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Monthly Archives: January 2005
More on Boston Terror Threat
More details on the rapidly developing Boston Terror story, this just in from the Boston Herald. The one on the lower left looks like a kid who was in our class last summer…. Boston terror threat probed By Tom Farmer … Continue reading
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Ebola Comes to Campus
The theme of the day seems to be "Reasons to be Afraid". Before all the hubbub about the imminent terrorist attack on Boston, we were preoccupied with the story that three researchers at a Boston University biolab have managed to … Continue reading
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Boston Under Terror Alert
Mayor Mumbles of Boston just gave a most disconcerting press conference in which he basically confirmed that the FBI had informed him of a specific threat against the city of Boston. He did not offer ANY details of what the warning … Continue reading
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The Next War
The President has signed a series of findings and executive orders authorizing secret commando groups and other Special Forces units to conduct covert operations against suspected terrorist targets in as many as ten nations in the Middle East and South … Continue reading
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Sleepless in Kamen-Kashirsky
A 63-year-old man who hasn’t slept for more than two decades has been told there is nothing wrong with him by doctors. Ukrainian Fyodor Nesterchuk from the town of Kamen-Kashirsky said the last time he managed to doze off was … Continue reading
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This is Your Brain on Politics
Today’s "Triple-Play Award" for speculative bullshit science given an absurd political interpretation and then mis-represented by the Major Media goes to a study by a UCLA Psych professor on the brain functioning of Democrats and Republicans while they were watching … Continue reading
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Juice and Donuts
Plagued by falling sales and unable to borrow money, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts announced today the retirement of its chief executive and hired as his successor a specialist in corporate reorganizations who is already running the Enron Corporation. The new boss, … Continue reading
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The Gray Lady Dithers
We love it when the various voices on our computer sound like they’re talking to each other. Sometimes they actually are, but mostly it is just serendipitous juxtapositioning which nevertheless exposes counterbalance and fault lines in arguments which would be invisible … Continue reading
Praise for the Pajamahadeen
One of the factors that has made English the dominant global language (overwhelming military, economic and cultural hegemony may have something to do with it as well) is the plasticity and adjustability of its lexicon. Unlike Spanish or French, there … Continue reading
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Praise for Pajamahadeen
One of the factors that has made English the dominant global language (overwhelming military, economic and cultural hegemony may have something to do with it as well) is the plasticity and adjustability of its lexicon. Unlike Spanish or French, there … Continue reading
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Apple Sues Harvard Freshman
Apple Computer announced today that they are suing a 19-year-old Harvard freshman for a Macintosh News and Rumors web site (thinksecret.com) he has been running since he was 13. The kid in question, Nicholas M. Ciarelli (’08, pen name Nick … Continue reading
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