Author: mike

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Half A Billion Americans?

While I’m prepared to continue to treat this article with some degree of interest (despite obviously sycophantic and pandering sentences such as youthful, exuberant, multi-coloured America and ageing, decrepit, inward-looking Europe), I see three...

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Irish Porn Star!

Well, that was easy. I now show up as the first hit on Google for Irish Porn Star. But coming in a close second (or is it third?) for the slight variation of Irish...

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Star Chamber Not Playing Along

So there’s a secret Federal court that oversees domestic spying and surveillance, and apparently they feel that Mullah Ashcroft’s Justice Department was abusing its powers even before September 11th. They’ve rebuked him publicly, which...

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Spaniards Quite Stringy, Even When Boiled

There’s a review of a food history book here, Near a Thousand Tables: A History of Food, with this illuminating excerpt: Fern�ndez-Armesto kicks off his chapter on food and symbolism with an enthusiastic discussion...

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Mitochondrial Eve Problems

The use of cellular mitochondria mutations that pinpoint an origin date and a common group of female ancestors for modern humans has run into a small problem. A group of Danish researchers have found...

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Prodigy And Speed Bad For Mice Shock!

So I see many people are horrified that those bastards! Al Qaeda could shoot videos of them gassing dogs for research. So what, then, am I to make of this news that British scientists...

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Online Music Sharing And Trust Networks

So I read that the music companies are now pumping out faulty versions of popular file sharing tracks to consume people’s bandwidth. This kind of technological sabotage has a limited shelf life. The street...

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Ashcroft’s Gulags

Bizarre yet confirmed story here: the Bush Gang is setting up a “high-level committee” to decide which American citizens it can declare as “enemy combatants” and intern permanently without trial in detention camps. Apparently...

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Irish Porn Stars

I suddenly realised that Google entry for Irish Porn Star or Irish Porn Stars is very lacking. So I’ve decided to do a little bombing of Google and make these guys my Irish Porn...