Posts by D. H. McKee

Bollywood actor Amrish Puri dies

Amrish Puri, the veteran Bollywood actor best known to western audiences for his role as the villainous cult leader in...

More mad cow disease in Alberta

There is another confirmed case of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy in Alberta. But there is a key difference in the latest...

Psychic Predictions 2004

Osama bin Laden will die of kidney disease. Saddam Hussein will be shot to death. Fidel Castro will die. A...

Iraq WMD search ended

The search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq ended last month, but the analysis of documents seized in the...

Ethics for the Robot Age

Most people’s expectations of robots are driven by fantasy. These marvelous machines, optimists hope, will follow Moore’s law, doubling in...

Real World Doesn’t Use a Joystick

After a recent three-day binge of playing the Japanese cult hit video game Katamari Damacy, Los Angeles artist Kozy Kitchens...

Feds Can X-Rated Spam

The Federal Trade Commission said Tuesday it won a court order to shut down illegal advertising for six companies accused...

1842 (or something)

Sitting in 1842 tonight, for lack of a better idea. Actually, I had several good ideas tonight, but didn’t really...

Two Elections: Why Iraq’s vote is not like Palestine’s

Might there be any point in comparing and contrasting yesterday’s Palestinian election with the upcoming Iraqi one? Yes, indeed there...

IE Plagued by ‘Extremely Critical’ Flaws

Secunia recommends users drop IE and use an alternative browser. “Although hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on...