Daily Archive: September 21, 2001

Microsoft deflects charges of worm woes Do their PR flacks dole out sexual favours and chocolate? How do they keep dodging MS’s responsibility for causing so many zillions of dollars of grief and sleepless...

So Lorien tells me she’s heard that the Golden Gate Bridge is a “target” this weekend and is driving across it safe? Don’t know, but Unprecedented Disintermediation at NetSlaves has a good perspective on...

300 Naked Women chase biologists? A Benny Hill sketch for the 21st century?

Rotten! Actually, the last two articles came from Rotten.com News portal, which has lots of excellent stuff that doesn’t repeat the same tired old war and racist and anti-war and anti-racist stuff.

No way! In the hours after 911, people were robbing the stores in the WTC underground mall?

Airlines “have successfully resisted many critical, sometimes costly security improvements … Security systems at major airports are so porous that the government’s own agents routinely sneak handguns and mock bombs through checkpoints staffed by...

ROBOT ROACHES!!!! Isn’t anyone terrified by this at all? What’s next, roaches with FOUR ASSES?!?!?!?!?

So they didn’t really ban those songs. It was a hoax, or rather, a media out-of-control spin thing. But why didn’t anyone add The Cure’s Killing An Arab to the list? Self-explanatory I guess.

Now this is more like it. The Mystery of BUNGLE’S HEAD CHANGES!!!!!!!! And not forgetting, Bungle in drag.

“September 2000, as Ariel Sharon, accompanied by a thousand armed paramilitaries, trudges to Jerusalem�s holiest Muslim site to demonstrate Israel�s exclusive sovereignty … Sharon�s stunt predictably provoked Arab riots, which the Israelis suppressed brutally....