meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned

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Kissing Cousins

Incest taboos have become prevalent in our interlinked, modern societies because promoting exogamy acts as a great mechanism for wealth redistribution. Societies that facilitate familial endogamy tend not to be relatively successful in a...

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Irony As Policy, Tragedy As Strategy

Baghdad is not under control, either by the Iraqi interim government or the American military … “I would definitely say it’s enemy territory,” said Col. Stephen R. Lanza, the commander of the Fifth Brigade...

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Deep Freeze!

Foiled! I had this great idea to record some of my more tedious and long-winded lectures to save myself getting writer’s cramp. However, twice my plucky little Archos died on me after a song...

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Note To Self

I noticed this interesting new Google Blogger feature: audio blogs. Set it up to work with your mobile phone, then just call a specific number and waffle for up to five minutes. Your voice...

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Now Playing

So by using a Frankenstein-like combination of Media Center, AudioScrobbler and Magpie RSS, I managed to rig up a “Now Playing” list for the page.

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Swimming Lessons

“U.S. soldiers began to open fire on the houses, so I decided that it was very dangerous to stay in my house” … Hussein said he panicked, seizing on a plan to escape across...

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Iraqi Information Minister Redux

“If there are not good elections, we won’t have a constitution, and there will be chaos, and we will have a civil war,” the minister, Falah Hassan al-Naqib, said at a news conference in...

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Oops!

According to the [CIA’s] NIC report, Iraq has joined the list of conflicts — including the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate, and independence movements in Chechnya, Kashmir, Mindanao in the Philippines, and southern Thailand — that have...

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Bad Guys Finish First

Two US defence contractors being sued over allegations of abuse at Abu Ghraib prison have been awarded valuable new contracts by the Pentagon … Three employees of CACI International and Titan – working at...