Daily Archive: December 3, 2001

Dean Kamen’s Segway scooter reminds me of another inventor’s human transportation folly: Clive Sinclair and the C5. But the C5 didn’t try to balance an inverted pendulum for kicks.

This is a sad article: Hitler’s monsters were responsible for at least 50 million deaths–10,000 times greater than the victims of 11 September. The Nazi murderers were given a trial at Nuremberg because US...

The Taliban have invited foreign journalists into Kandahar. An effort to use them as human shields, or a way to document the forthcoming, inevitable NA massacre?

I don’t like agreeing with libertarians, but their most recent Presidential candidate is on the ball: An administration official told The Washington Post, “The U.S. Constitution doesn’t protect … anyone hiding and planning acts...

While Ashcroft now wants the FBI freed to spy on groups he doesn’t approve of within the US, some FBI “sources” are reluctant to return to Hoover-era black ops.

Proportionally, this duck has the longest cock in the world. It even comes with a special brush tip, to scrub away other male’s semen. Isn’t evolution wonderful?

Using a telephone book, Richard Minsky would target women by pretending he was a loved one who was in jail for a hit-and-run crash and that a witness saw the crime. He would tell...

Ken took this shot of me with his new digital camera:

New Bush attack plan on Iraq aims to re-involve the Kurds and other dissident groups again. I wonder after they were abandoned the last time will they be as eager to fight Saddam again?...

This new Segway/Ginger is all very welll, but I notice that though the inventor says it will remove the need for people to use cars for urban commutes, he uses a helicopter for his...