Daily Archive: October 9, 2001

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Al-Jazeera Dawn

All those pictures and news footage from within Taliban-controlled Afghanistan on CNN actually come via this tiny Qatar-based station, Al-Jazeera.

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Wartime Priorities

Industrialised farming is so fucked-up and wasteful and polluting and destructive in so many ways. And even in the little details it gets absurd. Peanut farmers are to get $3.5 billion in grants from...

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(Almost) Free Money!

I just found a way to get a free (well, almost) copy of MS Money 2002. Go here, get an account, and even if you don’t want to use their $8/month unlimited stock purchase...

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Terms of Endearment

Amp: Marijuana dipped in formaldehyde or embalming fluid, sometimes laced with PCP, and smoked. H-bomb: Ecstasy mixed with heroin. Pikachu: Ecstasy mixed with PCP. Bazooka: Crack and tobacco combined in a joint. Belushi: Cocaine...

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$1m Catch

So this guy who now has this $1m baseball in his possession (hello?) was not the one who originally caught it. Someone else did, there was a “scuffle”, and now he’s the one who...