Dead Customer Pool

work had this thing at Dooly’s for a couple of hours. A “release party” or something. We played a little...

Red speck a huge new planet, team says

A reddish speck photographed near a dim and distant star last year is indeed a planet, about five times the...

Urban Legend: Grave Statement

Photograph shows headstone marking the grave of lawyer Johnnie Cochran. Status: False. The image is, of course, a fake (Cochran...

U.S. Shows Some Parallels With Argentina of ’90s

The U.S. is not Argentina. Certainly not. Real wages in this country aren’t 20 percent lower than they were seven...

Urban Legend: Photographs show a sandstorm in Iraq.

Images are purportedly photographs of a sandstorm in Al Asad, Iraq, taken on 26 April 2005. Status: True, apparently We...

RSS Problems fixed?

Had a bit of a problem with my rss feed after moving my blog from one folder to another. Also...

But Did He Inhale?

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. And sometimes, according to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, a cigar is an...

Microsoft admits failure to deliver

Microsoft has slammed its XP operating system admitting to hardware developers in Seattle that the company has failed to deliver...

Desktop nuclear fusion demonstrated

An astonishingly simple demonstration of nuclear fusion in a tabletop device has been performed, involving heating an ordinary crystal soaked...

Canada’s Martin, Who Erased Deficits, Finds Taste for Spending

Paul Martin, who as Canadian finance minister erased a quarter-century of budget deficits, is abandoning fiscal prudence with a multi-billion-dollar...