Monthly Archive: July 2005

So Terry Pratchett says that JK Rowling being elevated at the expense of other writers, ie, him. Pratchett came along (quite by accident!) to my 18th birthday bash. He brought along a handy briefcase...

The A and B squares are the same colour. Don’t believe me?

Uzbekistan formally ordered the United States to leave an air base that has been a hub for operations in Afghanistan in protest over a predawn United Nations operation on Friday to spirit out refugees...

CAS Number 42542-10-9. Nuff said.

HP just announced it is to stop selling rebranded iPods. The ex-CEO, Fiorina, never really understood tech. A more bolshy HP is potentially trouble for Apple, seeing as how, thanks to its purchase of...

I noticed several thousand inbound hits from a Japanese web page that made very little sense. Then I ran it through bablefish. Now it makes even less sense, but apparently it describes the Korean...

Petraeus, commander of the 101st Airborne Division during the early phases of the war, is widely viewed as one of the Army’s most creative and competent generals … [he] recently learned of rumors that...

[The Baghdad death rate is] somewhere around 230 “suspicious deaths” each year for every 100,000 residents. In Bogota, Colombia, often considered one of the most violent cities in the world, the murder rate seldom...

Such are our ways with dynamiters. These men were not Britishers, but aliens who came over in time of peace to perpetrate outrages, which if committed by soldiers in time of war, would ensure...

Tests on the River Po in Italy have proved an effective way of gauging [cocaine usage] … thanks to the presence of human byproducts from cocaine in the water. Researchers found the equivalent of...