Monthly Archive: January 2005

for the first time is many years, Yahoo now has a new search tool that beats Google: Yahoo Video Search It’s a good idea to edit your preferences to turn off the safesearch nanny...

Armstrong Williams, a conservative commentator, talk-show host and newspaper columnist [has] just been unmasked as the frontman for a scheme in which $240,000 of taxpayers’ money was quietly siphoned to him through the Department...

I just noticed a weird, trainspotterish connection. In the 1974 series that was the major inspiration for the X-Files, Kolchak the Night Stalker, the episode “Mr RING” concerns a genetic-mechanical hybrid android that rebels...

Here’s a status report on the election “irregularities” in Ohio. It’s pretty ugly stuff, kind of a mini-Ukraine. Given the closeness of the result, the reasonable course of action would be to hold another...

So Pimps Up, Ho’s Down was apparently the title of one of the many porno media found in Michael Jackson’s bedroom during a warrant search. Surprisingly, much of the porn involved females, as well...

Vietnam culled 450 ducks in its largest city on Thursday … doctors in Ho Chi Minh City had also received another patient suspected of carrying the virus, which has killed two Vietnamese boys since...

The head of the Army Reserve has sent a sharply worded memo to other military leaders expressing “deepening concern” about the continued readiness of his troops, who have been used heavily in Iraq and...

From MeFi, people have inadvertently left their network-enabled webcams unsecured, some with motion and sound. This one has someone’s sleeping dogs! Some laundry. Some kind of altar. Frogger, for real. Tires and crap. Nerds...

Courtesy of our friends in NATO.

What Do You Believe Is True Even Though You Cannot Prove It? For me, I see there’s the Continuum Hypothesis debate on one hand, and the kinda-related (through acceptance, rejection, or modification of the...