Google Usenet Coup
The new Google Usenet Archive continues to surprise. Here is an article about the US Taliban fighter, John Walker, describing his posting history. It’s interesting and kind of sad to see how a “normal”...
The new Google Usenet Archive continues to surprise. Here is an article about the US Taliban fighter, John Walker, describing his posting history. It’s interesting and kind of sad to see how a “normal”...
This is a good article: Why did the same people tend to admire Enron and Argentina? Because in their different ways, both the company and the country tried to turn back the clock to...
Captured prisoners being packed into containers are dying from asphyxiation and their dead bodies being stacked like cordwood. Meanwhile, the Bush Gang have suckered Blair and the UK into putting in their soldiers for...
There’s an emulator that plays Galaxy Force II, the greatest cockpit arcade game ever!!!!
My mate Paul versus the Scientologists.
One of the injured was Noor Mohammed, who had lost both eyes and both arms. Noor, who is somewhere between 10 and 12 years old, told his uncle he heard the sound of an...
Israel in 600 Words or Less
Salon has incurred losses and negative cash flow from operations since inception and has an accumulated deficit at September 30, 2001 of $73,869,000
This Time Machine movie looks good, with Guy Pierce. The load screen has a dinky Flash clock counting down. The trailer looks lush…
Google has viciously put the last two decades of Usenet online. My God, it’s full of posts! They have me back to 1988 — my first public Internet message was in September 1988. Thankfully,...