Letting the Days Go By

Hey everyone I know what to do -- Let's go read the News!

Here is an oldie, but I missed it at the time.

Study Tallies Corporations Not Paying Income Taxes

Two out of every three United States corporations paid no federal income taxes from 1998 through 2005, according to a report released Tuesday by the Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress.

Holy shit, that's fucked! But what else is going on in the News?

Scientists Watch As Listener's Brain Predicts Speaker's Words

Scientists at the University of Rochester have shown for the first time that our brains automatically consider many possible words and their meanings before we've even heard the final sound of the word.

I originally clicked on this article cause I thought it was going be about telepathy. It turns out it's not, so I don't care. But maybe you should read it anyway!

And finally, read this neat thing sent to me by my fried B.

The eco-community in the Preseli mountains of west Wales was set up in 1993 and lived contentedly away from the rat race round a 180-acre farm bought by Julian and Emma Orbach.

In 1998, it was spotted when sunlight was seen glinting off a solar panel on the main building, which was built from straw bales, timber and recycled glass.

When the pilot reported back, officials were unable to find any records, let alone planning permission, for the mystery hillside village surrounded by trees and bushes.

So, usually the next sentence would be "so the villagers were evicted from their homes and their children were taken into custody by the government" accompanied by snideness and innuendo to the effect that people who want to live in ecovillages are necessarily insane. That is, if the story hadn't begun with "All members of deranged ecovillage cult killed in FBI siege." But not this time! Somehow a government (tellingly, not in the US) decided it was okay for people to do something different. Hooray!