Posts by D. H. McKee

Space food of the future

The pioneers who make the 80-million-mile, three-year journey to Mars and back will probably not have the just-add-water-and-heat packaged foods...

Testing the MTGoogleMaps plugin

Well, I couldn’t really get this to work. Oh, it worked fine if all the circumstances were right, but for...

Urban Legend: Eating turkey makes people especially drowsy.

False. Turkey does contain tryptophan, an amino acid which is a natural sedative. But tryptophan doesn’t act on the brain...

Britain gags report that Bush targeted Arab TV

The British government has responded sharply to the alleged leak of a government memo that said U.S. President George W....

Pictures from the new office

Last night I was running around the office with my camera, snapping up pictures of the new place. Here’s a...

Freezing in the dark depths of the cosmic bowl

Chilling at 1842 this morning. Literally chilling — it’s -10 outside, and there are whiteout conditions on King St. I...

Movie studios, BitTorrent sign anti-piracy pact

Hollywood’s major movie studios and Internet technology provider BitTorrent Inc. have signed a pact to help stem piracy of films...

Sony Rules!

Hey, way to go Sony! Not only did you implement a faulty and easily circumvented anti-piracy mechanism on CDs with...

Blogging at Tim’s

I’m at the Tim Hortons at Davenport and Northfield. I’ve got a Maple Dip and a medium black coffee. Reading...

The Sex Machines Next Door

[A] divorced Christian homesteader from Idaho is one of many makers of garage-built erotic devices featured in Sex Machines: Photographs...