Monthly Archive: May 2002

So apparently John Malkovich wants to personally shoot Robert Fisk, probably the best writer on the Middle East of the last 50 years (but some people don’t think so). Maybe there are still some...

What happens to animals in factory farming is not right but apparently shooting politicians in the head is okay. The original article was removed, but we have Google’s cache to thank, as usual.

So UK troops in Afghanistan have been struck down with some debilitating, possibly fatal enteric disease. Some 18 are down, 2 critically, and hundreds quarantined. Biowar, bad food, or wussy English tummies?

So Tonight around 10pm I felt my first ever quake. A 5.1 shock with an epicentre some distance away. So before this no quake had ever managed to wake me or be noticed by...

I just noticed another article about the RoboRats. The researcher wants to use them for rescue… but unfortunately they have a rat-like habit of being easily distracted by tasty food items such as blood...

So the old dreams of the pop pranksters the KLF (Kopyright Liberation Front) seem to have come true as I read in the NY Times that “Mash Ups” — mixed-up blends of disposable pop...

So now with Windows XP Embedded all a la mode I decided to check it out. What’s the first thing I see but a lengthy MS comparison between XP Embedded and Embedded Linux. Of...

European Commission president Romano Prodi commissioned noted architectural lunatic Rem Koolhaas to come up with a new design for the EU flag — the current one is getting cluttered with too many stars. Rather...

So it’s taken a while since I posted it first, but suddenly the phrase “chelsea clinton” (or variations thereof, have replaced the usual search words (“chu mei feng“, “hydracodone, “longest cock“, “satan pooh“, “urethra...

All democracies are flawed, of course, and voting techniques rife with issues of concordance and transitivity. And we all know how Western media loves to criticise democracies such as India where, well, they are...