Archive for December, 2004

Who’s really behind the oil for food ‘scandal’?

Posted in Uncategorized on December 11th, 2004

Who’s really behind the oil for food ‘scandal’? Some familiar faces… some really familiar faces.

Xi’an, in China, has some strange clubs.

Posted in Uncategorized on December 9th, 2004

Xi’an, in China, has some strange clubs. I tried to go, but I only got there at 8:45, and they’d already closed the door by then.

University of Wisconsin thanks her erstwhile landlady for the experience of communing with nature.

Posted in Uncategorized on December 9th, 2004

University of Wisconsin thanks her erstwhile landlady for the experience of communing with nature. I should count myself lucky to never have had to pay rent to that sort of crappy landlord/lady, but why did she end up renting from her for two years?

NY Yankees 2004 AL Champions sweatshirts are available.

Posted in Uncategorized on December 7th, 2004

NY Yankees 2004 AL Champions sweatshirts are available. Years down the road that might impress someone who spend this past autumn in a cave, with a cloth over his eyes and his fingers jammed in his ears.

IBM to get out of the PC business. Again.

Posted in Uncategorized on December 4th, 2004

IBM to get out of the PC business. Again. Isn’t this the third time they decide to do this? Perhaps they should think of canning those who keep starting up new PC divisions at IBM.

This is possibly the world’s most shocking toy.

Posted in Uncategorized on December 2nd, 2004

This is possibly the world’s most shocking toy. This one will please both the sadists and the masochists.

How to spot a psychopath at work.

Posted in Uncategorized on December 2nd, 2004

How to spot a psychopath at work. We ALL know people like this… let’s not pretend that we don’t.

New designer vaccine could stop HIV in its tracks, prevent new infections.

Posted in Uncategorized on December 1st, 2004

New designer vaccine could stop HIV in its tracks, prevent new infections. That’s pretty big news, if it proves effective in humans.