Monthly Archive: August 2002

The use of cellular mitochondria mutations that pinpoint an origin date and a common group of female ancestors for modern humans has run into a small problem. A group of Danish researchers have found...

So I see many people are horrified that those bastards! Al Qaeda could shoot videos of them gassing dogs for research. So what, then, am I to make of this news that British scientists...

So I read that the music companies are now pumping out faulty versions of popular file sharing tracks to consume people’s bandwidth. This kind of technological sabotage has a limited shelf life. The street...

Bizarre yet confirmed story here: the Bush Gang is setting up a “high-level committee” to decide which American citizens it can declare as “enemy combatants” and intern permanently without trial in detention camps. Apparently...

I suddenly realised that Google entry for Irish Porn Star or Irish Porn Stars is very lacking. So I’ve decided to do a little bombing of Google and make these guys my Irish Porn...

Anyone who doubts that alcohol is just another psychoactive substance similar to cannabis or cocaine will be upset to find that Scottish scientists have confirmed the reality of the perceptual hallucination known as Beer...

This is a dynamite story by Newsweek concerning the ongoing investigation of the mass graves discovered in Afghanistan. It seems they are quite recent, and that the thousands of people there were slaughtered and...

So my archives are all screwed up and I tried deleting some posts around that time and reformatting them, to see if that cleared the problem. No go. But at least I got to...

All nations are imagined communities, and maintain cohesion through spectacular feats of imagineering. In the US, two of the prevailing ideological weapons deployed whenever “malcontents” suggest restructuring society in ways that may run counter...

So several people have asked did I have any photos of the Fat Apron Lady. Well, not quite, but there is this guy…