Daily Archive: October 25, 2001

I’ve heard this before, but I liked the way this guy talked about the media’s abdication of responsibility: Talk of plot lines and demographics, sexiness and �water-cooler� appeal have polluted a mission that is...

This rules. The Internet Archive: a repository of much web material dating back to the mid-90s, catalogued by date. Now if only someone could find some really old Usenet stuff from the 80s…

This cracks me up. The New York Post runs some really stupid and vicious stuff, but this cover is priceless. The cover kind of clashes with how the NY Post is also coming round...

It’s a queer Lovegety. Excellent! Capitalism and niche marketing combine to create a triumph of function over form.

Meanwhile, a woman pissed off with being hassled by a bank to repay her dead son’s student loans, sent the bank some of his ashes to prove he was dead. Of course a massive...

So the latest forensic analysis has ruled out the Russia and Iraq as sources for the anthrax spores themselves, leaving only domestic US manufacturer as the only likely source. Some guy called Bill Patrick...

There’s so much in this Chomsky lecture (audio), but one salient fact I took to heart was that Chomsky had noted that reactions to 9/11 in Ireland differed significantly from reactions in Britain. Why?...

So while in Portland we stayed in the Westin, which was nice and the Heavenly Bed� and Heavenly Shower� certainly came in handy. But the highlight was staying in the Timberline Lodge, the exterior...