Daily Archive: October 16, 2001

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Robotic Cats! The future is

Robotic Cats! The future is here. No more scoring, getting back to someone’s apartment all excited, they open the door… and there’s that unmistakable grungy cat smell.

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Sucker Punched

When CBS’s Dan Rather can wonder out loud on Larry King Live, “How did we get sucker punched?”, Arnaud de Borchgrave (former CEO at United Press International) can answer The dumbing down of the...

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Death From The Air

How are those airborne food drops going? Villagers and refugees fought over who could squirrel away the most. Arguments broke out when soldiers from the nearby front line heard about the drop and rushed...

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Who’s To Blame For Bj�rk?

Update: Seems the Inuit can’t be blamed for Bj�rk Gu�mundsd�ttir, they never really made it to Iceland – but they did take all of Greenland from the Vikings/Danes when they got there, later. The...

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Wall Street Fascism

The Wall Street Journal is such a fascist rag. This article argues that democracy doesn’t work, what is needed is the imposition of stronger leaders to “impose order” on the Middle East. Gosh, this...

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Dilemma

This article is good, all about how difficult it is to move forward strategically in Afghanistan. The US can’t bomb the shit out of the Taliban where they are concentrated, because then the other...

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Old Tales

I love these old tales of how far some people went exploring. Of course, we only hear about these ones because they wrote it down. I mean, Pytheas gets a lot of press for...

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Been A Long Long Time

The West’s interest in Afghanistan goes back a long way – it’s always been the strategic high ground in the Middle East. In 510 BC, a Greek guy called Skylax was working for the...

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Truth Or Dare?

Flight 93 (the one that crashed in Pennsylvania). Did it crash, or was it shot down? Who were the passengers on board who said they were going to try to overpower the hijackers? How...