Cultural Depictions of Joan of Arc
I was inspired by yesterday’s entry to add this little pearl of wisdom to Wikipedia’s entry for Cultural Depictions of Joan of Arc: In the Herald Childe or Image of the Beast novel sequence...
meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Firefox And Me
This morning I noticed my laptop was feeling a little sluggish. Checked the task manager and it seems that Firefox was now eating up 650 MB of RAM. A new personal best. I do...
Blame Jack Sparrow
Pirate attacks worldwide jumped 14 percent in the first nine months of 2007, with the biggest increases off the poorly policed waters of Somalia and Nigeria … Oil-rich Nigeria suffered 26 pirate attacks so...
Condoma Dentata
I never imagined I’d be doing a followup to a much earlier story about a vagina dentata device but apparently the prevalence of rape in South Africa is so high that a second intra-uterine...
This Is Waterboarding
Original Download
The Downward Spiral
If OiNK cost anything, I would certainly have paid, but there isn’t the equivalent of that in the retail space right now. iTunes kind of feels like Sam Goody to me. I don’t feel...
How Can A Situation Happen?
“I went out on my first patrol … Others on the patrol were just shooting like crazies … I also started shooting like all the others … It was … look, I won’t tell...
Facebook Worth $15 Billion?!?
Microsoft paid $240 million for a 1.6% stake in Facebook, valuing the rapidly uglifying website at an impressive $15 billion. Given that this comes shortly after Ebay finally admitted it overspent for Skype by...