system of the world

The nice tax man gave me R2500 back this year, which both reminds me of and rather validates my insane tendency to get an unholy kick out of filling in my tax returns. ( Philosophy Ensues. )

On a not entirely unrelated note, courtesy of the wonderful BoingBoing: Bruce Sterling's ironic, witty, terrifying short fiction piece in New Scientist, projecting a horribly dystopian future to current trends in computers as a means of control. Scary stuff.