PBS has done a pretty good series on the Iraq war that is really worth a watch.  All of it available to watch online here.

Nice spring snow and hot sun were in abundance in Flachau Yesterday.
The jumps in the park were nicely groomed and there was a wicked Spring battle contest on, being filmed by a helicopter.

That’s me that is. 2 fractured vertebra’s and still going… Feels so good to be pretty much healthy again. Jule wouldnt let me hit the biggest kicker this time, but next time….

Ever since the Greeks coined the language we commonly use for scientific description, mythology and science have developed separately. But what came before the Greeks? What if we could prove that all myths have one common origin in a celestial cosmology? What if the gods, the places they lived, and what they did are but ciphers for celestial activity, a language for the perpetuation of complex astronomical data? Drawing on scientific data, historical and literary sources, the authors argue that our myths are the remains of a preliterate astronomy, an exacting science whose power and accuracy were suppressed and then forgotten by an emergent Greco-Roman world view. This fascinating book throws into doubt the self-congratulatory assumptions of Western science about the unfolding development and transmission of knowledge.

Hamlet’s Mill

I t’iefed this link from cntrl.be, but holding down some strong mixes on their site is yes, yes y’all. Madlib, Dudley perkins, Dilla and other goodness.

The narrator, Marjane Satrapi, only daughter of an educated Teheran couple, first sketches in briefly how the Shah came to power, only to lose it and be replaced by the religious regime of today. Educated in a French school, she and her family are rapidly alienated from the so-called revolution; she is sent to Vienna to continue her education, falls in with a group of punks and eventually returns both depressed and disillusioned to Teheran where, with other university students, she must submit to the rule of extreme Islamists.

The story covers a great deal of ground from the point of view of a young pro-Western culture radical, and is told with humor and intelligence. She laughs at herself as much as at the semi-lunatic Guards of the Revolution.

Satrapi’s hold on reality is much strengthened under the influence of her highly honest grandmother who teaches her not co compromise, not to betray and not to give in.

This is no fairy tale with flying horses and beautiful princesses, but a serious, unsentimental and sometimes brutally honest film covering, among other events, the story of the millions of Iranians and Iraqis who died in a now forgotten seven year war around the Persian Gulf. (Taken from IMDB.COM)

Persepolis

How dope is Igoogle??! Not sure if I am well late on this, or if it is brand new, but dam! On my igoogle page I have an rss feed from derestricted, every stock market Index, weather, gmail, bbc news headlines, Wikipedia etc all on one page. You can customise, add, remove and move stuff as you wish. Sweet new homepage. Ace! http://www.google.com/ig

UPDATE: ANDY YOU ARE RIGHT, http://www.netvibes.com IS WAY BETTER.

I just got back from Cornwall in England. Will put some photos up soon.

It seems like something out of a science fiction movie, but according to this bill passed in congress ‘ It is the purpose of this Act to develop and implement a comprehensive and coordinated national weather modification research policy’
There is a growing outrage about chemtrails. Many websites are documenting them, documentaries are showing up on TV in Germany (with English subtitles) and Italy and it has also been on the news in America, also here too. Some doctors are speaking out about it and some German scientists have filed a lawsuit against the government for climate manipulation.. crazy huh?

Just booked some tickets to Formentera for a holiday in a few weeks
Been a while since I was on a warm sunny beach, can’t wait.

Hey man, Here is the new video i just finished for Bomb the Bass. Check it out here.

Very nice..

There was heavy snow falling when i awoke this morning, but by lunch the sun had come out so we went to eat at a great restuarant down the road. More snow forecast for every day this week too, even down to 400m in Salzburg.

American household debt has more than doubled in a decade to $13.8 trillion at the end of 2007 from $6.4 trillion in 1999, the vast majority of it in mortgages and home equity lines, according to Fed data. But the value of U.S. householders’ biggest asset — their homes — is now falling.
Across the economy, wary lenders are demanding that borrowers put up more collateral or sell assets to reduce debts.

To Austrian economists, the so-called international credit market crisis is a prima facie case of the inherent destructive tendency of government-controlled paper money: it is the consequence of an excessive expansion of credit and money, which encourages uneconomic investment and leads to unsustainable debt burdens.

Ludwig von Mises put this calamitous development as follows:

The wavelike movement affecting the economic system, the recurrence of periods of boom which are followed by periods of depression, is the unavoidable outcome of the attempts, repeated again and again, to lower the gross market rate of interest by means of credit expansion. There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of a voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.[1]

http://www.mises.org/story/2901

It has rained for a week in Salzburg and a lot of the low resorts have been hit too, but a little higher we found some stashes of deep powder and had blue sky’s for most of the day. I forgot my camera (again) but took a few shots with my phone.