Entries for November 2007
11/27/2007: Breaking News - Liquor Land Is A Real Nice Place...But Not For Much Longer from The Boston Globe I went back to Boston...
11/21/2005: Arcanum - Ram Bomjon: 21st Century Buddha Boy? from London Telegraph In southern Nepal, a 15 year-old boy named Ram Bomjon has...
11/21/2005: Breaking News - New Doctor Who Episode Available Online! from The BBC It may also interest you American fans who may not have...
11/21/2005: Nauru - Most Nauru Detainees Heading To Australia; Two To Remain from BBC World News Asia-Pacific After four years of being detained...
11/09/2005: Criminally Absurd - from The Blue Dog Coalition Throughout the first 224 years (1776-2000) of our nation's history, 42 U.S. presidents borrowed a...
11/04/2005: Technologica - New Power Source Could Shake Up the Physics Community, the World from Guardian Unlimited It seems too good to be...
11/23/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - This is entry #911! "Get up, get up, get up, get up down. 911 is a joke in your town....
11/23/2004: Urban Archaeology - Sawin's Pond: On The EPA's Radar from the Watertown TAB (not the Press or Sun) Town cited by EPA By...
11/18/2004: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Bringing the Library of Congress Newspapers Online from CNN via /. "If you want to read a newspaper article from...
11/17/2004: Technologica - Car Manufacturers Are Putting Black Boxes In Cars Already! I first heard about this story from FOX News but in...
11/17/2004: Criminally Absurd - GOP may change rule to aid DeLay from SFGate House Republicans proposed changing their rules Tuesday night to allow members...
11/17/2004: Fraud & Conspiracy - Students Tracked By RFID It has begun. from The NY Times (invasion of privacy required) In front of her gated...
11/17/2004: Criminally Absurd - Sympathy for the guppy: PETA campaign pitches fish as smart and sensitive from SFGate Touting tofu chowder and vegetarian sushi...
11/10/2004: Criminally Absurd - The Big Dig Is Leaking? Say It Ain't So, Ted! from Yahoo! News Top Stories Wow, could you imagine if...
11/08/2004: That's Entertainment? - Wrestling Legend Jake "The Snake" Roberts Found Guilty Of Animal Cruelty from crazywriterinla from 411mania.com Jake "The Snake" Roberts has...
11/03/2004: Breaking News - Do Elections Really Matter to the Economy? from undisclosed source, courtesy of alert reader Max Power Note: Names that might...
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11/30/2003: Technologica - Discovery Kids Ultimate Labs DNA Explorer from Popular Science ... this kit from Discovery Kids--the first to feature a bona...
11/30/2003: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - McCain for President 2004 from Reuters by way of CNN WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Leading Republican Sen. John McCain Sunday berated...
11/30/2003: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Evidence of Ancient Roman Geeks Unearthed Lot Description: A ROMAN GLASS GAMING DIE, Circa 2nd Century A.D. Deep blue-green in...
11/30/2003: Urban Archaeology - Map of part of East Watertown, MA from 1935. This week's edition of the Watertown (MA) Tab and Press features...
11/30/2003: Criminally Absurd - Here is an article that got passed my way from blkdrgn from MSNBC called "GOP spending bills grow" . Clinton...
11/29/2003: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Me With My New CD Player from commerical director Noble Jones Scroll Down To Groovin...
11/29/2003: Fraud & Conspiracy - The Horn's Bright New Hope from UN Integrated Regional Information Networks Nestling between foes Eritrea and Ethiopia, with strife-torn Somalia...
11/28/2003: Fraud & Conspiracy - An EJ Mini-Rant from crazywriterinla I don't know how newsworthy it is, but I found this to be a solid...
11/27/2003: Arcanum - Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation from some guy The year that is drawing towards its close has been filled with the...
11/27/2003: Technologica - Here is a piece crazywriterinla sent about a Indian Fakir who says he doesn't have to eat or drink from...
11/27/2003: Breaking News - Thus Spake William F. Weld Weld supports gay marriage ruling By Frank Phillips, Globe Staff, 11/27/2003 William F. Weld, the...
11/26/2003: Criminally Absurd - Violent video games are training children to kill By Bill France, Herald Net In the baseless argument that video games...
11/26/2003: Fraud & Conspiracy - Inflaming college students everywhere If you're like me, you've read some of cunning linguist Noam Chomsky's writing and wondered what...
11/26/2003: Criminally Absurd - A 12-year-old Siloam Springs, Arkansas boy has been has been convicted of a felony terrorist act for shooting the windows...
11/26/2003: Technologica - Gravity And Chaos "The Gravity and Chaos Club at Western Washington University dropped 4000+ balls 70 feet through one of...
11/26/2003: Criminally Absurd - L.A. Wants to End 'Master' and 'Slave' Equipment By Dan Whitcomb, Reuters LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Los Angeles officials have...
11/26/2003: Fraud & Conspiracy - One Man Against Secrecy, Newsletter Editor Works to Limit Classified Information By Dana Priest, Washington Post Steven Aftergood, director of...
11/26/2003: Fraud & Conspiracy - Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you The oliogopolies . They rule ...
11/26/2003: Breaking News - Go Ahead, Throw Your Vote Away from Boston.com By Mark Stricherz Primary colors How a little-known task force helped create...
11/26/2003: Technologica - Follow Up: spacemen need their sunscreen By Robert Roy Britt, Space.com Space.com has chosen the top 10 images taken by...
11/26/2003: Technologica - 1,000 Times Too Many Humans? By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News A study that compared humans with other species concluded there...
11/26/2003: Breaking News - There is a new Strong Bad Email ...
11/26/2003: Urban Archaeology - The West End of Boston was a section of the city which was razed in the name of urban renewal...
11/25/2003: Breaking News - Let me clarify my position about my opposition to the Medicare reform bill. The Medicare program provides free health care...
11/25/2003: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Pretty soon we'll need a section dedicated to Triumph the insult comic dog. For now, milkandcookies.com has the video you...
11/25/2003: Criminally Absurd - Colleges Trail Prisons in Funds By Marcella Bombardieri from The Boston Globe For the first time in at least 35...
11/25/2003: Technologica - When Cash Is Only Skin Deep By Julia Scheeres from Wired As we usher in the New Year, 1984, I...
11/25/2003: Technologica - spacemen need their sunscreen ...because the sun will fuck you up. Buried beneath underreported stories about Halliburton's contract to sell...
11/25/2003: Urban Archaeology - The Art of The Growth Ordinance I think one of the most important debates going on right now in Massachusetts...
11/25/2003: Fraud & Conspiracy - Laying his cards on the table Have indeed the democrats 'bent over'? Orson Scott Card says, if they have, it's...
11/25/2003: Criminally Absurd - Senate to pass Medicare reform bill after delay from Forbes. A seemingly innocent story about the government passing a bill...
11/25/2003: Breaking News - Maybe I Was A Little Harsh With The Llama Thing In an editorial in today's Keene Sentinel , the press...
11/24/2003: Fraud & Conspiracy - This Congress Is The Most Gutless Ever from Wired by way of Slashdot "Congress approved a bill on Friday that...
11/24/2003: Nauru - Here is a Q&A that The Bristish Broadcasting Corporation did about the "Pacific Solution" from 2002. "Q&A: Australia's 'Pacific Solution...
11/24/2003: Nauru - Calls continue for release of Nauru asylum seekers from The Australian Broadcasting Corporation Political and community groups in Australia have...
11/24/2003: Fraud & Conspiracy - When you die, you become something worse than dead; you become a legend. Chris Hitchens turns in one of his...
11/24/2003: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Your Moment of Zen from Goffstown (NH) News "Crunchy the Llama makes library visit." Maybe Mike Barnicle was right about...
11/24/2003: Criminally Absurd - Where are the missing Iraqis? While it is all well and good to question exactly what the fuck the United...
11/24/2003: Criminally Absurd - Two for One Special Disney Delivers Hospital a Nasty Hook from The Sydney Morning Herald Walt Disney has pulled out...
11/24/2003: Technologica - applying technology to keep you hip " Memeufacture is a weblog with automated trend tracking. It scans hundreds of websites...
11/24/2003: Criminally Absurd - The Last Straw from Boston.com "BOSTON (AP) Gov. Mitt Romney will approve both a new statewide smoking ban and a...
11/24/2003: Technologica - Isn't it Enronic, Don't You Think? Tirade courtesy of crazywriterinla referencing this Yahoo story. "So, first they say "we need...
11/23/2003: Criminally Absurd - Man Blamed for the 'Metrosexual' Says 'Sorry' - and Outs Himself As 'Lesbosexual' from The Haworth Press BINGHAMTON, N.Y., Nov...
11/23/2003: Breaking News - Georgian Leader Signs Resignation Papers from the Associated Press TBILISI, Georgia Nov. 23 - Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze was signing...
11/23/2003: Breaking News - Tom Friedman in London from NY Times [registration required] "If the 1990's were the era of "Davos Man," the 2000's...
11/23/2003: Criminally Absurd - N.Korea Berates Rumsfeld as Worse Than Hitler from Reuters SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea issued a blistering attack on Donald...
11/23/2003: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - U.S. Passes Anti-Internet Spam Bill By Andy Sullivan from Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives has voted...
11/23/2003: Breaking News - DATELINE CENTER BARNSTEAD, NH (wackynews)- Democratic Presidential nominee Richard Gephardt visited the local Dunkin Donuts here today. When asked about...
11/23/2003: Breaking News - Article#3: The workers must control the means of media production! THOMAS PAINE This site has been up for less than...
11/22/2003: Fraud & Conspiracy - F B Eye On You from alert reader crazywriterinla NY Times article [registration required] "The Federal Bureau of Investigation has...
11/22/2003: Breaking News - Georgia On His Mind referred by crazywriterinla CNN is reporting about a coup attempt in the former Soviet republic of...
11/22/2003: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Local Webmaster Makes Good Recently in the Athenaverse, webmaster awiggins has taken the Athenaeum to Phase II. His tireless hours...
11/22/2003: Technologica - It's Not A Star, It's A F*ckin Satelitte Xinhua , the state news outlet for the People's Republic, is reporting...
11/21/2003: Nauru - Unkept Promises from Inter Press Service "The United States has pulled off a virtual coup in the tiny South Pacific...
11/21/2003: Arcanum - Gilgamesh from ancientx.com "This Assyrian version of the Old Testament flood story was identified in 1872 by George Smith, an...
11/21/2003: Technologica - The Relatively New Hotness Here at the athenaeum, we strive to bring to the most relatively timely information. It has...
11/21/2003: Criminally Absurd - Appeals Court Reinstates Wrongful Death Suit Against Gun Industry By David Kravets, Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal...
11/21/2003: Criminally Absurd - from The Smoking Gun He, he, he, he, priceless...
11/21/2003: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Damone Music is in such a sorry state these days. I often wonder if music as performed by actual people...
11/20/2003: Fraud & Conspiracy - Just A Question of Time, And They're Coming After You from The Register by way of Slashdot "An appeals court...
11/20/2003: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - Crossing the Streams Today, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog is appearing on Fresh Air , an afternoon radio talk show...
11/20/2003: Stuff that Doesn't Suck - FC Kahuna's Debut Video "Hayling" found at The Ministry of Sound Sweet song, cool graphics, a must see! Check it...
11/20/2003: Technologica - Termination Shock According to this NASA press release from a few weeks back, Voyager is approaching or has passed through...
11/20/2003: Technologica - Move aside DVD, here comes the EVD Dammit, I just bought a DVD player. NOW your telling me it is...
11/19/2003: Criminally Absurd - Hey, No Dancing While Drinking! According to this article in the Waitsfield, VT Valley Reporter , it is illegal for...
11/19/2003: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - 'Family Guy' May Return By Gary Levin, USA Today Baby Stewie could be staging a comeback. In a sign of...
11/19/2003: Breaking News - Since we live in Massachusetts, we would be remiss in not mentioning that our Commonwealth' s Supreme Court has ruled...
11/19/2003: Technologica - Beware of the Penguin The Christian Science Monitor has a blog covering recent Linux success stories. Good primer if you...
11/19/2003: Urban Archaeology - What is Urban Archaeology? Urban Archaeology is the study of the past in the area in which one lives. Our...
11/19/2003: Arcanum - Easter Island's Decaying Statues Await Facelift By Ignacio Badal from Reuters Caretakers of the cracked and crumbling Moai fret that...
11/19/2003: Technologica - prof_booty .mp3's from The Register mp3.com most probably will not be archived on the Way Back Machine . Time is...
11/18/2003: Technologica - Substandard Model According to this BBC article , physicists at the High Energy Accelerator Research Organisation in Tsukuba, Japan have...
11/18/2003: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - The Work of Master Street Painter Kurt Wenner Wenner, once employed by NASA as an "advanced scientific space illustrator," later...
11/18/2003: Criminally Absurd - Mom Petitions To Get Puberty Book Removed From Library Weld Library District Discusses Book Mother Calls 'Mildly Pornographic' from AP...
11/18/2003: Breaking News - Michael Jackson is Going Down, Apparently in More Than One Way. By Matt Bean from Court TV 45 years old...
11/18/2003: Criminally Absurd - Temporary Victory for Freedom from Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise "The effort to impose a statewide smoking ban in all workplaces...
11/18/2003: Fraud & Conspiracy - From Hero, to Whistle-Blower, to Celebrity Jessica Lynch's story is turning 'into a monster' for the Bush administration Lynda Hurst...
11/17/2003: Arcanum - The Library of Congress Map Collection: 1500-2003 Thousands of maps from the past 500 years are online for your perusal...
11/17/2003: Arcanum - Near-Extinct "Whistling Language" Returns By SARAH ANDREWS at Red Nova SAN SEBASTIAN, Canary Islands (AP) -- Juan Cabello takes pride...
11/17/2003: Nauru - Operation Weasel "In recruiting Nauru into the war on terror, the US also went after a bigger target: North Korea...
11/17/2003: Urban Archaeology - The MBTA's "A Line" The MBTA subway system in Boston has 4 major lines. The Green Line (and the Mattapan...
11/17/2003: Technologica - VoIP Tell Verizon to shove it. Link goes to Slashdot article. While you are there, check out the article on...
11/17/2003: Criminally Absurd - Battle for the Booze: The New Attack on Alcohol from Modern Drunkard Magazine Eight uniformed policemen storm into the bar...
11/17/2003: Arcanum - The Vermont Manifesto Times-Argus article VermontSoverignty.org "While Naylor in his book also fantasizes about joining New Hampshire and Maine as...
11/17/2003: Technologica - Powder with the power to transform the world By Richard Macey from The Sydney Morning Herald November 17, 2003 In...
11/17/2003: Technologica - World Record Holder in Centipede, Dig-Dug, Super Zaxxon, Tron, and Domino Man from Lawrence Eagle Tribune "Anybody who can simultaneously...
11/16/2003: Technologica - The Theory Formerly Known As Strings Did you watch the whole three hour Elegant Universe show about the TOE? I...
11/16/2003: Nauru - A Nauru Compendium Warning: Obnoxious use of Midi music ahead...
11/16/2003: Fraud & Conspiracy - The Value of Diamonds is a Myth. An unruly market may undo the work of a giant cartel and of...
11/16/2003: Technologica - The Potential of Nanotechnology...
11/16/2003: Fraud and Conspiracy - http://subgenius.com...
11/16/2003: Technologica - Taikonauts Ahoy! from China View Shenzhou-5 Launch Successful, Astronaut in Space JIUQUAN, Gansu, Oct. 15 (Xinhuanet) -- China's first...
11/15/2003: Fraud & Conspiracy - Poetry And Photographs By GravyDave Click here for close up 0305gravydave Or this one 0305gravydave2 "My writing, I use simple...
11/15/2003: Technologica - from Slashdot TOE? No, not what's on your foot, the Theory of Everything. Nova has placed a three hour series...
11/15/2003: Bob Dobbs Has His Day In Court - DATELINE WALTHAM MA (wackynewswire)- Chief Justice of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts F'n Fnord declared that he would not remove the...
11/14/2003: Arcanum - from Oxford English Dictionary n. Athenæum 1. Gr. Antiq. The temple of Athene in ancient Athens, in which professors taught...
11/14/2003: Doctor Who Continues To Have A Posse - from Slashdot New Doctor Who Animated Series. Maybe it will be easier to download than the Star Wars series...
11/14/2003: Nauru - from The Australian "HOURS after Bali's Sari Club was incinerated by terrorists, Rene Harris, president of Nauru, was sent an...
11/14/2003: Nauru - The Republic of Nauru An oval-shaped island lying near the equator, Nauru is the smallest republic in the world. Capital...
11/14/2003: Technologica - MP3.com Does its Impression of David Caruso's Career last chance to download prof_booty songs: http://www.mp3.com/prof_booty "CNET Networks, Inc announced today...
11/14/2003: Fraud & Conspiracy - Court Refuses Bail to Former Yukos Chief from Control Risks Group Subscription Required The Moscow City Court on 11 November...
11/14/2003: Technologica - Concept from Bombardier set to compete against the Segway. from Forbes ' Dan Lienert Infinitely cooler then a Segway (or...
11/14/2003: Fraud & Conspiracy - Patriot Act Blasted at Forum from http://www.masslive.com "A Sri Lankan citizen who is married to an American woman, Dharmaraja suspects...
11/14/2003: Technologica - Scientists Gain on Artificial Organism from Associated Press by way of RedNova.com By H. JOSEF HEBERT WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists...
11/13/2003: Article #2: Athenaverse.com: Sealand of the Internet? - So why would I compare our newborn website with a soverign nation? I say this because Sealand is the result...
11/13/2003: Criminally Absurd - Job-Cutting CSX Corp. to Buy $1 Million in Super Bowl Tickets from The Associated Press Published: Nov 13, 2003 JACKSONVILLE...
11/13/2003: Technologica - CDs Could be History in Five Years from Ananova Compact discs could be history within five years, superseded by a...
11/13/2003: Urban Archaeology - Housing Plan Centers Around Rail Lines from Daily News Transcript "As part of an effort to promote "smart growth" around...
11/13/2003: Fraud & Conspiracy - RIAA Sequentially Repeating Edison's Mistakes from mp3newswire.net By George Ziemann 10/14/03 There is something that I find incredibly mystifying about...
11/13/2003: Urban Archaeology - Take a look at some of Boston's fading past at Forgotten Boston or Take a look at the parent site...
11/13/2003: Technologica - "Stem cell 'immortality' gene found." Sounds like Larry Nivens "boosterspice" is in our futures. from NewScientist.com...
11/13/2003: Technologica - Top 10 Science Scams of All-Time from The Guardian Thursday November 13, 2003 Fifty years after Piltdown man was exposed...
11/13/2003: Fraud & Conspiracy - Foster's Daily Democrat, NH "LaRouche, who has run in every election since 1976 with little support, is not recognized by...
11/13/2003: Doctor Who Has A Posse - Doctor Who returns to BBC ONE from The BBC Doctor Who, one of the BBC's best-loved and most enduring characters...
11/13/2003: Technologica - from Cardera "Cardea is the latest robot of the Humanoid Robotics group at the MIT CSAIL. It locomotes using a...
11/13/2003: Criminally Absurd - Stiffer and Stiffer from The Valley News "After reading about laws prohibiting "possession by consumption," it's hard not to wonder...
11/13/2003: Sealand - http://www.sealandgov.com/ http://www.fruitsofthesea.demon.co.uk/sealand/ http://www.havenco.com...
11/12/2003: Stuff That Doesn't Suck - a message from the people's republic of your mother submitted by rafuzo we will fu*k with your sh*t...
11/12/2003: Richat Structure - http://rove.to/mauritania/richat-structure/ Call for papers coming soon...
11/12/2003: Article #1: What Are We Doing? - What are we doing here at the Athenaeum? I purchased this piece of Internet real estate in 2000, and for...