Captain Birdseye… Pirate!
Many of those fish you can see in such glorious abundance in Spanish markets … come not from European seas but from the coasts of the continents of the poor: Africa, South America and...
Author: mike
Architecture Astronomy
Microsoft is vacuuming up way too many programmers. Between Microsoft, with their shady recruiters making unethical exploding offers to unsuspecting college students, and Google (you’re on my radar) paying untenable salaries to kids with...
Serendipitous Germans
Diamorphine, also known as heroin, was first synthesized for commercial use in 1897. The men who discovered it, Felix Hoffman and Arthur Eichengrun, had also, a couple of weeks earlier, invented aspirin; for some...
Corn Welfare
[Brazil] already churns out what many consider to be the world’s cheapest and most efficient mass-produced biofuel … In the United States, a 54 cent-per-gallon tax blocks most Brazilian ethanol from reaching U.S. consumers....
Military Targetting
“I can confirm that we conducted a strike in Sadr City this morning,” a US military spokesman told AFP. “The targets were known criminal elements. Battle damage assessment is currently ongoing.” However, witnesses and...
Washington DC Crime Wave
“Why are we talking about this in the White House?” John Ashcroft nervously asked his fellow members of the National Security Council’s Principals Committee. (The Principals were Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser...
USA’s Deuxieme État
A 2004 U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) study found that 61% of American corporations, including 39% of large companies, paid no corporate income taxes between 1996 and 2000. Last year, corporations shouldered just 14.4%...
Shovrim Shtika
“We did all kinds of experiments to see who could do the best split in Abu Snena. We would put [Palestinians] against the wall, make like we were checking them, and ask them to...
The Internet: Not Just For Porn
Apparently also for Doctor Who. I noticed, in passing, this 200+ GB torrent download of seasons 1-26 of Doctor Who. At that size that’s got to be some kind of record. A few years...
Toilet Sadly Not Included
Quantum Sleeper