when you've sat in the dirt, surrounded by the cousins ( Read more... )

Nipple ring search procedures faulty, TSA admits

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- The Transportation Security Administration said Friday its officers at a Texas airport appear to have properly followed procedures when they allegedly forced a woman to remove her nipple rings -- one with pliers -- but acknowledged the procedures should be changed.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, I met several travellers who had been caught up in the events below and decided their future lay outside the Land Of Hope And Glory.

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Part II is behind the cut ( Read more... )

The somewhat legendary Steve Albini breaks down the reality of bands "making it bigtime" by scoring a major-label record contract. You can read the full rant if you like, but I'll cut to the chase:

The Balance Sheet: This is how much each player got paid at the end of the game.

Record company ................. 710,000 ( Read more... )

http://www.comlaw.gov.au/comlaw/Legislation/ActCompilation1.nsf/0/B4D3BDCF39F50373CA2572BF0002E95D?OpenDocument

155 Date for close of Rolls
(1) The date fixed for the close of the Rolls is the third ( Read more... )

New Scientist's special report: Climate change: A guide for the perplexed lists and debunks the 26 most common myths about global anthropogenic climate change. With links to primary sources and a guide to reading the data.

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Exxon-Mobil funds the denial industry

Well, that's a surprise, innit?

Edited:

ExxonMobil has adopted the tobacco industry's disinformation tactics, as well as some of the same organizations and personnel, to cloud the scientific understanding of climate change and delay action ... funneled nearly $16 million between 1998 and 2005 to a network of ( Read more... )

Further to recent discussions with noteris I present A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection. This is a very long article, it's late, and I'm off to bed. I've barely scratched the surface. But so far it makes for an interesting read. Discussion is invited. I hope to read the whole thing in the next few days.

in order to work, Vista's ( Read more... )

Now, I don't know whether this is a piss-take or for real, but either way, as an example of the human tendency to put two and two together and come up with 22, here's a proof that Morrisey prophecied the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.

The Diana-Morrisey Phenomenon

I always thought that line was "a boar between archers", not "arches". Well, ( Read more... )

Partying Miss Nevada stripped of title for snogging girls and showing her bits. Five years ago.

But it's the following which galls:

Rees' attorney issued a statement which read: "Katie Rees, Miss Nevada USA, wants the public to know she was 17 and had a lapse in judgment. The actions on that evening in subject are in no way indicative of the ( Read more... )