Monthly Archive: January 2002

They’re making a movie out of Samurai Jack! This is great, except that, of course, much of the charm of SJ lies in its exquisite animation. Is this a case of Not-Getting-The-Point?

I sit next to a Russian guy in work, and he tells me that the way Afghanistan is reported in US media is eerily similar to Soviet media’s reportage on Afghanistan during the 80s....

A new Taliban army is threatening US and US-backed forces in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, some of the Northern Alliance warlords are fighting amongst themselves. Bush would not be the first person to mistake his initial...

And here’s another human rights report on Enron’s piracy and rapine.

So now Enron whistle blowers are being found dead in their cars with gunshot wounds to the head. An oh-so convenient suicide. Par for the course, I’d say. And an eerie echo of the...

This is great. Ivan Mishukov left his Moscow home aged four, and for the next two years ran with a stray dog pack, becoming a classic feral child and, not uncoincidentally, the alpha wolf...

They seek him here, they seek him there, they seek Osama everywhere… Apparently, US “intelligence” believes he’s playing dead. Given the state of “intelligence” on Afghanistan, I still think this provides some useful clues…

Forget In’N’Out, Jollibee is here!

San Francisco Bay altitude map. More topographical maps.

I am also strangely unsurprised that of the countries pledging aid money to rebuild Afghanistan, the US contribution ($296m so far) is eclipsed by Japan’s ($500m so far). The US, the world’s richest country,...