Posts by D. H. McKee

More Propaganda

Been playing with PhotoShop again. Trying to take some vacation photos and turn them into those Art-Deco propaganda posters, like...

Flat-screen TV emits international distress signal

An Oregon man discovered earlier this month that his year-old Toshiba Corporation flat-screen TV was emitting an international distress signal...

Earth warps space surrounding it

Earth’s spin warps space around the planet, according to a new study that confirms a key prediction of Einstein’s general...

Photo ID now required to buy, rent games in Canada

You already need your photo ID to buy booze or cigarettes and now you’ll need it to rent or buy...

The empires strike back

BACK WHEN the Internet was young — oh, say, eight years ago — there was a school of thought that...

Internet about to collapse, says Finnish scientist

In today’s edition of “they sky is falling,” we pick up on the woeful predictions of one Dr. Hannu Kari,...

The Pill can lower ‘libido and drive’

COMING off the Pill can boost women’s sex drive, researchers claimed yesterday. Taking the hormonal contraceptive causes a loss in...

Hackers attack Cal database

State and federal authorities are investigating a hacker attack at University of California, Berkeley, after someone broke into a computer...

World Living Beyond Its Environmental Means

The world is consuming some 20 percent more natural resources a year than the planet can produce, conservationist group WWF...

Total turn-off for tiresome TVs

Like x-ray specs, the invisibility suit or the ever-lasting doughnut, it sounds too good to be true. But a US...