Author: mike

Back from Hawaii, tired. More later.

Jerry Springer has officially launched his RunJERRYRun political activism website. He wants to be one of the Senators from Ohio, and apparently is counting on bringing out his core vote to achieve victory: slack-jawed...

Grrrrrr, DSL is down. MCI Worldcom, the bankrupt crooks I buy my DSL from, are now apparently so cheap that they have no backup routers available. So when a single router goes down, they...

Media Jukebox just finished batch converting all my old, gnarly ID3v1 MP3 tags into ID3v2 super-fast MP3 tags. So now I can embed album art and lyrics in them. The operation took over 24...

So some clever bonces have knocked out a quick’n’dirty airfare arbitrage engine, a kind of Black-Scholes for airfares. How long before the airlines start adjusting prices non-deterministically to fox cherry-picking price search precognitive engines?

John Dean, Nixon’s lawyer, thinks King Bush might be impeachable… Presidential statements, particularly on matters of national security, are held to an expectation of the highest standard of truthfulness. A president cannot stretch, twist...

I was surprised to note that an alleged representative from the legally challenged Girls Gone Wild krewe is disputing my interpretation of their “reality porn” business. Earlier here.

Bush defended the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on Thursday and pledged that “we’ll reveal the truth” on Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction. Troops hunting for Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction have searched 87...

Yet another reason not to eat animals, especially cats. CHINESE authorities have identified the patient who started the Sars epidemic that has killed at least 770 people around the world. Huang Xingchu, 36, a...

From the country that brought you “intelligent design”, “the moon landings were faked”, and “scientology”, comes this: A surprising 41 percent of Americans either believed that the United States had already found WMDs or...