World's first musical sandwich ( Read more... )

Here is a website I'm addicted to (thanks to Warren Ellis For the link ( Read more... )

"Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war." - Otto Von Bismarck

Russian squirrel pack 'kills dog ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday to Woody Allen who is turning 70 today. Allen is one of the all time great comedians and filmakers who's work ranks up there with only Charlie Chaplin as being some of the most profound, creative and downright hilarious. Allen managed to protray a certain humanity in his work without descending into abysmal schmaltz, a task that ( Read more... )

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This was writ by my good friend Nick "Arkan" Meyers and published in the Eugene Reigster Guard. I think its brilliant ( Read more... )

Everyone is seriously into torture these days.

The Iraqis have gotten into torture again, despite the fact that they seem to deny the whole thing. A lot of the pictures of the severe beatings given to prisoners that I've seen look a lot like Michael Kelly's description in "Martyr's Day" of a lot of what was inflicted upon the Kuwaitis by the ( Read more... )

UN debut for $100 laptop for poor ( Read more... )

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the day Yitzhak Rabin was shot by Israeli hardliners because he signed the Oslo accords in an attempt to make peace with the Palestinians. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4431728.stmRead more... )