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• Don't blame Miss Bimbo

  Mon Mar 31, 2008
  • Parents of one fearful variety or another have been complaining about indecency on the Net and the possibility that their poor John or Jill might see said material ever since the Internet's mass adoption within suburban America.

• Writer's Strike IS OVER!

  Fri Feb 8, 2008
  • It's over," Eisner said. "They made the deal, they shook hands on the deal. It's going on Saturday to the writers in general." Now start writing up those episodes of 24, LOST, and Battlestar Galactica, please.

• Confessions of a young (male) Hillary supporter

  Tue Feb 5, 2008
  • My mom, however, noticed a world of change when she drove the car. Routinely, women who saw her around the neighborhood or at the office would stop and say something to her about the bumper sticker. She laughed when telling me the story a few weeks later.

• Holland to Become World's First Floating Country

  Mon Feb 4, 2008
  • But the point is, suddenly, climate change is no longer a dire threat, but an opportunity for innovation. "There are infinite possibilities. That's the idea," Zevenbergen says. "Everything is in fact possible. Nothing is impossible. Sounds crazy, eh?" Or not.

• Sudan's ex-Guantanamo prisoners demand payout

  Sat Jan 26, 2008
  • One of Hamad's daughters died during his detention because his wife could not afford medical treatment. Let's capture aid workers, torture them, and not give back any compensation so their families are left without any feasible means of supporting themselves!

• Mark Steyn: First, they came for Piglet

  Sat Jan 26, 2008
  • It's like some sort of crazy reverse diplomacy: "we're going to anticipate that any terrorist attacks anyone does will also hurt their own cause so we'll be ahead of the game by a couple of steps!"

• German government caught buying malware to intercept Skype calls

  Sat Jan 26, 2008
  • Perhaps there's a connection to this old article on Germany and its frustrations with Skype...

• Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?

  Sat Jan 19, 2008
  • Meanwhile, someone is posting to newsgroups under McKinstry's name. "I have always been and will always be," one message read. "I am forever." Strange doesn't even begin to cover it... (mostly because I'm really feeling the Lain vibe from this particular story)

• Geneticists Discover a Way to Extend Lifespans to 800 Years

  Wed Jan 16, 2008
  • Destroying ourselves won't be the least of our worries...at least by conventional methods.

• Geneticists Discover a Way to Extend Lifespans to 800 Years

  Wed Jan 16, 2008
  • It involves tinkering with two genes, and cutting down your calorie intake. Tests have already started on people in Ecuador. Cutting down my calorie intake? *cue American obesity joke* Let's hope this particular form of genetic "tinkering" doesn't backfire, of course.