Monthly Archive: January 2002

Lorien sent me this, kind of a flipside to MyStalker, Japanese Breaker-Uppers, or Wakaresaseya.

This is a comprehensive history of US and Russian military involvement in Ethiopia and Somalia. Well, mostly US. David Halberstam quotes the U.S. Secretary of Defense telling an associate, “We’re sending the Rangers to...

So I finally figured out that what USians call “mono” is actually glandular fever. It’s also the Kissing Disease.

Mullah Pat Robertson is hoping that terrorists will attack San Francisco. Bless his evil little cruel heart. I wonder does he know who the right-wing domestic anthrax terrorist is anyway?

So crappy FingerHut is closing down, and I saw this great article about it on FC: Federated really screwed the pooch here. Fingerhut’s business wasn’t so much about the catalogs (in the sense that...

Artificial wombs are go! Soon children will be decanted, not born… Thank you, Our Ford.

NORAD screwed-up on 9/11? This article ponders why the F15s, instead of using their top speed of around 1500mph, in fact averaged only around 500mph as they scrambled to intercept the airliners? Of courtse,...

The Israeli Ministry of Health has considered a protocol for treating victims of terrorist attacks with Ecstasy — an idea with obvious implications for post- September 11 America. Of course, the evil apartheid South...

One hopes this is only a gag site, sort of a www.mystalker.com.

Solar System Simulator, now this is cool.