.
Scotti (11:31:46 PM): that is a VERY funny link
Quiddity (11:38:14 PM): My god thats BRILLIANT!
Scotti (11:38:27 PM): I thought so too
Scotti (11:40:50 PM): its true though
Quiddity (11:42:34 PM): Oh yes, I hope it doesn't happen, all the radiation is going to bring the cockroaches one step closer to evolving opposable digits then there's pretty much no stopping them from taking over and making us all their slaves.