So Lorien told me when she opened her Crackerjacks box that she found an American Eagle temp tattoo as a prize. Which gave me an idea… Maybe in these difficult times when we all...

One of the soldiers had clearly had enough and aimed his gun at them. He can’t shoot, we thought; they’re unarmed and they’re only boys. But he did. He took aim and fired directly...

Today’s word: Technophilia. One of the most persistent memes in technophilic eschatology is the Singularity, a transformative moment when humans and technology fuse to become something other, and unknowable. Vernor Vinge thinks this is...

U.S. CONSIDERS MILITARY ACTION TO REMOVE SKATING JUDGES as President Issues Ultimatum to ‘Axis of Cheaters’

So Bush definitiely needs a good old-fashioned intensive war to begin sometime in the summer so that he can go into the November elections claiming that the best thing to do would be to...

Remember: Neigh Means Neigh!… So this homeless guy tried to have sex with a horse. Not having any of it, the filly kicked him in the face. This other guy, however, was uninjured. Except...

I’ve been looking and Palestinian society is a lot more complex than I’d imagined. Abdul Jawad Saleh has done a lot of good work here. He often points out that the only rational Palestinian...

For the first time a US base in Afghanistan was under attack for around an hour until eventually helicopter gunships drove away the unidentified attackers.

In an instant, a missile sliced through the front end of the trailer. Witnesses said the explosion that followed scattered the arms, hands and feet of children across the road.

So whereas in the US you can get stunned for going to the toilet against the pilot’s wishes, some people are having a lot more fun… During the nine-hour flight last week, Mtetwa was...