all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
business / corporate welfare / economics / laissez-faire / Sam Walton / Walmart
by mike · Published 2008-03-25
Sam “Walmart” Walton practiced corporate socialism. As much as he could, he put the public’s money to work for his benefit. Free land, long-term leases at below-market rates, pocketing sales taxes, even getting workers...
So we’re driving NY–>San Diego with a car full of crap and I am pleased to find that in the middle of the scary Great Iowan Corn Wilderness I can tether the PC to...
Al Qaeda / Black Rent / Dora / Ibna’a al-Iraq / Iraq / Mahdi Army / Sahwa / Sunni / The Awakening
by mike · Published 2008-03-09
“The only reason anything works or anybody deals with us is because we give them money,” says a young Army intelligence officer. The 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, which patrols Osama’s territory, is...
Many months ago I emailed a friend in Google, peeved that it was impossible to get the US version of Google Maps to print out distances in metric. Apparently, someone eventually fixed this and...
Gary Gygax, who co-created the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons and helped start the role-playing phenomenon, died Tuesday morning at his home in Lake Geneva. He was 69. The thing I liked most about...
[Florida’s] first ethanol-production factory put in a request for 400,000 gallons (1.5m litres) a day of city water. The request by US Envirofuels would make the facility one of [Tampa’s] top ten water consumers...
Mainstream media is amazed to rediscover, every few years, that white fluffy clouds are in fact basically enormous migratory reproductive organs for bacteria super colonies. Atmospheric scientists have long known that under most conditions...
The dead have quit rotting in German cemeteries — they are turning into wax-like corpses … Corpses are no longer decaying … Instead, the deceased become waxen, an uncanny process that has become so...
autoerotic asphyxiation / D'oh! / epic fail / hanging / Internet porn / Pornography / sarcoidosis
by mike · Published 2008-02-25
Our report deals with a 30-year-old man who was found hanged in the living room of his flat. The deceased was wearing headphones connected to a PC. Within the deceased’s view was a computer...
MetaFilter is a good way to pass some time: Anglo Women are an endangered species! Past life as a Samurai. I am a Mutant with an enlarged brain, and a device implanted into my...