Monthly Archive: October 2005

I traveled for two weeks through what is now the Islamic Republic of Iran … I also got a taste of life behind the high garden walls of the houses of the middle and...

An excellent roundup of so many of the naff toys I enjoyed in the BC (“Before Computers”) era. This was my favourite: the Spud Gun. Given that there were, in fact, an awful lot...

For 16 critical hours, Federal Emergency Management Agency officials, including former director Michael D. Brown, dismissed urgent eyewitness accounts by FEMA’s only staffer in New Orleans that Hurricane Katrina had broken the city’s levee...

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US soldiers in Afghanistan burnt the bodies of dead Taliban and taunted their opponents about the corpses, in an act deeply offensive to Muslims and in breach of the Geneva conventions … [A TV...

Hurricane Wilma … intensified into the most powerful storm ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean basin today , with winds of 175 miles per hour … On Monday, the storm became the 21st named...

There’s an article by Michael Luo I saw today that repeats a classic lazy error of misattribution by stating that John Nelson Darby, the founder of the now-peculiarly USian superstition of Rapture was “British”....

Each pillow was found to contain a substantial fungal load, with four to 16 different species being identified per sample and even higher numbers found in synthetic pillows. The microscopic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus was...

I think the idea of offering basically disposable TV for single item licence fees ala Apple is going to be a constrained market. Most of what people watch on TV they consider disposable. It...