March 2004


NEC Japan is manufacturing 4000 of these Linux-based tablet/PDA devices each year. This is nice. I like Linux. So why do I feel like it’s about to beat me up?
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It’s almost a shame that this nice little summary of modern double-speak comes from an America-hating pinko liberal.

Summary: If you say the opposite of the truth often enough the media must treat it as a topic of debate or risk appearing biased, and so formerly obvious facts are called into question.

According to the China Daily, a Taiwanese man has been booted from E-bay for attempting to sell three Vietnamese girls for the bargain-basement price of $5,411 each. All I want to know is - what category was this listed under? “Lifestyles -> Asian Slave Girls”?

What a bizarre planet.

The Kid of Speed has put up an astonishing visual travelogue of her journies through the “Dead Zone” around Chernobyl, still largely uninhabited (and uninhabitable). Go look! Now!

Four-door, sports, and battle-mech.

A big ass frickin' car robot

Sure it doesn’t transform back into a car… yet! But this is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen.

Full site here

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