the diary of Randy W.

Saturday, May 29, 2004

Coz If you lost your faith in love and music the end won't be long

Ahh the libertines.
Hmm got my school results in for this period. Weren't that good. -> Parents a wee bit pissed off. Hmm may be I'll have to work. But if they say things like stop listing to all that damn music then I think:" Hmm Abolish work..."

Knowledge is power.—Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.
Owk for all you intelligent readers out there. Who weren't sure where this quote came from Meditationes Sacræ. De Hæresibus. Written by the fantastic Francis Bacon. If you want to know more about this chap then PLEASE click this link and Enjoy the great rocking tunes this site offers you. So keep your volume up for Francis Bacon.

Noam Chomsky
I've added a permanent link to the blog of Noam Chomsky. One of the most intelligent man walking around. Chomsky was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Hebrew scholar William Chomsky. Starting in 1945, he studied philosophy, and linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania. There he studied under Zellig Harris, a professor of linguistics with whose political views he had some sympathy. He received his Ph.D. in linguistics from Penn in 1955, having conducted most of his research the previous four years at Harvard University as a Harvard Junior Fellow. In his doctoral thesis he began to develop some of his linguistic ideas, elaborating on them in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures, possibly his best known work in the field.
After receiving his doctorate, Chomsky taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for nineteen years (and was the original recipient of the Ferrari P. Ward Chair of Modern Languages and Linguistics). It was during this time that he became more publicly engaged in politics, arguing against American involvement in the Vietnam War from around 1964. In 1969 he published American Power and the New Mandarins, a book of essays on the same subject. Since then, he has been well known for his radical political views, lecturing on politics all over the world, and writing several other books on the subject. His beliefs, broadly classified as libertarian socialism, have earned him both a large following among the radical Left, as well as many detractors. He has continued to write and teach on linguistics also. (wikipedia.org)

Books you should have read by him: Year 501 (if you're English)
Het Ware Gelaat van Uncle Sam (if you're dutch it is published by the nice people of EPO)

Anyway this is all for Now.

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