Author: mike

Many people have remarked how the current US obsession with territorial hegemony is eerily similar to how the British Empire moved rapidly from a mercantilist trading federation to an Empire around the mid part...

So this guy was landing his Cessna small plane, decapitated a female jogger, then flew away trying to escape. He was apprehended.

Here’s an update on the robo rats.Apparently, rat cyborgs can now be trained to use a GUI remotely. I suspect this is a cunning way to further automate call centres… Earlier here & here.

One of the reasons that the Republicans are so damn eager to gut Saddam is because, like Noriega, he’s a former US enforcer who took the Pentagon’s shilling (dollar?) but then had the temerity...

This is an amazing (and amazingly large) image of the Pyramids from low earth orbit.

Oh dammit, just as Britney Spears was getting too skanky and wrinkled for even the dumbest of her fans to like, along comes a damn Britney Spears clone: her little sister Jamie Lynn Spears....

href=”http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/8/5/225025/4082″>nice article about the Milgram Obedience and Stanford Prison experiments, and what they can tell us about society. I think what the Milgram study most clearly indicates about “society” is that there are psychopaths...

Bush or Chimp? Someone’s labour of love, it seems… Related here.

So this cabbie was shot on the opposite side of my block and his out-of-control cab ploughed into two parked cars, set them afire, and brought down some utility lines, cutting power and making...

So this story is about these sickeningly vain 20-somethings that are getting loaded and injected with Botox at parties. All they risk is temporary paralysis, loss of vision, and so on. Whatever.