Still awaiting DSL installation at the new place… As you might have guessed, blogging is going to be kinda limited for awhile.

myimages/digital-vinyl.png” alt=”” hspace=”10″ vspace=”10″ align=”right”>Verbatim is now offering CD-Rs that look like old vinyl 45s. [via Amateur Hour]

Hey kids, let’s play Gulf War 2! This is a projection of the most likely outcome of a new war in the Gulf. I used sophisticated temporal algorithms and historical semiotic analysis to achieve an accuracy rating of 99.999%. It’s … Continue reading →

MetaFilter links to the city of Kaliningrad a.k.a. the ancient city of Königsberg, home of the famous 7 bridges topology problem. Post WWII life under the Soviet Union wasn’t kind to Kaliningrad, which is now one of the ugliest cities … Continue reading →

Ladies and gentlemen, the State Of The Union Drinking Game Daypop Top 40]

The Village Voice looks at military research into development psychoactives that will prevent soldiers from feeling guilty about the people they kill in war. Happy fscking Monday. [via Politics in the Zeros]

Emma of Late Night Thoughts offers an excellent primer on how to recognize propaganda, with specific reference to how it’s being used in The Current Situation. Worth reading no matter where you stand. Emma’s analysis of the post-Gulf War II … Continue reading →

The Daily Breeze quotes veteran White House journalist Helen Thomas (whose recently exchange with Ari Fleischer about unelected leaders made the rounds of the blogosphere) on the quality of the current presiding executive: She seemed to have sympathy and affection … Continue reading →

From the AP Wire: An American writer and two hikers emerged smiling from the Colombian jungle Friday after being escorted from a war zone by right-wing paramilitaries but leftist rebels still held captive two other foreign journalists. Robert Young Pelton, … Continue reading →

The Cyborger will tell you what your name would mean if you happened to be a shallow imitation of humanity with a dark purpose.