Author: mike

Why was Sauron so worked-up over that precious Ring, when he could have got One here?

Cutting-edge research in the British Medical Journal here. Worth every penny of the grant, and surely a contender for an IgNobel? Ability to distinguish whisky (uisge beatha) from brandy (cognac)

Vatican Secret Archives… if only I read Italian.

It’s a pity RobotWisdom has gone down. Barger’s anti-Zionism too often strayed over into anti-Semitism and plain nastiness, but he found some good links. Hey! It’s back again!

I am so glad I’ll never have to wear something like this…:ManHood – The Undergarment for Circumcised Men.

Children sleep with Pooh on their sheets, they wipe their faces with Pooh as they get out of the shower. Uh-huh..

Cuba, Sudan, Serbia Form Axis of Somewhat Evil; Other Nations Start Own Clubs Got it from here. Meanwhile, Iraqi VP Ramdan said: This statement of President Bush is stupid and a statement that does...

The Base-Rate Fallacy and its Implications for the Difficulty of Intrusion Detection limits the effectiveness of any of these huge Orwellian technological profiling systems dumb people are putting their faith in. And the tragedy...

Television Without Stupidity – kind of fun.

Someone sent me this, a Dutch guy’s eye-witness account of the Sabra and Shatila massacre that Israel’s PM, Ariel Sharon, is being tried for… exploding assassinated witnesses notwithstanding.