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Possibly my favorite bit of research information today: "you can harden your conker by rolling it in hand cream."*

In light of such lubrications, what about Peak Oil? I listened to an eight-minute podcast yesterday about Stupid to the Last Drop. Depletion of the oil resources in Alberta &c.

I never read these things. I know what they'll say, and I know I'll probably agree, and there we are. I'm not sure I think "Environmental Armageddon" makes a very sensible subtitle.

( Do you reflexively imagine your life post-collapse, the way we used to imagine nuclear war? )

Apparently they found the spot you rub on a locust to make it swarm. Somewhere on the hind legs. They stroke each other into a frenzy.

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*Or rather apparently soften the impact. Keep it in mind.