One of the main reasons I can see for getting out of Iraq is the unpantied goat problem…we need to leave these people alone, give them some privacy, so no one dies due to a nekkid goat. Allah forbid! Goats are WMDs! pick your reason for dying… According to a recent poll conducted by Opinion…
Maybe we should host on this device?
Computer older than Christ? That’s how long it’s been trying to calculate an exit strategy for Iraq… It looks like a heap of rubbish, feels like flaky pastry and has been linked to aliens. For decades, scientists have puzzled over the complex collection of cogs, wheels and dials seen as the most sophisticated object from…
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Iraq > World War II
The war in Iraq has lasted three days longer than US involvement in World War II. Germany declared war on the US on December, 11, 1941, four days after Pearl Harbor. The US announced victory in Europe on May 8, 1945. That’s one thousand, two hundred and forty-four days. We’ve been in Iraq one thousand,…
Perpetual Motion? Maybe…
Sean McCarthy believes his small Irish high-tech company has overturned one of physics’ most fundamental laws. It happened by accident, he says. His company Steorn was looking for an efficient way to power closed-circuit TVs that spy on ATMs, and instead stumbled on a technique they think produces more energy than it consumes. The company…
The Terminator May Save Us All!!!
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday signed into law a bill that aims to make the state one of the world’s biggest producers of solar energy.The bill, which cleared the state Senate last week, calls for the installation of 1 million rooftop solar panels on homes, businesses, farms, schools and public…
Tom and Jerry Go Cold Turkey
It looks like Tom and Jerry (not to mention Barney and Fred, Yogi and Booboo) all have to give up smoking. Next thing you know they will ban those great candy cigarettes and the gum cigarettes with paper wrappers that look like smokes and blow a puff of sugar our when you exhale through them….(jeez..it’s…
On This Day – NYT
On Aug. 21, 1959, President Eisenhower signed an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.
Nepali women strip and plough to appease rain gods
By all means, appease the rain gods women! Appease the war gods! Appease all the gods! cd KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Dozens of Nepali women stripped naked and ploughed their fields in west Nepal, hoping to appease the gods and get some much needed rain, a newspaper report said on Sunday. About 50 women in two…
'No swastikas' for Nato mittens
Not often one sees “NATO” and “mittens” in the same story…. Not to mention “swastika”….. Latvians have been asked to knit mittens as gifts to delegates at a Nato summit later this year – but without a traditional swastika motif. Local craftspeople have been asked to make the mittens in an attempt to showcase Latvian…