My links of the day: Stealing a nation – A new documentary by John Pilger, to be screened next Wednesday, reveals how in the 1960s Britain secretly and brutally expelled the inhabitants of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean – so that the US could build a military base there. Good times. He is …
Author Archives: Chris Nelson
Yes Men
This looks fun, I might have to check it out @ Hillcrest:Pranksters vs. the WTO, The Yes Men.
Evolution, DNA, and God
Your links of the day: Keats’ project asks some serious scientific questions — and no small number of religious ones: If evolutionary theory is accurate, then God’s genetic makeup should most resemble Earth’s first life forms. Or, if creationists are right, then God’s DNA is more like the life forms he created in his own …
Gookin Ave
I went to the Adams Ave street fair this weekend with Anna. It was good, as usual. It was interesting to run into Bill Gookin. He is exactly like you would expect – a very friendly, geeky guy, obsessed with his Gookinaid. Have to say, I love Gookinaid, the stuff is great for activities and …
Fame can suck
Erica Durance. Erica and I went to the same school, she was a year younger. I knew her, but she was not a close friend or anything – the school was small enough that everyone sort of knew each other. Today some wacko sent me an email from classmates.com asking about her year book photo. …