GPS Targets Lager Louts
And in a related development, Budweiser are now tracking lager drinkers’ locations using satellite surveillance. This is great news. Now drinkers of crappy lager everywhere can be zapped from space, either with the Orbital...
Author: mike
A GPS To Call Their Own?
So after the Pentagon removed GPS’s Selective Availability, the maximum GPS accuracy is typically within 10 to 20 meters. Differential GPS can reduce this to minute levels, very useful for calling in airstrikes and...
Chickens, Eggs, and Paedophile Priests
Celibacy creates pedophile priests not by turning priests into pedophiles, but by turning pedophiles into priests.
Woman Bleeds Crash Victim To Death In Garage
A nurse’s aide hit a homeless man with her car, drove home with him stuck headfirst in her broken windshield, and ignored his cries for help as he bled to death in her garage...
Counterpunch
So Counterpunch ran the Taliban Alamo thingy, and within minutes I had this wild set of emails, some people telling me Osama was innocent (!), some that I was a Taliban sympathiser, some distasteful...
Afghan Alamo
In 1836 in the Alamo Fort, 1400 Mexican soldiers surrounded 189 Texans. The Texans were concerned that the Mexicans were going to initiate a program of ethnic cleansing to reduce the Anglo population. The...
A Spot Of The Old Ultraviolence
So this bit where I said girls generally used social rather than physical violence, well, that was “mostly“. A counselor at a Mount Pleasant center for troubled teens was in serious condition … yesterday...
Ancient Humans Desperately Horny Shock
I for one am not surprised. Alan Templeton of Washington University in St. Louis used the Geodis java program (that codes for the cladistic nested analysis of the geographical distribution of genetic haplotypes) to...