Sarah Palin Simulator
I’m ill about the position that America is in, and that has to be considered also and we are a free-thinking society. We don’t have to second-guess there has got to be action is...
Monthly Archive: September 2008
Post-Industrial Post-Colonialism
This is Katanga, the mineral-rich slice of land fought over furiously in the early Sixties in post-colonial Africa’s first civil war. Brooding over its capital, Lubumbashi, is a 400ft black hill: the accumulated slag...
But A Gentleman’s Ties Are Clean!
In the UK, new NHS mandates prohibit doctors in hospitals from wearing ties, or long sleeves, out of concerns that such “professional” attire could carry germs. I did not carry any poison, or other...
Smartphone Musical Chairs
Worldwide smartphone sales totalled 32.2 million units in the second quarter of 2008, a 15.7 per cent increase from the second quarter of 2007, according to Gartner, Inc. In addition, of all mobile device...
Infant Paracetemol Use Linked With Later Asthma, Eczema
Use of paracetamol for fever in the first year of life was associated with an increased risk of asthma symptoms when aged 6–7 years (OR 1·46 [95% CI 1·36–1·56]). Current use of paracetamol was...
Benzedrine Was a Hell of a Drug
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Bank Wars: A New Hope
Financial-market wise guys, who had been seized with fear, are suddenly drunk with hope. They are rallying explosively because they think they have successfully stampeded Washington into accepting the Wall Street Journal solution to...
War Without Frontiers
Pakistani security officials said on Monday that troops had fired on U.S. military helicopters and forced them to turn back to Afghanistan, but both the Pakistani and American militaries denied the incident … The...
Dictatorship of the Corporatariat
What does a socialised corporatocracy look like when the veils of “democracy” are briefly lifted? Only a week after the United States’ Federal Government effectively socialised its mortgage industry by taking over Fannie Mae...
Sexual Singularity
So now, thanks to noted Republican game designer Will Wright, humankind is one step closer to the Singularity. From the simple early beginnings of the likes of Core War, Life and Creatures, we now...