Dirty Hive Mind
I was looking for something too obscure for BitTorrent and figured it might be lurking somewhere on RapidShare or one of the other gonzo file dumps. When I went to RapidLibrary.Com, it helpfully printed...
meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
White Lines Blow Away
Bluefields in Nicaragua looks like any other rum-soaked, Rastafarian-packed, hammock-infested Caribbean paradise. But Bluefields has a secret … People here don’t have to work. Every week, sometimes every day, 35kg sacks of cocaine drift...
The War in the Air
The U.S. military also said in a statement that it had dropped 19,000 pounds of explosives on the farmland of Arab Jabour south of Baghdad. The strikes targeted buried bombs and weapons caches. “In...
Last.FM Now Offers Full Media Streaming, and Unauthorised, Convenient Downloads
Last.FM (née AudioScrobbler), an early leader of social music consumption, was bought out a while back by CBS Broadcasting Inc, a huge US media conglomerate. One would expect this to be a Very Bad...
President Urges Americans to “Spend Freely†To Avoid Recession
[The US President announced] a series of conferences to devise means of preventing the Stockmarket decline from affecting US business … The automobile makers, represented by Ford and General Motors’ Alfred P. Sloan Jr.,...
Less Reality to the Field!
Apple has lowered its projected shipments of iPhones from two million units to around 1-1.2 million units for the second fiscal quarter, which will end March 2008, the Chinese-language Economic Daily News (EDN) quoted...
Good With Kids
Jerome Kerviel taught kids judo, held the door for his elderly neighbors in a posh Paris suburb — and appears to have committed one of the biggest bank frauds in history … In the...
So Near Yet So Far
I was reading Adam Cadre’s short essay, Trajectories of Fascism, which is all about the alternative histories where the Nazi regime in Germany was not destroyed in 1945. Sadly WONDERFULLY, Cadre’s essay didn’t mention...
Lincoln’s Lemon Party
There are two Republican candidates in this election— [Huckabee and] the absurd and sinister Ron Paul being the other—who choose this crucial moment in our time to exalt those who attempted to destroy the...
Failing Grade
But it’s probably a mistake to expect the current housing market to behave like the stock market of the late 1990s. “There is no bubble!” says Raphael Bostic, professor at USC’s School of Policy,...