Author: mike

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Patenting Technical Writing

How stupid and/or lazy are patent examiners? Are they high-school dropouts. These two patents, issued in 1997 and 1999, patent the idea of using training manuals to teach someone, and breaking up complex training...

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Rapists Taste Like Chicken Gizzards

I can’t really improve on the usual excellent Waiwai account… Without struggling, she engulfed the entire wiener into her mouth and held it there as it began to harden in its transformation to a...

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Friends and Family Okay

Good analysis of mostly German findings that the Bush Gang has frozen many “suspect” international bank accounts… but specifically excluded those with ties directly to Bush or his dodgy family oil company, Harken. That...

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Feeding Frenzy

Had to block off more of my site, some too-popular Vids and some book downloads, because people kept hitting them with wardialer programs, downloading entire directories. Once or twice would be okay if these...

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Nero Just Wanted More Parking Spaces…

They need this guy in San Francisco as well — suing to eliminate free parking for Churchgoers in LA. I live near Valencia street which is clogged on Sundays by scruffy mobs of out-of-towner...

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Imperial Ambitions

And yet another post-Afghan War analysis of US imperial ambitions in Central Asia. The United States is engaged in a strategic power grab in central Asia of epic proportions. In previous eras, this sort...

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Wobblies Wibble

Industrious World Socialists (!) print a nice round-up of the background stories to the Did-Bush_Gang-Have-ForeKnowledge-Of-9-11-Attack? Given that people are still arguing whether Roosevelt “knew” the Japanese were going to attack Pearl Harbour, and whether...