2007-12-14
More evidence that global warming will hit harder and sooner than we'd all like to believe: 'The real, observed rate of summer ice melting is now starting to run well ahead of the models.'
Indigenous people describe the effects of global warming on their communities.
Despite being a self-proclaimed conspiracy theorist, this news does more to baffle than scare me. So the terrorists watched 'Friends' and ordered Chinese before they went out and blew up a bus. How about feeding the computers important data?
Alternet's top 10 rights & liberties stories of 2007.
2007-12-11
Human evolution is speeding up and making people less alike.
Cuba makes major moves to correct its human rights situation.
The Cardigans - I Need Some Fine Wine
2007-11-21
Religious freak and polygamist Warren Jeffs is finally sentenced to 10 years.
Religious freaks in Russia have barricaded themselves and four children inside a cave and are threatening to blow themselves up.
Religious freaks in Saudi Arabia cane and jail a woman for being abducted and gang-raped.
Religious freaks in Iraq are murdering female teachers and even attacking men for wearing clothes or haircuts seen as too Western.
Religious freaks attack a sociology professor in Japan.
2007-10-18
Snarkerati's Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time: 'A dystopia is a fictional society that is the antithesis or complete opposite of a utopia, an ideal world with a perfect social, political and technological infrastructure.'
Elephants prove they can tell the difference between humans by the scent and colour of their clothing.
The Kids in the Hall trappers, Jacques and Francoise.
2007-10-01
Bill Maher: Stop Saying Iraq Is Another Vietnam; It's Another Enron
Growing Up Gonzo: Excerpts From the Oral History of Hunter S Thompson
3D art by the Rinpa Eshidan group.
2007-09-03
Another dead, mutilated cat has been found in the Edmonton area. Over 20 cats have been found like this in the past two years. Please keep your cats indoors!
Ben Tripp: 'Maybe I just have a low tolerance for being ignored by all-powerful megalomaniacs pissing my tax dollars away to expand the reach of their personal corporate empires. Maybe I'm hypersensitive to a bunch of subnormal bureaucrats deciding how much freedom is too much for my own good.'
The secret history of a Nazi mascot.
2007-07-25
A Norwegian princess claims she can talk to angels - and for a small fee, you can too!
Tony Long: 'We've become a people that no longer respects, or apparently desires, privacy. Our own or anybody else's.'
The Kids in the Hall are sick of the Swiss.
2007-07-20
Caryl Rivers: 'More than a billion federal dollars have been poured into state abstinence-only sex-education programs, despite the fact that research shows such programs don't work.'
Sam, the shoplifting seagull, has stolen 20 packs of Doritos in 2 weeks.
2007-07-06
So I finally caved and joined Facebook. If you have clock to kill, this is the place to do it.
2007-06-23
Leah McLaren: Happy? How do you know? And does it really matter?
A fifteen-year-old A student has been suspended for suggesting that marijuana is a less dangerous drug than alcohol or nicotine.
2007-05-29
Sunbathing may prevent certain cancers: 'High doses of vitamin D can reduce the risk of developing some common cancers by as much as 50%.'
New Orleans gets ready for the hurricane season: 'Given all the uncertainties, the city's evacuation plan is simple: Get out of town before a bad storm strikes.'
Lewis Black: 'It's my firm belief that if you're the President, you absolutely have to know where you are in the time-space continuum.'
2007-02-10
Geoffrey Lean: 'Rising seas, caused by global warming, have for the first time washed an inhabited island off the face of the Earth.'
The top ten gay animals.
Barbara Ehrenreich: 'It's not enough these days for employees to slave to the bone - workplace motivators are pushing us to squeeze a smile out of our hefty workloads.'
Ten Ways to Prepare for a Post-Oil Society
Matt Raibbi: 'The Left Behind video game encourages you to celebrate the birth of Jesus by wasting dozens of people at a time, using a variety of Christ-sanctioned weapons.'