A female neighbour who had supported the rival Shia Amal movement until her house was destroyed by the Israelis [said] ‘We are all Hizbollahi now’,” And I recall that less than three years ago,...

On top of an estimated three million vegetarians, Quorn has a growing number of calorie-counting devotees … the proportion of households regularly buying Quorn had risen to 19.3 per cent from 17.7 per cent...

I just tried to watch a trailer on Apple’s web site and, after I clicked “Play”, SpyBot Registry Guard told me that Quicktime was trying to insert itself into my Windows startup items as...

The [Afghan] cabinet … approved reviving the Department for the Promotion of Virtue and the Discouragement of Vice, a body that Afghan governments have maintained through much of the country’s history. It became notoriously...

Joe Francis, the founder of the “Girls Gone Wild” empire, is humiliating me. He has my face pressed against the hood of a car, my arms twisted hard behind my back. He’s pushing himself...

I saw this late: Garnet Hertz‘s web server embedded in a pickled frog enabling random surfers to twitch the legs. Hertz has a theme going: fly web server, cockroach cyborg, and so on. What...

A suicide bomber detonated his car in the market of a southern Afghan town Thursday, killing 21 civilians and wounding 13 … four Canadian soldiers in a NATO contingent were killed and 10 were...

A very rough estimate might be that the evaluation function [for computer Go] is, at best, 100 times slower than chess, and the branching factor is four times greater at each play; taken together,...

A rather slipshod article in the New York Times about alchemy manages to perpetuate a typical error: it calls Robert Boyle a “British chemist”. This is an error. He was born in 1627 in...