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Monthly Archives: December 2005

December 29, 2005 | Politics

What Eliot Weinberger Heard About Iraq in 2005

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Eliot Weinberger wrote an essay entitled What I heard about Iraq in 2005. Sadly, the dwindling number of supporters of…

December 29, 2005 | General Geek Culture

Autosurfing

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So Akeva rocks up with the latest online referral/pyramid scheme, known as Autosurfing. You download something, it takes over Internet…

December 29, 2005 | Religion & Philosophy, Science & Technology

A Monkey’s Uncle

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PZ Meyers links to an interview with Mel Gibson, and calls him a “clueless turd” for this statement: PLAYBOY: So…

December 29, 2005 | Point Of View, Religion & Philosophy

For the Thunder God Cometh

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The Exorcist scared the living daylights out of most us. Then Scary Movie made some of us laugh at it….

December 23, 2005 | Fun & Humour

The Confidential Room

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In the true spirit of giving as Christmas day approaches, I give you… Donald Rumsfeld and Richard Cheney slash fiction….

December 20, 2005 | Science & Technology

Golden Oldies

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Is there anything as sexy as vintage technology? Probably not according to the regular visitors to the Valve Page. Vintage…

December 20, 2005 | General Geek Culture

Site of the Year

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If there’s one thing I hate (among the thousands of other things) it’s Site of the Year nominations. The Webbies…

December 19, 2005 | Politics

Theroux on Africa

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Paul Theroux has an excellent opinion piece in the New York Times on Africa and foreign aid. Himself a member…

December 3, 2005 | Politics

The Fairy Tale That Leads America

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To which degree is America’s foreign policy (and has its foreign policy always been) driven by religion? To a very…

December 1, 2005 | Politics

The Bush in the Bubble

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Some more insight into the strange, simple world of George W. Bush, this time from the Washington Post reporting on…