Posts tagged “news”
News outlets are falling over themselves to publish the most presidential-looking Obama photos they can find.
Oil hit $100 a barrel, and the BBC reported it right on cue. For Americans and Brits, that's terrifying. For Trinidad? We're celebrating.
The BBC seems to be reporting oil price milestones at every round number — though $94 appears to have been quietly skipped.
Burma's crackdown on protesters has turned deadly serious. I initially posted about, uh, the photogenic monks involved, but now that people are actually getting hurt, I feel a bit shallow. Sorry, Burma.
I jinxed it. James Brown, Gerald Ford, and Saddam Hussein all died while I was away, plus Saddam's execution was a rushed mess. And it's only 11am on New Year's Eve.
BBC answers Bob's bird question: don't touch dead birds, and only call the Defra helpline under specific circumstances. Turns out Bob did the right thing with his single dead bird. The advice has some ambiguity, but it's good enough for non-grammar nerds.
Cheney shot a guy and tried to cover it up, and it's barely news here. In the UK this would end a career instantly. The United States is fucking crazy.
The BBC's photo editors couldn't resist choosing the most villainous possible shot of Abu Hamza for his trial coverage. The man already has one eye and hooks for hands. How much more sinister do you need to make him look?
A whale swam up the Thames. That was pretty cool. Then it died.
Not good. Sharon has had a major stroke. This is really bad news.
CNN's picture editors are at it again, illustrating a story about exploding fireworks factories with a guy who looks exactly like Wile E. Coyote after a very bad day near a petrol depot.
Good news coming Monday. Ask me if you're curious!
I can't stop following the tsunami disaster. Donate now, then donate again. The network is doing what it can: the Tsunami Help Blog, Flickr's missing persons gallery, WikiNews tracking victims, and NPR's link collection are all pulling together.
Five hunters killed each other in a gun battle over a deer stand, with zero deer harmed. Would've been perfect if the deer had eaten the bodies, but they're vegetarian. Damn hippies.
Got 2000 hits in 24 hours after Google indexed me. Meanwhile, the story I've been covering keeps shifting -- alibis emerging, witness accounts contradicting the girl's version, and she apparently had breakfast with them after. Not speculating further; I'm already in enough trouble.
Caught up on a backlog of posts over at Gay Geeks, including a followup to the Tom McLaughlin case. Justice was done, though it's a shame that's the exception rather than the rule.
Reflecting on the Columbia disaster through newly released transcripts. It was tragic, but we must press on with space exploration.
Long-overdue link dump covering everything from RAF rain experiments and Bonzi Buddy lawsuits to vaginal airbags and Leonard Nimoy singing about Bilbo Baggins. Relevance may have expired but the weird is eternal. More to come.
The space shuttle Columbia broke up on reentry. Are we witnessing the end of the shuttle era?
Britain's response to a bus hitting a tree? Cut down the trees, naturally. Also, someone is exploring quantum mechanics through the medium of sheep.
Two things: Sharon's already talking about attacking Iran before Iraq's even started, which seems premature. Also, Pamela Anderson has a new video you need to see.
We've discovered a new planet called Quaoar, which is either the coolest name ever or proof that Pluto isn't really a planet. Either way, astronomy will figure it out eventually.
I rediscovered a press release about the band Anthrax dealing with post-9/11 fallout from their name, plus CNN's absurdly overdone anniversary programming schedule. Also, a pretty brutal comic.
Two links worth your time: an alarm clock that can literally kill you, and a chance to take out Barney and the Teletubbies in surprisingly slick flash animation.
Just when I was starting to forget.
The US military has apparently been flying massive, silent, delta-shaped aircraft capable of reaching orbit since the 1980s. UFOs explained? Maybe. Also, that CNN Money columnist is an idiot.
George Harrison's death is sad, but front page news? With a war on? News outlets have forgotten their responsibility: instead of reporting what matters, they manufacture importance, and readers let them. That's dangerous.
Read the Onion for summer survival tips like "put out fires in your home." Also keeping an eye on a newly discovered solar system that looks a lot like ours.
IndyMedia looks promising for non-corporate news. Also, here's how to build a budget atomic bomb capable of leveling a major city. Keeping up my anarchist streak lately.
