Posts by D. H. McKee

Another Lying Faith Healer

From a NYTimes article. Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Another Lying Faith Healer In her deposition, Ms. Bishop said Mr....

Saddam should have been studied, not executed

Kill Hitler? You would have to be mad to do so. Yet that is undoubtedly what we would have done...

Churn Rates in Second Life

Someone who tries a social service once and bails isn’t really a user any more than someone who gets a...

Internet Gambling and the MMORPG

There is an issue on the horizon of internet gambling that stands to redefine the definition of internet gambling in...

The legal rights to your ‘Second Life’ avatar

Last month, Anshe Chung Studios demanded that YouTube delete the recording, citing the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, which generally requires...

John Gilmore loses ID case

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected a challenge to federal airport regulations requiring passengers to show identification before they board...

Dead Rock Stars Club

I’m reminded of a Stephen King short story… The Dead Rock Stars Club Welcome to the club rock stars are...

Scorpions on a plane!!

Airport security officials scoured a Toronto-bound plane on Sunday after a scorpion got loose onboard and stung a man. The...

20 Ways the World Could End

12 Particle accelerator mishap Theodore Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, raved that a particle accelerator experiment could set off...

Arrests over Saddam hanging video

The Associated Press quoted an unidentified adviser to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki as saying the man arrested was â..an official...