Tampon-Sized Snacks, Why Women Don't Eat, by Rachel Kessler (03/22/01)

"Tucking away a one-and-a-half-by-three-inch chewy vitamin and mineral supplement is not eating. It is a formal act of consumption, and a temporary measure to keep one from fainting."

Microbial Fuel Cells

via Boing Boing.

"Lin's microbial fuel cell is just .07 centimeter square in area. Even more amazing though is that this fuel cell is built to operate inside your body. The idea is that the microbial fuel cell would power implantable medical devices such as spinal cord stimulation devices or internal drug delivery systems."

The Chickenhawk Database

"The alleged "gentlemen" listed in this database are here because they share three qualities: bellicosity (a warlike manner or temperament), public prominence, and a curious lack of wartime service when others their age had no trouble finding the fight."

Comments are gone....

I've turned off the comment system until I can find a better solution for them. The system that I've been using is a free deal from enetation in the United Kingdom, but it's reduced the load times for my page to ridiculous amounts. I like the comments, but I think that I'm going to develop a custom PHP system for it myself. Stay tuned....

The Privatization of Water

"So a handful of transnational corporations, backed by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, are aggressively taking over the management of public water services in countries around the world, dramatically raising the price of water to the local residents and profiting especially from the Third World's desperate search for solutions to its water crisis. Some are startlingly open; the decline in freshwater supplies and standards has created a wonderful venture opportunity for water corporations and their investors, they boast. The agenda is clear: Water should be treated like any other tradable good, with its use determined by the principles of profit."
- From The Nation

How PR Sold the War in the Persian Gulf

"If I wanted to lie, or if we wanted to lie, if we wanted to exaggerate, I wouldn't use my daughter to do so. I could easily buy other people to do it."
--Saud Nasir al-Sabah, Kuwait's Ambassador to the United States and Canada

Jurassic Park in real life

"The Times of London reports that Japanese scientists are planning to use tissue from the legs and testicles of a dead mammoth to clone the extinct creature and display it at an Ice Age wildlife park in Siberia."

Closemouthed at Justice (washingtonpost.com)

The Justice department is refusing to answer the questions put to them by the House Judiciary Committee, who are trying to find out about how the Justice Department has used their new "authorities" under the USA Patriot Act. Questions like how many times they've used roving wiretaps, phone tracing devices, and how often they've checked out the reading habits of US citizens at libraries and bookstores.

Houston cops admit that their parking lot raid was stupid.

They also revised the number of people that they arrested. Not 475, but only 278 people were arrested for doing nothing.

"I was eating ice cream from the Sonic when I was arrested," 19-year-old Emily Demmler said Monday....
"It was like, `Kill them all and let God sort them out,' " said the other supervisor. "I guess we're just lucky he didn't order us to fire warning shots into the crowd or anything."

ISP blocks the RIAA web site...

Information Wave Technologies has announced it will actively deny the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) from accessing the contents of its network. Earlier this year, the RIAA announced its new plan to access computers without owner's consent for the sake of protecting its assets. Information Wave believes this policy puts its customers at risk of unintentional damage, corporate espionage, and invasion of privacy to say the least.

Houston Cops arrest 425 people for doing nothing.

Well, this is an excellent example of the freedoms that we're killing all the Muslims to protect.

A quote:

"We asked police why we were being arrested, and they said, `Everybody is receiving equal treatment from the Houston Police Department tonight.' It didn't matter what you were doing; they arrested you."