Monthly Archive: December 2002

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What? You Mean TV Isn’t Real?!?

Apparently the TV show CSI isn’t realistic about the tedious job of forensic science, and real-life criminalists aren’t usually as hot. I, for one, am very surprised by this news. Next thing they’ll be...

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Double Standards?

So I keep reading an undue amount of US anti-EU articles, harping on about the fact that the EU denied the Turkish request for membership. I think in the frequency and stridency of these...

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Who Are The Bush Voters?

So two years or so into Bush-Occupied America, it’s always bothered me that I’ve never met any of the large minority who voted for Bush, thereby giving him the opportunity to stage his Supreme...

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Stamp Out Stump Sweat!

So I was looking for some 3D models of sweat — oh the perks of working with video games — and I found this scary device that electrocutes and cauterizes your sweat glands, shocking...

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US Takes Only Copy Of Iraq Weapons Report

Promises To “Make A Copy” For Other Security Council Members Yes it reads like an Onion headline but David pointed out the rather incredible third paragraph of this story: Deputy Russian Ambassador Gennady Gatilov...

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Snipers A Go Go

This is a good article, examining the veracity of the Israeli Army’s claim that they “mistakenly” shot the British UN official, Iain Hook, in the back because he was holding a cellphone. Apparently, the...

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Free Dictation Software

Sometimes I don’t understand how this internet economy woprks. I mean, I’ve gotten used to basically free CDRs and disposables like this, but when Amazon is giving away $50 dictation software packages for free...