flickering pictures

At least in South Africa.
Frustrated with Telkom, South Africa’s biggest ISP, the cheeky staff at a South African IT company devised a race to see what would be faster: e-mailing a large file from their Pietermaritzburg offices to the city of Durban, 77 km away, or strapping a data stick to a pigeon’s leg and […]

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So the posting here has been a little slow for the last week or so — mainly because the rest of my life has been anything but. I’ve got reams of work to plow through and don’t even really have time to be posting right now, but this story was exactly the kind of […]

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Writing for an awesome-sounding newspaper called the Tulane Hullabaloo, Jeff Silberman has put together a fine op-ed piece on the silliness of a media culture that bombards us with violent music, TV shows and video games but gets squeamish when somebody says the word “nipple.”
Here’s an excerpt:

On television, for every 10,000 murders, we see one […]

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Throughout the rebel armies and refugee camps of the world, Ernesto “Che” Guevara’s name has come to symbolize struggle against oppression, and his face just might be the most recognizable on the planet. The fact that Che advocated nuking New York and brutally slaughtered his own men on the slightest suspicion of disloyalty, and […]

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A comment on America’s financial woes, as reported in the latest edition of Harper’s Weekly:

“The private market has screwed itself up,” said Representative Barney Frank (D., Mass.), “and they need the government to come help them unscrew it.”

A close second, also from Harper’s Weekly:

“My first instinct,” said President George W. Bush, “was to let the […]

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While the RIAA conjures up images of sinister high-tech pirates slaving day and night to crack the latest DRM copy protections, some guy walking by Bono’s house managed to record four tracks off U2’s upcoming album.
From the Telegraph:

The first studio album by Irish rock band U2 in four years has been leaked onto the Internet […]

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While the world looks China-ward, mesmerized by Beijing’s Olympic flash and dash, Russia has quietly mobilized its powerful military and invaded a neighbouring country.
Russia insists it stepped in to protect its citizens living in the separatist Georgian region of South Ossetia, who have faced harassment and bombings by Georgian troops. Russian officials say they […]

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About 25 young ne’erdowells are being forced to take court-ordered poetry classes after they threw a party in Robert Frost’s summer Vermont home, smashing windows and furniture and littering the property with plastic beer cups.

And yes, I came up with that headline all by myself.
From AP/AOL News:

“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” [the teacher] […]

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Remember those ads for Lifelock, an identity theft prevention company, where the firm’s CEO plasters his social security number on the sides of buses to illustrate the effectiveness of his protection services? Enter the inevitable:
From the New York Times:

Attorney David Paris said he found records of other people applying for or receiving driver’s licenses […]

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