Los Angeles Mystery Missile Propelled by Whack Jobs?
Update 11/12/10: The above video was removed without explanation. The Illuminati again? Surely. But the Pentagon says it was...
Monthly Archives: November 2010
Indian Journalists, Forest Rangers Battle Sand Mafia
You heard me. “Sand Mafia.” Forest rangers in Chandigarh, India were physically attacked this week by sand-mining mobsters for...
Take a Personal Voyage for Carl Sagan’s Birthday
Corduroy-jacketed übernerd Carl Sagan shuffled off this mortal coil in 1996, but today would have been his 76th birthday....
Six Flags NOLA Saved From the Meme Graveyard
Posts this past Friday on Gizmodo, Wired’s Underwire and many points in all directions of the compass celebrated the...
UK Man Charged With Obscenity For Private Text Chat
A Swanscombe man named Gavin Smith has been charged under the UK’s Obscene Publications Act based on a private...
Paramilitary Drug Gang PR Flacks Finally Get Their Public Image Under Control
Does good press really come from the barrel of an AR-15? Or is that just Silicon Valley? In an...
Diwali, Magic and Owls
An article in New Scientist gets me worried both about the future India’s owls and just what New Scientist...
Dubya’s Memoir May Migrate to the True Crime Section
In the wake of reports that George W. Bush high-fives himself nightly over his “damn right” order to waterboard,...
Holocaust Monopoly
There’s an amazing article by CNN’s Kevin Flower about the hand-drawn Monopoly set created in the early 1940s by...
Refugee Flies Air Canada in Disguise
An unidentified Asian man in his early ’20s apparently boarded an Air Canada flight in Hong Kong disguised as...