Saturday Grimey
Billy Electron
Author: mike
That Is Not Dead Which Can Eternal Lie
Someone found this old, unintentionally hilarious TV news report about the 1988 Morris Worm that took over many of the machines comprising the Internet at that time. I remember blissfully playing hack when the...
Tasty Low-Cal Necrophagy
Morley, a chef, was found guilty today of murdering Oldfield, who was his boyfriend, before carving flesh from his thigh, seasoning it with fresh herbs, frying it in olive oil and chewing a section.
Karl On Bailouts
It is clear that there is a shortage of means of payment during a period of crisis. The convertibility of bills of exchange replaces the metamorphosis of commodities themselves, and so much more so...
Victorian HIV
The most pervasive global strain of HIV began spreading in humans around 1900 in sub-Saharan Africa, a new study claims. The research, which is published in the current issue of Nature, found that HIV...
Sarah Palin Simulator
I’m ill about the position that America is in, and that has to be considered also and we are a free-thinking society. We don’t have to second-guess there has got to be action is...
Post-Industrial Post-Colonialism
This is Katanga, the mineral-rich slice of land fought over furiously in the early Sixties in post-colonial Africa’s first civil war. Brooding over its capital, Lubumbashi, is a 400ft black hill: the accumulated slag...
But A Gentleman’s Ties Are Clean!
In the UK, new NHS mandates prohibit doctors in hospitals from wearing ties, or long sleeves, out of concerns that such “professional” attire could carry germs. I did not carry any poison, or other...
Smartphone Musical Chairs
Worldwide smartphone sales totalled 32.2 million units in the second quarter of 2008, a 15.7 per cent increase from the second quarter of 2007, according to Gartner, Inc. In addition, of all mobile device...
Infant Paracetemol Use Linked With Later Asthma, Eczema
Use of paracetamol for fever in the first year of life was associated with an increased risk of asthma symptoms when aged 6–7 years (OR 1·46 [95% CI 1·36–1·56]). Current use of paracetamol was...