Author: mike

The innovative approach of Dublin’s heroin community never ceases to amaze me. This is from an email I received: I was chatting with my sister last night and she was telling me about a...

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So one of the original XML inventors has realised that you can’t fit the world or social constructs into a neat hierarchy. Why do so many otherwise smart people take so long to figure...

Nice article here looking at some of the (estimated) 2000 people disappeared by the US justice system since September 11th. I note that the LA mass detentions recently spread to the Bay Area when...

So my nefarious plan succeeded and now those scary Offaly GAA supporters are now Google’s #1 hit for “Irish Porn Star“. Earlier here.

So apparently the record companies, in a rare legal defeat concerning price rigging, have agreed to pay to settle a class action suit. So if you swear that you bought recorded music between 1995...

Let nobody ever doubt again the wisdom of Regular Movements. My Dad was admitted to hospital in New York with extraordinary abdominal pain. Initially they thought it might be appendicitis, but it turned out...

I note an interesting article that analyzes how Israel’s Sharon is shaking down the US Treasury for $14 billion to ensure “compliance” with US Middle Eastern policy. How much money in total has the...

I’ve looked at Gnod before, but I didn’t notice that it also does clustering for writers. I was intrigued to learn that people who read Clark Ashton Smith also tend to read TS Eliot,...

So I came up again in this incredibly itchy rash. Last time I thought it was from shrimp, but this time I can’t find any shellfish in my recent dietary past so unless some...