Apple’s Gone A Bit Pete Tong
I’ve always been a Mac user, but as Apple grows more powerful I get the sense that there’s a little bit of Microsoft in there. The way it’s so controlled from the center. It’s...
Monthly Archive: July 2006
Terminators Separated At Birth
From The Smoking Gun‘s festive “Stripper’s Gallery“, arrested for various offences (exposure, prostitution, etc).
Bench Warrant
[Judge] Thompson exposed himself during three separate 2003 cases (two of which were murder trials) … Two court employees told investigators that they saw Thompson … attach the suction device to his penis, while...
Shock and Wobbly Awe
When [the nuclear] option proved to be politically untenable … the [US] Air Force came up with a new bombing plan … to deliver a series of large bunker-bustersconventional bombs filled with high explosiveson...
Welfare Rice Queens
Nationwide, the [US] government has paid at least $1.3 billion in subsidies for rice and other crops since 2000 to individuals who do no farming at all … In 2005 alone, when pretax farm...