Backed Up
Hurricane Wilma … intensified into the most powerful storm ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean basin today , with winds of 175 miles per hour … On Monday, the storm became the 21st named...
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Britwashing
There’s an article by Michael Luo I saw today that repeats a classic lazy error of misattribution by stating that John Nelson Darby, the founder of the now-peculiarly USian superstition of Rapture was “British”....
Pillow Ecology
Each pillow was found to contain a substantial fungal load, with four to 16 different species being identified per sample and even higher numbers found in synthetic pillows. The microscopic fungus Aspergillus fumigatus was...
TV A Go GO
I think the idea of offering basically disposable TV for single item licence fees ala Apple is going to be a constrained market. Most of what people watch on TV they consider disposable. It...
Says It Better Than I Ever Could
I don’t hate Apple. I don’t even hate Apple-lovers. I do, however, possess deep odium for the legions of Apple polishers in the press corps who salute every shiny gadget the company parades through...
Thatcher: Down On Iraq
I was a scientist before I was a politician … And as a scientist I know you need facts, evidence and proof — and then you check, recheck and check again. The fact was...
Blame Canada!
George W. Bush may have no military exit strategy for Iraq, but the necons who convinced him to go to war there have developed one of their owna political one: Blame the Administration. Their...
Frosty Welcome
Al-Jazeera, which is launching an English-language network with Washington as a major hub, has landed its first big-name Western journalist: David Frost. And the veteran BBC interviewer says he’s perfectly comfortable with the unlikely...
On A Mission From God
“President Bush said to all of us: ‘I’m driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, “George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan.” And I did, and then God would tell...