Entries for May 2006

05/15/2006: Criminally Absurd - The Next Logical, Terrifying, Step in P.C. from Denver Post Tuesday, the Boulder City Council will take up the matter...
05/24/2005: Asshat of the Week - Thou Shall Not Enjoy Thyself from USA Today One day after a record-shattering weekend for Star Wars, Episode III: Revenge...
05/18/2005: Breaking News - ANTONIO R. VILLARAIGOSA 260,721 (58.66%) JAMES KENNETH HAHN 183,749 (41.34%) Villaraigosa Wins Majority of Miniscule Voter Turnout Antonio Villaraigosa was...
05/12/2005: Arcanum - More Secessionist Movements: The State of Jefferson The State of Jefferson is a secessionist movement that planned/ plans to unite...
05/12/2005: Technologica - LigerOS from prof_booty From: Max Power To: prof_booty Date: 05/04/2005 Re: MAC Tiger I just got upgrade, It is pretty...
05/08/2005: Criminally Absurd - Student Charged For Bringing Nails To School from AP An 11-year-old boy was arrested this week for carrying ten nails...
05/06/2005: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Broadcast Flag Defeated from Cory Doctorow of BoingBoing This morning, the DC Circuit of the US Court of Appeals struck...
05/26/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Senators Seek Repeal of Patriot Act Sunsets from FAS Project on Govt Secrecy The simmering debate about whether or not...
05/25/2004: That's Entertainment? - Marvel dives into its vast library to churn out B-level movies I'd already given up on my dream of one...
05/25/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - The Ultimate War Sim from PointlessWasteofTime A brilliant satire of the current war situation coached in terms of a Real...
05/25/2004: Criminally Absurd - Checks & Unbalances from The Library of Congress A BILL To allow Congress to reverse the judgments of the United...
05/25/2004: Breaking News - What A Big Investment House Says About Indian Elections from undisclosed source submitted by productive employee Max Power Indian elections...
05/25/2004: Technologica - Subject: SETI@home news bulletin From: SETI@home (setiathome@ssl.berkeley.edu) To: prof_booty@a... Date: 7:44 AM Received: (from setiathome@localhost) by philmor.ssl.berkeley.edu (8.9.3p2/8.9.3) id EAA05984...
05/25/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Han Solo of Nukes from LA Times [reprinted, sub required] ROCKVILLE, Md. - As they race to dismantle a global...
05/24/2004: That's Entertainment? - Book Review Corner: Rise Of The Vulcans by James Mann "The invasion of Iraq was in many ways Dick Cheney's...
05/24/2004: Urban Archaeology - "Gunkanjima" Photo Essay Gunkanjima = Battleship Island found here "Off the westernmost coast of Japan, is an island called "Gunkanjima...
05/21/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - FBI Wipes Egg Off Face, Releases Oregonian Held In Madrid Bombing from Control Risks Group [$$$ required] The FBI on...
05/21/2004: Asshat of the Week - Hastert Lectures McCain on War, Sacrifice from The Associated Press McCain, who spent five years in a North Vietnamese prison...
05/21/2004: Criminally Absurd - Pie-in-Face Contest gets Student Expelled from ABC Toledo, Ohio Tina and Don Molnar say a pie-in-the-face contest held by Danbury...
05/21/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Bulldozed love struck athenators have wool pulled over eyes? from Urban Exploration Resource Some time ago, the athenaeum ran a...
05/20/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Americanized English Words Spoken on Nick Berg Beheading Video Hardcore tinfoil hat time. posted with gratitude, but without permission from...
05/20/2004: Technologica - Claim made for new form of life from The BBC Doctors claim to have uncovered new evidence that the tiny...
05/20/2004: Criminally Absurd - Litigation Nation from Newsweek The onslaught of litigation is nothing new-nor all bad. Starting in the 1960s, crusading judges and...
05/19/2004: Technologica - Reason Magazine Makes Coolest Cover Ever A couple of days ago, I received my June 2004 copy of Reason ...
05/17/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - 50 Discrepancies in Decapitation Video Yet more fuel for this particular fire from Kuro5hin A very well-researched, non-hysterical collection of...
05/17/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Someone is loosing her job from Drudge Report An aide to Sec. of State Colin Powell ordered a halt to...
05/17/2004: Criminally Absurd - Man fights citation for carrying anti-Bush sign from the "Grandfather, what is freedom of speech?" department The Duluth News Tribune...
05/17/2004: Technologica - 'SpaceShipOne' becomes first privately funded vehicle to break through earth's atmosphere from Independent.co.uk A piloted rocket plane has blasted through...
05/17/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Doctor, who said cold fusion will work, was planning on going to DC next week to prove it, murdered. Halliburton...
05/17/2004: Criminally Absurd - Understanding the P2P War or hypocrisy of the RIAA unmasked found at Boing Boing Timothy Wu's "Copyright's Communications Policy" Tim...
05/14/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Berg, Al Qaeda linked before from New York Daily News In a bizarre coincidence, Nick Berg crossed paths with Al...
05/14/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Waltham: Forbes Magazine #3 Best Place To Get Rich from Forbes Overall Ranking: 3 Ranking for venture capital activity: 2...
05/13/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - First Annual Gatekeeper Awards from The Common Good The awards highlight the often overlooked role of judges in determining who...
05/13/2004: Urban Archaeology - Library of Alexandria discovered from The BBC Archaeologists have found what they believe to be the site of the Library...
05/12/2004: Arcanum - Housing Market To Contend With Large Development Pipeline Translation: Bad for owners, Good for renters from GlobeSt.com BOSTON-As the area...
05/12/2004: Urban Archaeology - Joy in Mudville! Pittsfield scores a first: 1791 bylaw banned 'baseball' near meetinghouse By Tony Dobrowolski Berkshire Eagle Staff PITTSFIELD...
05/11/2004: Two Cents - Iraqi Prisoner "Abuse" I have seen worse cases of "abuse" at American colleges where it is labeled hazing. Having prisoners...
05/11/2004: Criminally Absurd - I Trademarked "Your Mom!" by way of Boing Boing Big business has finally gone of the deep end. They seem...
05/11/2004: That's Entertainment? - Andy Kaufman To Come Back From The Dead This Weekend? This Sunday, May 16, 2004 is the 20th anniversary of...
05/11/2004: Technologica - Research team finds genetic blueprint from Queensland Courier-Mail An idea which could turn out to be the biggest breakthrough in...
05/10/2004: Criminally Absurd - Proposal asks Baptists to quit public schools or Reinventing the Dark Ages from The Tennessean A prominent Southern Baptist is...
05/10/2004: Technologica - The Opte Project from the same Who This project was started by Barrett Lyon as a response to a conversation...
05/05/2004: Asshat of the Week - Anhydrous Tank Tips Officers To Possible Meth Lab from KETV Nebraska OMAHA, Neb. -- A large anhydrous ammonia tank helped...
05/05/2004: Breaking News - The Unthinkable Has Happpened: Al Gore Has Bought NewsWorld International I will don the traditional robes of mourning now, but...
05/04/2004: Technologica - Hypersonic Sound Beam to revolutionize museum exhibits from Museophile Breaking all the rules of nature, the Hypersonic Sound Beam allows...
05/04/2004: Urban Archaeology - The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection from DavidRumsey.com The David Rumsey Historical Map Collection has over 10,000 maps online. The...
05/04/2004: Criminally Absurd - Girl Disciplined For Wearing Dam T-Shirt from MSNBC Observe, evil in its true form. A souvenir T-shirt from a national...
05/04/2004: Technologica - Rescue Workers Say Hybrid Cars a Danger from Yahoo! News PHILADELPHIA - The growing popularity of hybrid vehicles is a...
05/03/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Leonard Nimoy envisions God's female counterpart in gallery exhibit ''I take my work very seriously,'' from Daily Hampshire Gazette [massive...