Monthly Archive: October 2001

Man Bites DogKitten Boo! Hiss! To quote the words of the wise sage Jerry Springer, I knew there had to be a trailer park involved.

The UK Guardian finally ran a story on the theory that the war in Afghanistan’s real long-term goal is a trans-Eurasian oil pipeline.

According to this story, Israel plans to detonate a string of nuclear landmines should the Syrians try to invade again via the Golan Heights.

I like this story. An unemployed ice cream truck driver from Ohio figured out how to beat the simple light pattern on a now-defunct TV show called Press Your Luck, which sounds like a...

Despite repeatedly notifying the Pentagon of the location of its camps, flying their flags, and painting huge red crosses on its rooves, the Red Cross was bombed by the US for a second time....

Every “Just War” has collateral damage.

They used similar arguments in the 1930s, about Hitler, as a necessary defence against communism. Newsweek says It may be a good thing that Pakistan is ruled by a friendly military dictator rather than...

I always wondered was this possible when I’d see this little kids holding huge bunches of helium balloons. Tie many balloons to kid. Wave goodbye to kid. Someone has tested this theory out and...

Sometimes you learn the coolest stuff from junk scifi. I was watching this episode of Stargate with a big green scaly Unas, and there’s this bit where it catches and eats one of the...

More stuff about Mulholland Drive — surely the worst movie I’ve seen all year. Great cinematography, lousy plot barely acceptable even by Lynch’s internal logical standards, terrible editing. One of those alternative-reality-at-point-of-death movies.