Category: Uncategorized

0

Better Bombing Through Chemistry?

Here’s an interesting article that questions whether the standard practice of doping USAF pilots with aphetamines may be responsible for some of their unusually aggressive attacks. Apparently, pilots whacked out on speed are more...

0

Pentagon Extends Navy’s Reach

Many people have remarked how the current US obsession with territorial hegemony is eerily similar to how the British Empire moved rapidly from a mercantilist trading federation to an Empire around the mid part...

0

Hit And Run And Fly

So this guy was landing his Cessna small plane, decapitated a female jogger, then flew away trying to escape. He was apprehended.

0

Robo Rats Redux

Here’s an update on the robo rats.Apparently, rat cyborgs can now be trained to use a GUI remotely. I suspect this is a cunning way to further automate call centres… Earlier here & here.

0

Rumsfeld’s History With Saddam

One of the reasons that the Republicans are so damn eager to gut Saddam is because, like Noriega, he’s a former US enforcer who took the Pentagon’s shilling (dollar?) but then had the temerity...

0

And I Shall Call Her… Mini BritMe

Oh dammit, just as Britney Spears was getting too skanky and wrinkled for even the dumbest of her fans to like, along comes a damn Britney Spears clone: her little sister Jamie Lynn Spears....

0

Milgram And Stanford

href=”http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/8/5/225025/4082″>nice article about the Milgram Obedience and Stanford Prison experiments, and what they can tell us about society. I think what the Milgram study most clearly indicates about “society” is that there are psychopaths...