Archive for November, 2007
Greg Beato has an article in Reason about the virtues of The Onion as compared to conventional newspapers.
Excerpt:
Today newspapers are eager to entertain—in their Travel, Food, and Style sections, that is. But even as scope creep has made the average big-city tree killer less portable than a 10-year-old laptop, hard news invariably comes in a single flavor: [...]
Malcolm Gladwell has an article in the New Yorker about criminal profilers – the detectives on TV that take one look at the murder scene and say: “This guy has issues with his mother.” I’d always kind of assumed that they only existed in fiction, but I failed to factor in the United States. The FBI uses them all [...]
Momotaro’s Divine Sea Warriors is s a Fantasia-inspired Japanese propaganda film from World War Two. Wikipedia credits it as the first feature-length anime. It was long believed to have been completely destroyed in the aftermath of the war, but a copy turned up in 1988.
Details on it are sparse, but an IMDB user gives this [...]
Recommended reading: Link.
… is that 15 minutes of a Today Tonight reporter bullying and gloating that the law is on their side it seems more like the kind of thing that The Chaser would play to humiliate Today Tonight, and not the other way round.
There must be plenty of people who think the opposite, so I guess it’s a bit of a Rorschach [...]
Here’s an observation I don’t understand the meaning of.
Three leads from Australia:
The Age: “A popular children’s toy found to contain a chemical that the human body turns into the party drug “fantasy”, or “GHB”, has been banned in three states…”
NEWS.com.au: “An award-winning children’s toy has been recalled because it contains a chemical which turns into a [...]
