You’re Doing It Wrong
Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests came to blows in a dispute over how to clean Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity … The brawl apparently began when Greek Orthodox priests set up ladders to clean...
Monthly Archive: December 2007
Priorities
Politically motivated assassination of the youngest elected female head of government, first female leader of a Muslim country (and only Muslim nuclear State): 1,900 articles. Tiger-Racoon Alliance to Eliminate Humanity: 3,200 articles.
Moron Mystery Tax
“Mystery” gift cards on eBay. People bid up to several hundred dollars for little pieces of plastic that may contain up to hundreds of dollars of stored value, but probably don’t.
So That Explains Country Music
The entire country western music industry is a cover for drug running and the Monarch program. Many of the country western songs are tailored to be utilized for programming. In recent years, ‘Karaoke’ singing...
Get Your Enturbulation On
I slag off Wikipedia a lot for being full of mostly pointless crap about Star Wars characters and porn actors (reflecting the interests of most of its hardcore roleplayers) but it has some gems,...
French Lessons
France spent $3,464 per person on health care in 2004, compared with $6,096 in the United States, according to the World Health Organization. Yet Frenchmen live on average two years longer than American men...
Future Past
Sending signals through time is a popular science fiction idea. Carpenter’s Prince of Darkness movie combines the tachyon pulse signal idea from Benford’s Timescape with some green-vomit+zombies horrorism. Wilson’s Chronoliths has an interesting approach...
Machine Girl
By Noboru Iguchi (an auteur of the genre and an obvious Tetsuo fan). Higher quality video.Minase Yashiro looks different without her prostheses. She also does other work with not quite as many props....