Thursday, February 7th, 2008
More undersea internet cable cuts!

The total number of internet cables feeding India and the Middle East cut is now up to 5. I guess we’d hear more about it, but we can’t, you know cuz their internet is broken.I was originally thinking this was someones way of reducing the economic appeal of outsourcing to India, but the focus of […]

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
One Click Democracy By Phone

The site CommitteeCaller.com was blogged recently at Boing Boing: CommitteeCaller: phone an entire Congressional committee with one click. I’m already making notes to check out the open source PBX system, Asterix PBX mentioned in the post. Beyond my general hacker’s interest in the technology, the application is very interesting. How long will something like this […]

Thursday, December 13th, 2007
Homeless Hockey Fans

Tickets to Nashville Predator games must cost a lot less than they do for Maple Leafs games. Apparently a $400,000 throw off from a legal settlement will get you 20,000 tickets ($20 a pop). Who the hell gives away free hockey tickets as part of a legal settlement that has absolutely nothing to do with […]

Monday, November 26th, 2007
USA, USA, USA! Shopping

If there’s one thing the US does better than anyone it’s shopping (and being fat, ). Black Friday was a big hit this year, and now it looks like there’s some sort of online shopping equivalent today. So if you want a flying alarm clock or a Saint Joseph figurine (Patron Saint of Real Estate, […]

Friday, November 16th, 2007
Feds try to shut down Liberty Dollar

So apparently someone in the USA is printing their own negotiable currency backed by gold and silver reserves. Just like in the old days when bread was a nickel and I wore an onion on my belt, because that was the style at the time.Even though there used to be hundreds, if not thousands of […]

Friday, November 16th, 2007
Mexican Space Agency? U suck Estados Unidos.

Seriously… Mexico is considering a space agency. The matter has to go to the Mexican Senate first but what the hell, that’s fantastic! Viva Mexico!The Mexican Space Agency would also work with Mexican firms to bolster the country’s competence in a host of areas, from meteorology, telecommunications, disaster prevention, and remote sensing to space robotics […]

Thursday, September 27th, 2007
Border Infiltrators!

Those wacky Americans are coming across our borders just to try to sneak back into their own country.According to the titans of journalism at CNN it’s very easy to sneak across the longest undefended border in the world. Apparently there are 6.3 Estados Unidos border gaurds/mile along the Mexican frontier (so how the hell do […]