Monthly Archive: December 2001

Pee inspectors in Swaziland… San Francisco badly needs these.

Hello? It’s been known for ages that the anthrax used in the letter campaign was US Army issue. Why is this suddenly a surprise to media?

Teacher “kisses” girl in locker room, but this involved pants being down, and was caught on surveillance tape. Teacher claims she spontaneously disrobed. Uh-huh. Related here.

Oh no! The EU has been suckered by the US into the more dangerous peacekeeping role in Afghanistan. Or maybe not.

Joseph showed me what he’s been up to at Google recently: Catalog Sales. I wonder if they do all those crazy fetish ones?

The US has destroyed Somalia’s only functioning financial system, the Barakaat, claiming that it finances terrorism. Probably true, in part, but I’m sure Bin Laden and his cohorts funneled money through Fedwire but I...

That Bin Laden Video US Text1 Text2 UK Text

And I thought my granny was harsh…

Microsoft may be an evil Satan, but Microsoft Research has some cool toys. This map illustrates Usenet very well. The erotica picture binaries seem to be taking over. Sad. The home page for the...

This sucks. Yesterday one of the fuses blew out in my apartment. So me and Lisa spent the night stumbling around in the dark. Which is actually kind of fun but gets old really...