Monthly Archive: December 2005

Day 2 of my malaria prophylaxis medication, using the apparently psychoactive Lariam/mefloquine drug that can result in psychosis and “suicidal ideation” in a minority of users. I noticed a slight affect on balance and...

Back from Florida, an interesting place. From what little I could see, most of the state seems to be composed of condos, fake pirate ships, strip malls, and bait shops. There is a lot...

Evo Morales, who won Bolivia’s presidential election on vows to end a U.S. campaign against coca growing, stepped up his criticism of American anti-drug policies on Monday, accusing Washington of using drug fighting efforts...

A detention center in Baghdad operated by Interior Ministry special commandos [contained] 13 prisoners who had suffered abuse serious enough to require medical treatment, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Sunday night. An Iraqi official...

[US investigators described] an extensive criminal network involving North Korean diplomats and officials, Chinese gangsters and other organized crime syndicates, prominent Asian banks, Irish guerrillas and an alleged ex-KGB agent … One of the...

We put 150,000 people outside their homes in Fallujah. If you remember in Jordan, the bomber said that the reason she became a bomber was because two of her relatives were killed in Fallujah....

I’ve been looking for just the right xmas decorations and then I came across this: an original Roman soldier’s Sol Invictus ring. The Sol Invictus cult was a deity that Constantine pimped up in...

Joseph Goebbels – Nazi Reichsminister fr Volksaufklrung und Propaganda, on the idea of memes: An idea always lives in individuals. It seeks an individual to transmit its great intellectual force. It becomes alive in...

I thought it was somehow important to list which Facebook groups I am in: California Love Agnostics and Atheists Amalgamate Eddie Izzardites Lazy Asses Zoolandericous Arrested Development, whut. I Break For Sherpas! [That hansel...

So evil Yahoo bought delicio.us, a collaborative tagging website. The usual suspects have been writing lots of crap about “Web 2.0” over the last few years, about how it was going to turn us...