Blog Title: Unconfirmed Reports

Waltz with Bashir

Reading the world news, I am often appalled by the actions of the Israeli armed forces. In fact, I’ve got a firm, recurrent irritation going on… and I sometimes wonder if I could be accused, then, of being anti-Semitic. Of course, I would retort that I am not against Jewish people in general, but more read more..

Farming practices may decrease rainfall

A pretty amazing finding cropped up in the news today - though it’s all a bit tendentious at present. The unusual geographic effect of the rabbit-proof fence in Western Australia has revealed to scientists that modern farming practices - apparently - lead to less rainfall on the farmed side of the fence. Maybe we have more read more..

The Night-thoughts Database

In my dream last night I discovered that all our night-time thoughts and feelings are recorded somewhere as plain-text files in a giant database. If we go to the correct location to access these files in the morning, we can check up on correspondences between our own night-thoughts and those of others, thus establishing the read more..

Free Market Soul

Lately my music listening has been totally dominated by Riot Control NYC, a series of online mix-tapes from New Yorkers Burt Fox and Sonny Noir. I would recommend anyone to check these guys out - the range of styles they cover is enlightened, with soul, electro, hip-hop, 80s b-boy, latino, dub… and all the bits read more..

Hot’n'new Do you wish to become multi-orgasmic?

Almost all the spam we receive is very very obviously spam. So do you find yourself wondering, just how many people actually take the bait? Well, apparently the answer is: 1 in 12.5 million people.

Johnny’s Midnight Goggles

I’ve got a review up at DailyInfo for Johnny’s Midnight Goggles, a rather strange show put on by cellist Matthew Sharp. North Wall Arts Centre, Sat November 1st 2008 Matthew Sharp is a critically acclaimed cellist who has performed with the likes of the Royal and London Philharmonic orchestras. According to convention, Sharp should content himself with read more..

Obama Landslide

Obama has been chosen as President in an absolute landslide result. He has been elected by a margin of 81-19, as voted by over 50,000 people from around the globe. No, I don’t mean the citizens of America - I mean the citizens of the world, voting in the Economist’s global election. Unconfirmed Reports officially endorses read more..

The Graham & Dodd theory of stock markets

One of the most convincing pieces of share-market analysis I have read recently: The 10-year price-to-earnings ratio tells an incredibly consistent story over the last century. It has averaged about 16 over that time. There have been long periods when it stayed above 16 and even shot above 20, like the 1920s, 1960s and recent read more..

Sharkbook Pro

The new generation of mobile computing is about to arrive…

Back Again

Back in England again. Cold and frosty - beautiful clear crisp mornings, but already we need to crank the central heating in the evenings. Cold, frosty people as well. Decent, hygienic people.