Sheesh. I close off the Chris Cunningham video directory to save some bandwidth, and all of a sudden I have dozens of emails from people begging for a download. I keep sending them here,...

Is this the tackiest banner advert ever?

Finally! I don’t need no stinkin’ flying car, not when I can get me mine own jetpack! Yeah!

The Only Good Somali Is A Dead Somali, apparently. Interesting review of Black Hawk Down movie. And another one here, from NTK. it’s like Ridley Scott decided to remake “Aliens”, but misheard “some aliens”...

Wall Street Journal has this on proposed new Government regulation and tax breaks to encourage Universal Broadband Access. This idea appears to be gaining ground. Whether this becomes a public good (Universal Service, the...

Lorien sent me this, kind of a flipside to MyStalker, Japanese Breaker-Uppers, or Wakaresaseya.

This is a comprehensive history of US and Russian military involvement in Ethiopia and Somalia. Well, mostly US. David Halberstam quotes the U.S. Secretary of Defense telling an associate, “We’re sending the Rangers to...

So I finally figured out that what USians call “mono” is actually glandular fever. It’s also the Kissing Disease.

Mullah Pat Robertson is hoping that terrorists will attack San Francisco. Bless his evil little cruel heart. I wonder does he know who the right-wing domestic anthrax terrorist is anyway?

So crappy FingerHut is closing down, and I saw this great article about it on FC: Federated really screwed the pooch here. Fingerhut’s business wasn’t so much about the catalogs (in the sense that...