I’ve blogged about D.B. Cooper before…he’s the fellow who hijacked an airliner, demanded and received $200,000 and a parachute, and then bailed out of the plane somewhere over the Washington/Oregon border. He disappeared without a trace, and his case remains one of the more tantalizing mysteries of recent memory. And today, a piece of the [...]
Get your chequebooks ready, gentlemen (and ladies, too. I don’t want to leave anyone out). If the price is right, you can own a piece of French politics. Sexy, sexy French politics. Yesterday, Christie’s announced it would be auctioning a photo of France’s first lady and former model, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy. You may ask: so what? Well, my truculent friend, [...]
All right, all you crazy BSG fans. Finally, a contest we can all get behind: DESIGN YOUR OWN CYCLON! The SCIFI.COM, DVICE and MAKE magazine are co-sponsoring the competition. In their words: You know the Cylons — that fanatical race of genocidal robots? There are a bunch of different kinds, from toaster-like automatons to [...]
For some reason unknown even to myself, I subscribe to the Statistics Canada RSS feed. This is syndication at its most mind-numbingly boring: recent gems include “Cereals and Oilseeds Review, January 2008″ and “Stocks of Frozen Poultry, March 2008″. But here’s a classic from today: Crushing Statistics, February 2008. Crushing statistics? What, is it data [...]
Interesting piece in the Guardian today by Steve Feltham, a self-described, full-time ‘Nessie Hunter’. He gave up a job, a girlfriend and his house to look for the mythical lake creature. And it’s not a glamorous life, either- he lives in a van with no electricity or running water, and sells little clay models of [...]
I remember discussing the Iraq war, way back in 2004, in a Swiss Chalet (for some reason, a quarter-chicken dinner is a fabulous political lubricant). This was back in the early days of the insurgency, when everyone seemed a bit confused as to why so many Americans were getting blown up. I said something like, [...]
Frequent readers of this site will recall I was pretty excited about the USA shooting down a crippled satellite. But who knew I would only have to wait four weeks for the movie? Coolness. I like the soundtrack especially. Of course, I probably would have cast Val Kilmer as the crippled satellite, but I suppose [...]