Monthly Archive: July 2002

Who, indeed? Earlier here.

The always-rewarding Waiwai Japanese tabloid news portal is a paragon of alliteratively excellent tabloid teasers, but sadly their follow-though is sometimes less than satisfactory. For example, Neighborly spat becomes gruesome blood frenzy is neither...

So I saw a bunch of vox pops from dazed investors on one of those money shows on TV today, all parrotting how they believed in the “US Stock Market”. It’s like a secular...

So these two Palestinian kids were out buying a chocolate bar, except that it was during a curfew, and an Israeli tank shelled them. I’ve always thought the term “curfew” was odd — it’s...

So this article and this one vented, quite rightly, against the skirting-child-pornography-regulations of sites like Lil Amber and Jessie The Kid. But it still seems odd that the parents of Those Satanic Minions The...

So there’s a damn heatwave which meant I kept waking up last night. Just as I was looking forward to a snooze this morning to make up for it, a police car hurtled through...

So now I am back working for Iona, a company I left a few years ago to come to San Francisco. During the intervening period it has extended its tentacles across the globe to...

That series of fast-food commercials by the short guy from Seinfeld expounding on the virtues of “unadulterated” chicken nuggets impinged my consciousness, but was not really high on my priority list. Then I read...

Absolutely especially for Lisa, here’s a temple in India where rats are sacred… Earlier rats here!

So while deluded technophiles contemplate transferring their consciousnesses into digital heaven, the WWF says our civilisation will be lucky to see 2050.