Awesome badness

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/03/iron-eagle-isra.html Wired is great for this type of “awesome badness”. It’s like they took a left critique of society and tried to tick off all the boxes: Patriarchal, misogynist, jingoistic, phallic imagery, objectification, militarist, macho, capitalist, bourgeois, fear-mongering, warmongering, latent

Raytheon recruitment day

There was an email sent to all students in the mathematics department, essentially advertising for Raytheon… My response. Woah. Well, if it’s legitimate to advertise for controversial weapons manufacturers on an email list for mathematics students, it’s certainly also legitimate