Urban Legend: Image shows Bush as one of the worst disasters to hit the U.S.

True. (hee hee) Captions accompanying television news broadcasts have to convey information about often complex topics in relatively few words, a situation which can sometimes produce inadvertently humorous ambiguity. [bush_worst_disaster.jpg]

Urban Legend: Willy Gilligan?

Nearly everyone who has ever watched television is the western world is at least passingly familiar with Gilligan’s Island. The...

Urban Legend: “The Price Is Right” offered contestants a trip to New Orleans

True… Whenever disaster strikes a large, long-established city, inevitably one will find earlier references to that city in popular culture...

SpamRock 2005

Sent out the SpamRock invites tonight. Thought I’d better get a move on, since I’m cutting it a little close...

‘Racist’ police blocked bridge and forced evacuees back at gunpoint

A Louisiana police chief has admitted that he ordered his officers to block a bridge over the Mississippi river and...

Cover-up: toxic waters ‘will make New Orleans unsafe for a decade’

Toxic chemicals in the New Orleans flood waters will make the city unsafe for full human habitation for a decade,...

A Nice Place to Film, but Heavens, Not to Live

The essential American soul,” D. H. Lawrence once wrote, “is hard, isolate, stoic and a killer. It has never yet...

Samsung Delivers 16 GB NAND Flash

Samsung yesterday announced three new technologies targeted at the expanding, multi-faceted mobile application industry. At a press conference held in...

Scientists Observe Most Distant Cosmic Explosion Ever Recorded

Astronomers have detected the most distant explosion ever witnessed in the heavens. It was a flash so powerful that they...

Pentagon Revises Nuclear Strike Plan

The Pentagon has drafted a revised doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons that envisions commanders requesting presidential approval to...