Monthly Archive: August 2002

So I had to close off anonymous access to the Chu Mei Feng video because it’s been sitting there quietly for weeks and then sudenly several thousand people are hitting it. Network effects I...

From a cultural studies point of view it’s very exciting to witness modern myths during their creation. The death of Diana was one such event, the Y2K was another – although less interesting because...

Just back from a short trip to LA and, again, the weather sucked. No storms like last time, but overcast and generally spectacularly atypical. Noticed the usual preponderance of fake boobs. Every city has...

I note the main guy in this sordid rape fantasy tale sells church decorations for a living…

Here’s an interesting article that questions whether the standard practice of doping USAF pilots with aphetamines may be responsible for some of their unusually aggressive attacks. Apparently, pilots whacked out on speed are more...

Many people have remarked how the current US obsession with territorial hegemony is eerily similar to how the British Empire moved rapidly from a mercantilist trading federation to an Empire around the mid part...

So this guy was landing his Cessna small plane, decapitated a female jogger, then flew away trying to escape. He was apprehended.

Here’s an update on the robo rats.Apparently, rat cyborgs can now be trained to use a GUI remotely. I suspect this is a cunning way to further automate call centres… Earlier here & here.

One of the reasons that the Republicans are so damn eager to gut Saddam is because, like Noriega, he’s a former US enforcer who took the Pentagon’s shilling (dollar?) but then had the temerity...

This is an amazing (and amazingly large) image of the Pyramids from low earth orbit.