Monthly Archive: September 2003

Apparently there seems to be only two degrees between me and DJ Rap, AKA Charissa Saverio, on Friendster. The Ultimate Lip Liner Junglist. This is weird. I wonder if it’s for real? Suzanne thinks...

You can run but you cannot hide. Britain’s Favourite Irish Stereotype Graham Norton has a new two-year contract with a US comedy channel for an endless stream of shows. His queenie persona was fun,...

Toxoplasmosis is the name of a syndrome caused by a particularly clever protozoan parasite toxoplasma gondii that although it can affect many mammals including humans, it can only sexually reproduce in the guts of...

This is a very bad thing. The largest ice shelf in the Arctic, a solid feature for 3,000 years, has broken up … Only 100 years ago the whole northern coast of Ellesmere Island,...

Last week, Milwaukee police found 130 felines and a dog in house where trash and cat feces was found up to 3 feet deep … The house’s owner died in 1997, but the woman’s...

How is Afghanistan doing? In a series of extraordinary reports, the latest published in July, Human Rights Watch has documented atrocities “committed by gunmen and warlords who were propelled into power by the United...

So I was wondering why, almost alone amongst “civilised” nations, the US somehow managed to avoid having its Head of State directly condemn the slaughter of Sweden’s Foreign Minister, Anna Lindh. Instead they produced...

I know Lisa will love this. Scientists have unearthed a 700 Kg fossilized rodent. That’s larger than many cows. It’s an ancestor of the guinea pig. The full magnitude of the world’s largest ever...

When President Bush informed the nation last Sunday night that remaining in Iraq next year will cost another $87 billion, many of those who will actually pay that bill were unable to watch. They...