Author: mike

Sometimes you learn the coolest stuff from junk scifi. I was watching this episode of Stargate with a big green scaly Unas, and there’s this bit where it catches and eats one of the...

More stuff about Mulholland Drive — surely the worst movie I’ve seen all year. Great cinematography, lousy plot barely acceptable even by Lynch’s internal logical standards, terrible editing. One of those alternative-reality-at-point-of-death movies.

Plastic has this story on how Noted TV Psychic (!) John Edwards did one of his I See Dead People schtick with relatives of people who died on 9/11. This would have been a...

New Scientist also says likely postal anthrax originated in the US. Earlier here.

Good advice from someone who knows: Smell new mown hay, green corn, or something fruity? Probably a nerve agent. Breathe shallowly, head upwind. Smell bitter almonds, garlic? Probably a blood agent like cyanide or...

Does Bin Laden already have nuclear bombs, or just nuclear material sufficient to use as a radiological bomb that would posion an urban centre? Or is this just a spin story designed to leak...

Woman… flesh-eating disease… no nose… new nose growing under arm skin… graft expected…

Whatever you do, don’t get any oral action in Zambia. One poor German tourist had someone go down on him, was caught and charged with participating in an “unnatural” sex act, and is now...

Only with so many crazy people in California who value pets above people can it have taken this long to destroy this (wo)mankiller dog.

Another review of the new Pytheas book. I liked his description of the Arctic ice sheet as the pnevmon, or “the lung of the sea”, where the sea and air congealed into ice and...