Author: mike

Caveat Scriptor

Who, indeed? Earlier here.

The always-rewarding Waiwai Japanese tabloid news portal is a paragon of alliteratively excellent tabloid teasers, but sadly their follow-though is sometimes less than satisfactory. For example, Neighborly spat becomes gruesome blood frenzy is neither...

So I saw a bunch of vox pops from dazed investors on one of those money shows on TV today, all parrotting how they believed in the “US Stock Market”. It’s like a secular...

So these two Palestinian kids were out buying a chocolate bar, except that it was during a curfew, and an Israeli tank shelled them. I’ve always thought the term “curfew” was odd — it’s...

So this article and this one vented, quite rightly, against the skirting-child-pornography-regulations of sites like Lil Amber and Jessie The Kid. But it still seems odd that the parents of Those Satanic Minions The...

So there’s a damn heatwave which meant I kept waking up last night. Just as I was looking forward to a snooze this morning to make up for it, a police car hurtled through...

So now I am back working for Iona, a company I left a few years ago to come to San Francisco. During the intervening period it has extended its tentacles across the globe to...

That series of fast-food commercials by the short guy from Seinfeld expounding on the virtues of “unadulterated” chicken nuggets impinged my consciousness, but was not really high on my priority list. Then I read...

Absolutely especially for Lisa, here’s a temple in India where rats are sacred… Earlier rats here!