Entries for January 2007

01/19/2007: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Unity08:Third Party of the Future? from The Atlantic Monthly In a move that has interested this dissatisfied voter who is...
01/13/2007: Nauru - Sealand For Sale, To Be Purchased By Interweb Pirate Clan??? from The Local (Sweden) As first reported in this space...
01/11/2007: Breaking News - RIP RAW Robert Anton Wilson @ Blogspot Robert Anton Wilson Defies Medical Experts and leaves his body @4:50 AM on...
01/26/2005: Technologica - RoboRecital from brendanadamson.com Thousands of years from now, Robots will look back on this seminal concert and pour out some...
01/25/2005: Criminally Absurd - Employees Can Be Fired For Smoking from Wired News Weyco, Inc., a health benefits company based in Michigan, fired four...
01/21/2005: Technologica - Announcing The Athenenaeum RSS Feed from the Athenaeum Technology Working Group Announcing The Athenenaeum RSS Feed - Point your aggregators...
01/20/2005: Criminally Absurd - Homosexual Cartoon Characters: The Growing Menace from BBC According to a BBC news story, right wing agitators Focus on the...
01/20/2005: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Lawmaker wants theaters honest about movie start times from Houston Chronicle Coming soon to a theater near you: movie listings...
01/20/2005: Technologica - Researchers Report Bubble Fusion Results Replicated For those of you who said "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof" and "damn that...
01/20/2005: Criminally Absurd - "Drowsy Driving" To Be Illegal Sir, I Detect The Presence Of Sleepiness. Please Step Out Of The Vehicle from Milford...
01/18/2005: Arcanum - Long-lost star catalog discovered on Roman statue from PhysOrg An ancient mystery may have been solved by Louisiana State University...
01/17/2005: Technologica - Sweet and environmentally beneficial discovery: Plastics made from orange peel and a greenhouse gas from Cornell News A Cornell University...
01/09/2005: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Hey, Beavis- I'm Like, A Lake Or Something from Yahoo! News From Bevis to Butthead: Joker bureaucrat honours MTV show...
01/07/2005: Fraud & Conspiracy - Sunshine Week: Your Right to Know from SunshineWeek.org Opening a dialogue about the public's right of access to government information...
01/31/2004: Criminally Absurd - It's a time of year for best-of lists And what have we Americans enjoyed poking fun of this year? Saddam...
01/30/2004: Breaking News - UN team to probe Iraq elections from the BBC United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has said he will send...
01/30/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Busta CAPPS In Yo Ass from EFF referred by alert reader Busta Van Buren What Is CAPPS II? The "Computer...
01/30/2004: Criminally Absurd - Proposal for Georgia Schools will Eliminate "Evolution" from Curriculum via CNN ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- The state's school superintendent has...
01/30/2004: Arcanum - Pickled Dragon Mystery Cross reference "Fraud & Conspiracy" from The Sydney Morning Herald A pickled "dragon" that looks as if...
01/30/2004: Criminally Absurd - Commiecast has download limits, won't tell anybody what they are from AP via SecurityFocus By all accounts, George Nussbaum demands...
01/29/2004: Criminally Absurd - Hasselhoff claims he had hand in Berlin Wall falling from Ananova David Hasselhoff has complained to museum curators after finding...
01/29/2004: Breaking News - Nigeria Discusses Purchase of Missile Technology from DPRK from AP A Nigerian government spokesman says the vice presidents of the...
01/29/2004: Technologica - Scientists Create New Form of Matter By Maggie Fox, Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists said on Wednesday they had created...
01/29/2004: Breaking News - Yoda Stolen from Flatbed Truck From AP via the Anchorage Daily News : PASADENA, Calif. (January 29, 5:17 a.m. AST...
01/29/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Martian Air Force Denies Stories Of UFO Crash from Gusev Crater Daily Record A spokesbeing for Mars Air Force denounced...
01/28/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Parrot's Oratory Stuns Scientists By Alex Kirby, BBC The finding of a parrot with an almost unparalleled power to communicate...
01/28/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - US Computer Alert Readiness Team from Department of Home boy land Security Washington, DC – January 28, 2004 –The National...
01/28/2004: Criminally Absurd - Questions Raised Over Suicide Reported in 1979 from the "What Tipped You Off" Department reported by Associated Press Authorities have...
01/28/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Free James Brown or, booty speaketh referred by alert reader kilik from AP AIKEN, S.C. Jan. 28 - Soul singer...
01/28/2004: Urban Archaeology - Roman Soldier's Life Unfurls Old School Urban Archaeology By Sue Kiesewetter, Cincinnati Enquirer SHARONVILLE - Nearly 2000 years ago a...
01/28/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - The Panopticon Singularity an essay by The Autopope The 18th century utopian philosopher Jeremy Bentham's panopticon was a prison; a...
01/28/2004: Technologica - MyDoom Spawns More Potent Variant Use a computer? Then pay attention... unless you own a Mac By Michelle Delio, Wired...
01/28/2004: Criminally Absurd - Mc Sick, Mc Tired and Mc Can't Take It Anymore This weekend, I was on vacation with my girlfriend, redniyte...
01/26/2004: Breaking News - Part of Patriot Act Ruled Unconstitutional By Linda Deutsch Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP)--A federal judge has declared unconstitutional a...
01/26/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Break-Dancers Perform For The Pope, Get His Blessing from the Associated Press VATICAN CITY -- In an unusual spectacle at...
01/26/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Kerry Fires Back At Clark from CBS News via Drudge Report While trolling through yet another article about the Democratic...
01/26/2004: Arcanum - An excerpt from a letter that Benjamin Franklin wrote to Pennsylvania Governor Robert Norris How odious it must be to...
01/26/2004: Technologica - UD engineers building flying robot All Your Bird Are Belong To Us By Cris Barrish, Delaware News Journal Imagine an...
01/26/2004: Criminally Absurd - Underachievers' parents deny honor students By Matt Gouras, AP by way of The Seattle Times NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The school...
01/26/2004: Criminally Absurd - Nuke Workers Taped Explosive Components or Homer Simpson Finds Work in Amarillo by Matt Kelley, Associated Press WASHINGTON - Workers...
01/25/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Isn't This Technically Stalking? A Pastor in Texas is photographing people going to porn stores and strip clubs, and then...
01/25/2004: Breaking News - California Grocer's Strike is Crumbling A little update from my neck of the woods made Yahoo! Top News as it...
01/25/2004: That's Entertainment? - Those Wacky Brits Have Proof Of What We've Known All Along Thank you News of The World for clarifying what...
01/25/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Who In Their Right Mind Would Rent This Movie Anyway? A New Jersey Couple is suing Blockbuster after their daughter...
01/23/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Halliburton fires workers for allegedly taking kickbacks for Iraq contract from AP WASHINGTON (AP) Halliburton employees have been accused of...
01/23/2004: Nauru - Nauru: Frozen Funds & Lawyers from BBC & Pacific News Agency Service Australia has refused to release money from a...
01/23/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Press Gaggle with Scott Mcclellan (White House Press Secretary) Aboard Air Force One En Route Roswell, New Mexico from White...
01/23/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Flu Secrets You Should Know referred by alert reader Thomas Pain(e) from Insight Early in the 20th century an influenza...
01/23/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Yemen: A New US Base from African Intelligence.com Yemen's president, general Ali Abdallah Saleh, and his son, colonel Ahmed Saleh...
01/23/2004: Criminally Absurd - Dean delivers Top 10 probably the most blogged thing on the internet from Concord [NH] Monitor Howard Dean taped an...
01/23/2004: Breaking News - My Faith In Democracy Is Shattered or, Vote prof_booty in '04 from Chicago Sun-Times While his chief rivals for the...
01/22/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Democratic Idiots Don't Know How To Use Windows Passwords from Boston Globe WASHINGTON -- Republican staff members of the US...
01/22/2004: Criminally Absurd - Mass. Official Spent $17,000 for a TV From Associated Press BOSTON - Massachusetts' former public safety secretary spent $17,000 in...
01/22/2004: Breaking News - Sustained Budget Deficits: Longer-Run U.S. Economic Performance and the Risk of Financial and Fiscal Disarray from Deep Throat (email for...
01/22/2004: Breaking News - A Modest Proposal by prof_booty I worry that by electing a Democrat, the United States will break the Boy Scout...
01/21/2004: Criminally Absurd - Clark VS. Bush, Jr., or a Tale of Two Kosovos I have been going around lately trying to remind everbody...
01/21/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - People Who Have Their Priorities Straight from Moscow Times Cold beer going cheap. Tank and small military unit needed to...
01/21/2004: Technologica - Aerogel from "Using the Right Bait to Catch a Comet" By Chris Dixon, NY Times "When you look at this,...
01/21/2004: Criminally Absurd - RIAA Files 532 Music-Sharing Lawsuits by Ted Bridis, AP WASHINGTON - The recording industry on Wednesday sued 532 computer users...
01/21/2004: Arcanum - Sabermetrics: Which Stat is Most Important? Apologies to awiggins from ESPN Yes, we know. When you talk about statistics, you...
01/21/2004: Criminally Absurd - Kucinich Smoking Too Much Spinach from Concord (NH) Monitor Kucinich proposes public works program Rep. Dennis Kucinich proposed a massive...
01/21/2004: Nauru - All nerves and instant noodles A refugee tale takes on spy novel proportions from Dominion Post (NZ) Clandestine meetings, destroying...
01/21/2004: That's Entertainment? - Popeye at 75 with thanks to Yelmo Watertown, MA resident and "Drawing With Fred" star Fred Grandinetti was all over...
01/21/2004: Urban Archaeology - Roland Robbins: The O. G. Urban Archaeologist? "Roland Robbins's discovery of Thoreau's cabin at Walden Pond in 1945 marked the...
01/21/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Hairstyle That's A Way of Life/Have You Ever Seen A Mullet Wife? or, Mullet Night II for Manchester Monarchs from...
01/20/2004: Breaking News - Jerry Nachman, Vice President and Editor-in-Chief, MSNBC, Dies at the Age of 57 Thanks to Drudge for the info on...
01/20/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Really there is nothing going on here. Go about your business citizen. Costello pushes hearings on Cheney By Beth Hundsdorfer...
01/20/2004: Breaking News - Spliffs, Football, and Al Qaeda War On Terror On the Island of Lamu from The New Republic The sunburned Englishman...
01/20/2004: Criminally Absurd - Subaru Openly Mocks Congress, Common Sense from Valley News (VT) A new version of Subaru's Outback model coming out this...
01/20/2004: Criminally Absurd - Boy Scouts under siege from Manchester Union Leader THE CITY of San Diego recently announced a whopping gift of taxpayer...
01/20/2004: Arcanum - Relics of Ancient Burial Rites Reveal Siberian Trade Route By Charles Q. Choi, Moscow Times YEKATERINBURG, Russia -- In a...
01/20/2004: Technologica - All your email are belong to us from Reuters via CNN Sources: Google developing ad service for e-mail SAN FRANCISCO...
01/20/2004: Breaking News - Economics rumble in the jungle from Deep Throat (email for source) US Debt, public & private In the contest between...
01/20/2004: Breaking News - Beer Jill Stein wants to reprahzent Waltham from daily news tribune More than a year after Green Party candidate Jill...
01/20/2004: Breaking News - Third Place Howard... Third Place Does this mean the end? Perhaps, but I'm not willing to bank on it. It...
01/19/2004: Technologica - New York Times Blows It Again or, an entire article on pop-up blockers that doesn't mention Mozilla from NY Times...
01/19/2004: Urban Archaeology - Help for Sawin's Pond? from Living on Earth CHU: Anyone who lives near a hog farm will tell you the...
01/19/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Il Dupe: Parmalat's 4 Billion Euro Shell Game or, Similac Accounting Reuters, via Yahoo analog MyWay.com : Parmalat probe widens...
01/17/2004: That's Entertainment? - Soon to be found in a bargain bin near you... Queer Eye For The Straight Guy....ah yes. Thanks to you...
01/17/2004: Breaking News - Blame Canada 2, Mad Cow Bugaloo Tsk tsk...more infected cows found from up North according to Yahpoo I suspect a...
01/17/2004: Criminally Absurd - EU bans skateboard air security "risk" from EUPolitix Skateboards and lacrosse sticks will be banned from planes "as potentially dangerous...
01/17/2004: Breaking News - Hubble's doom in the stars: NASA to retire its telescope By Patty Reinert, Huston Chronicle WASHINGTON -- Two days after...
01/16/2004: Technologica - Doctor Who Has A Posse Dept.: BBC finds missing Dalek episode from blkdrgn by way of Slashdot and the BBC...
01/16/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Supreme Allied Funkmastah from FAS Project on Govt Secrecy Democratic presidential contender Gen. Wesley Clark today announced his intention "to...
01/16/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - New Utilities Added to Google Google seems to come up with new and useful searches about every month or so...
01/16/2004: Criminally Absurd - Severe Weather Alert from the National Weather Service from Weather.com Current Temperature 11:59AM EST 2°F NORTHWEST WINDS OF 20 TO...
01/16/2004: Criminally Absurd - Deep-fried cow brain sandwiches from AP referred by alert reader Thomas Pain(e) EVANSVILLE, Ind. - Fear of mad cow disease...
01/16/2004: Breaking News - California: Where do we stand? or, what the investment banks are saying from an investment bank ( email me for...
01/16/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Mazda, More than Meets the Eye from Mazda Check out this hot Flash animation of a Mazda RX-7 turning into...
01/16/2004: That's Entertainment? - Legitimacy and Legality of American Idol Contracts Questioned What the hell is he smiling about? Simon Fuller isn't a household...
01/16/2004: Criminally Absurd - Deconstructing Law & Order A group of bizarro conceptual artists lead by one Brandon Bird has put on a show...
01/16/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Warren Ellis goes apeshit on anti-GMO hippie fucks from his weblog die puny humans , in response to the question...
01/16/2004: Nauru - New Zealand supports continuation of Niueans on Niue from ABC News Australia The New Zealand government has reaffirmed it's commitment...
01/15/2004: Technologica - Daphnia blue-crested fish cattle or, Spammers attempt to defeat Bayesian antispam filters from Wired Daphnia blue-crested fish cattle, darkorange fountain...
01/15/2004: Breaking News - Grand Royal Up for Auction from Nillboard referred by alert reader Kilik Defunct Beastie Boys label Grand Royal shut down...
01/15/2004: Technologica - Bruce Schenier's Cryptogram Bruce Schneier, computer security guru, author of the compsec bible Applied Cryptography , has recently expanded his...
01/15/2004: Technologica - Researchers create first robot scientist? from Boston.com? Researchers said yesterday that they have created the world's first robotic scientist, a...
01/15/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Big McBrother? from Globe & Mail This is what Steve Mann was talking about, we need to become cyborgs in...
01/15/2004: Arcanum - Lion Mummy Found In Egyptian Tomb from AP For the first time, archaeologists have discovered a preserved lion skeleton in...
01/14/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - C- Span, and How it Rules The other night, I was watching deep cable (defined as any channel over #100...
01/14/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Bush's Pet Projects, aka the US Government, aka Journalistic NewSpeak Last week, Paul O'Neill charged that the invasion of Iraq...
01/14/2004: Criminally Absurd - Bicyclist Charged With OUI Agrees to Plea Bargain from Manchester Union Leader A judge won't get to rule whether an...
01/14/2004: Breaking News - U.S. military deaths in war on terrorism from UPI Click more for the list of U.S. military personnel who have...
01/14/2004: Nauru - Heavy Metal or, Nauru saturated with Cadmium from PacNews 13 JANUARY 2004 YAREN (Pacnews) - Australia's Opposition Labour Party has...
01/14/2004: Breaking News - Standard Reaction to Greenspan's Latest Speech: Utter Confusion from Google News props to rafuzo A sampling of Google news found...
01/13/2004: Technologica - Not Quite an Adrienne Barbot-Bot, But I'll Take It or, wacky Canunck prof leads the way towards human salvation from...
01/13/2004: Breaking News - US Team Visits Nuclear Site In DPRK from Control Risks Group [subscription required] An unofficial US delegation on 10 January...
01/13/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck/Urban Archaeology? - The Great 8 Last night, Cam Neely had his number retired by the Boston Bruins, becoming only the 10th player...
01/13/2004: Criminally Absurd - Banned From Performing "West Side Story" Drama Club Chooses "The Vagina Monologues." from Springfield (MA) Union-Republican AMHERST - Students from...
01/12/2004: Breaking News - Air Passenger Code Plan In Motion ...Or what color are you? From CBS News Precautions in the name of air...
01/12/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - U.S. Army War College Calls Out Bush on Iraq from FAS Project on Govt Secrecy In its "global war on...
01/12/2004: Urban Archaeology - Woman gives up on fight to save Whalom Park, returns $50,000 in donations By Crystal Bozek, Fitchburg Sentinel and Enterprise...
01/12/2004: Criminally Absurd - Archbishop lobbies against gay marriage from AP BOSTON - Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley urged Catholic lawyers Sunday to oppose gay...
01/12/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Texans showing support for their favorite state - New Hampshire or, They're crazy, don't the have the Weather Channel in...
01/12/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Authoritarian Pattern of Deliberative Exclusion or, Freakin' Ralph Nader Speaks The Truth from Manchester Union Leader Ralph Nader has heard...
01/12/2004: Breaking News - Iranian Elections from Control Risks Group [subscription required] It emerged on 11 January that the Guardian Council has banned thousands...
01/09/2004: Arcanum - Invisible Hand Saves Baby from Heritage Foundation World's economies, ranked by degree of economic freedom by Heritage Foundation and the...
01/09/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Brewery says it developed 'anti-aging' beer from Reuters BERLIN (Reuters) - A German brewery has developed a beer containing vitamins...
01/09/2004: Technologica - Mars or Bust? from NY Times [registration required] In exhorting the country to undertake an ambitious space program, Mr. Bush...
01/09/2004: Arcanum - Killington, NH? from Burlington (VT) Free Press & Manchester (NH) Union Leader Burlington (VT) Free Press A plot is afoot...
01/08/2004: Criminally Absurd - Belarus Outlaws Inflation: Gravity, Aging Next and people think we had it bad at the end of the boom. from...
01/08/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Carnegie Report on Iraqi WMD from FAS Project of Govt Secrecy "Congress and the public must learn to recognize red...
01/08/2004: Technologica - My Favorite Geologist from JPL submitted by alert reader thomas pain(e) click to enlarge This picture is from Pathfinder in...
01/08/2004: Criminally Absurd - US dollar headed down the same toilet as the Argentine peso NY Times [Registration Required] by way of BoingBoing Not...
01/08/2004: Breaking News - Why Djibouti Is Vitally Important to the War on Terror from AP All along Kenya's Indian Ocean coast, al-Qaida members...
01/08/2004: Nauru - AP Reports Hunger Strike Ends at 29 Days from AP Asylum seekers in a detention camp on the Pacific island...
01/07/2004: Criminally Absurd - I got free cable for four years and it made my family fat and lazy. I'm suing. A Wisconsin man...
01/07/2004: Nauru - The Dominion of Melchizedek The Dominion of Melchizedek does not techincally have anything to do with Nauru, but it is...
01/07/2004: Technologica - Color Picture from Spirit is Most Detailed View of Your Mom Ever Seen or, Why did I throw away those...
01/07/2004: Criminally Absurd - Potatoes! Potatoes! or, Kucinich Shows Pie Chart on Radio Debate from Yahpoo! DES MOINES, Iowa - Federal spending was the...
01/07/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Tobacco Speakeasys Are The Inevitable Result of Prohibition or, Titans Baby Titans, Santo26 Is Right Again referred by alert reader...
01/07/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Feds Work Over Homeless Guy In Radiation Scare from Washington Post On Dec. 29 in Las Vegas, the searchers got...
01/07/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Bush uses Slight of Hand, Misdirection, to Furthur Chip Away at Ameican Civil Liberties or All Your Records Are Belong...
01/07/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Follow Up: I won but lost my ticket, can I have my $162 Million anyway? from The Smoking Gun JANUARY...
01/06/2004: Breaking News - Blame Canada! Sorry Vealpen but it looks like a whole bunch of your family up north is responsible for the...
01/06/2004: Technologica - Vealpen Hacked! or, LiveJournal is teh s uck (so is Friendstah) from ISTS at Dartmouth Social networks websites, such as...
01/06/2004: Technologica - Do not be too proud of this technological terror you have constructed or, Guest to Root in 5 easy steps...
01/06/2004: Breaking News - Junk Faxers get record $5.4 Million Fine ha ha ha, wankers. HTTP requests to fax.com were not returned. from CNN.com...
01/06/2004: Breaking News - Libya confirms buying 'A-bomb' plan from Pakistan from Sify (India) Pakistan scientists have sold plans to make a nuclear bomb...
01/06/2004: Nauru - End in Sight? Nauru MP Chides Aussies from AAP & The Age (Melbourne) Some Afghan detainees on Nauru will be...
01/06/2004: Technologica - Space Station Experiencing Drop In Air Pressure or "Houston, we have a problem... again. from WKMG Florida CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla...
01/06/2004: Criminally Absurd - Club Turns Away Amputee Soldier or Lazy Cripple Makes Fashion Faux Pas from The Omaha World Hearld DES MOINES (AP...
01/06/2004: Criminally Absurd - Another January, Another Congressional Pay Raise By Jeff Jacoby A happy new year? For US senators and representatives, it certainly...
01/06/2004: Criminally Absurd - Question about flight simulator brings visit from police from Greenfield (MA) Recorder COLRAIN - An innocent inquiry to a Staples...
01/06/2004: Criminally Absurd - I won but lost my ticket, can I have my $162 Million anyway? This article details the story of a...
01/05/2004: Criminally Absurd - A Modest Proposal from AlterNet What if a poor African country could grow a plant that would fetch healthy prices...
01/05/2004: Breaking News - 'I Bet on Baseball in 1987 and 1988' Looks like Rob Neyer was right : the greatest dirtbag in baseball...
01/05/2004: Arcanum - The Curta Calculator from A Curta Fan Perhaps no calculator of any type has generated more discussion than the Curta...
01/05/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Threats to democracy? from Seattle Post-Intellingencer referred by alert reader Pain(e) Edward Wenk Jr. was the first science adviser to...
01/05/2004: Technologica - Maybe they'll find evidence of your mom or, NASA Rover Lands Safely from JPL NASA's Spirit Rover is starting to...
01/05/2004: Breaking News - New Afgan Constitution from Control Risks Group [subscription required] Delegates at the loya jirga (grand council) assembly in Kabul on...
01/05/2004: Nauru - Aussies To New Zealand: No, You Take 'Em from Australian Associated Press (AAP) A report into the asylum seekers on...
01/02/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - cars that talk, red paint smocks, imperial walkers, thaaaaaaat's on eBay Someone is auctioning off a half-scale model of an...
01/02/2004: Breaking News - MIT Helps Unlock Life-extending Secrets Of Calorie Restriction or, why Professor Booty will outlive us all CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Shedding...
01/02/2004: Criminally Absurd - prof_booty strikes out from nanosounds records mp3 (403k file) right click to "save as" or whatever. us mac freaks have...