Art Or Graffiti?
They’re back again! After having been assiduously steamed off by the Council.
The question remains, is it art or graffiti?
Art Or Graffiti?
July 7th, 2010Photos of Summer Solstice Sunrise On Glastonbury Tor
June 25th, 2010New category of photos put up – “Summer Solstice Sunrise 2010″
(from the YouTube video at http://bit.ly/aOihHA )
Video: Summer Solstice Sunrise 2010 Glastonbury Tor
June 22nd, 2010A new video is up on YouTube of the celebration of the Summer Solstice at sunrise on June 21st 2010 at Glastonbury Tor. Were you there? Can you spot yourself or your friends?
MagicWaves has something to reveal !
June 20th, 2010MagicWaves has something to reveal ! – http://bit.ly/auurvZ
Magic Twitter Tarot
June 19th, 2010Experimental Magic Twitter “Tarot” coded through boredom – http://bit.ly/bOxcSo
Bugs/suggestions … ?
Beltane Procession: Joyful But Dangerous
May 1st, 2010
The informal May Day/Beltane procession in Glastonbury today was wonderful – a colourful and joyful affirmation of age-old natural environmental values in a world of drear, nasty religion.
But what a pity the organisers didn’t properly inform the council and apply for the roads to be closed for the short duration of the parade. As with the “goddess” procession, cars along Chilkwell Street and Lambrook Street suddenly encountered the march unawares and were forced to brake dangerously. Clearly, serious injury or even people’s lives were needlessly risked. A collision with a child running in the road would not have been so joyful.
Site-Specific Browser For Glastonbury Magic Website
April 25th, 2010A site-specific browser (Mac OS X Universal Binary) for viewing the Glastonbury Magic website can be downloaded from here: http://bit.ly/93tNJF
Spring Tries Its Level Best
March 30th, 2010Spring is certainly trying to be sprung, as these daffs testify, but the Winter blasts keep coming back…
Daffodils In St Johns Church Glastonbury
Wholefood shop’s new location: bad move?
March 26th, 2010What a mistake to move the wholefood shop to the defunct Woolworths premises.
The place is just plain ugly. And in comparison to the charming building that used to house the business, it’s positively hideous. Lost and naked, caught with its trousers down, it looks even worse than Woolworths used to look.
It used to be that I might wander into the wholefood shop, just because it looked so nice. Like as not, I would usually end up buying some of the goodies, despite the fact that they were overpriced. The environment was good. You felt healthier the moment you walked in. At the entrance, with its multifarious notices, you felt part of the local community. It was what you’d expect a Glastonbury whole food shop to look like.
Now I don’t really want to walk on the same side of the street.
What were they thinking? Was this to increase profits? If so then I wonder if people will think twice before legging it further up the High Street, to buy expensive whole foods from this new location, wrapped in its brutalist lineaments behind those ghastly plate glass windows.
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The Impossible Opinion Poll
March 18th, 2010
If there was a survey which asked people “whether or not they told the truth to opinion polls”, and if the overwhelming majority said that they did not, what would we make of it?
If the response was true, then it would be false, and if the response was false, then it would be true.
Imagine a man makes a response, saying, “No, I don’t tell the truth to opinion polls.”
This response cannot be false. But also, it cannot be true.
The response can’t be false, because, if false, it would entail that he does tell the truth to opinion polls, in which case he wouldn’t have given that response.
But, if the response is true, then he must be lying (if it’s true that he doesn’t tell the truth to opinion polls, then he wouldn’t admit to it). Therefore, he must be lying in this instance, which means he really does tell the truth to opinion polls. But then, if he really does tell the truth, then his response was true, which means he does not lie to opinion polls – in which case his answer must be true, and so the analysis of the response as true begins again, and the whole thing goes on, ad infinitum.
An habitual liar therefore cannot sensibly answer the question in the negative, because, if the response is true, then it is false; and if it is false, then it is true. The liar must therefore always respond by saying, “Yes, I tell the truth.”
And a person who does always tell the truth to opinion polls would also say, “Yes, I tell the truth.”
Therefore the only answer you can ever get from anyone regarding this question, regardless of whether they lie or not, is, “Yes, I tell the truth.”
So in this case we know the answers we should get, even before we ask the question (even if we don’t know the actual distribution of truth-tellers and fibbers).
