And for my next fixation: Wolverine

This ought to clear my system of a recent fixation on the tragic anti-hero Prince Nuada…
X-Men Origins: Wolverine! Here’s some shaky-cam footage from Comic-Con 2008.  OMG PONIES! Look fast because it’ll probably disappear from the site soon.

Iraqi official visits U.S. wounded at Walter Reed

Huh!? Yeah, you’d think it might be at least a 3rd or 4th tier news item.  But I discovered this by randomly careening into this post on the Mudville Gazette. In fact, other than the news item referenced in the post, a Google news search showed only one other source in the media, here.
“We have [...]

Did they get Abu Khabab al-Masri this time?

News reports such as this one are for at least the second time announcing his demise:
Abu Khabab al-Masri is described by authorities as the man who ran al Qaeda’s infamous Derunta training camp in Afghanistan, where he used dogs and other animals as subjects for experiments with poison and chemicals. His explosives training manual is [...]

Fish quiz. Kind of ghhhhey.

I’m Your Highness and I’m a Hammerhead Shark.
WWF would like you to play a game (and send them some money).  I’m not all that impressed with this:

Your Highness, based on the results of the quiz, the fish you’re closest to is a Hammerhead Shark!
As an extremely adapted predator, you use your oddly shaped head [...]

Open up! It’s the Religious Department!

I was reading a news story on John McCain meeting with the Dalai Lama, and happened to see this one.  The site was the Malaysia Star.  I am completely mystified that there are countries on our planet that have “religious” departments, which conduct “raids” to look for “immoral activities.”  Wow.  Human beings really are a [...]

Because I can’t resist the word “conspiracy”

I stumbled upon this, and several others here.
Maple Syrup Smell is Really Bio-Weapons Testing
The first time the sweet fragrance wafted through the city in the fall of 2005, penetrating every stank corner, infiltrating every orifice—even overpowering the locker room B.O.—we tried to ignore it. “I thought I was having a stroke, and this was [...]

UK’s security horizon scanning team

The British government apparently doesn’t have a good enough perspective on future threats so it’s forming a new assessment and/or advisory body.
Britain’s Cabinet Office said the unit will examine the potential threats to Britain from terrorism, pandemic disease, food shortages, energy scarcity and natural disasters.
I would assume they’ve been doing that kind of thinking already (?!) [...]

I’m really tired of these arrogant pipsqueaks

It’s a long week already so I don’t plan to have much commentary here for the next few days. But let me just get this off my chest.
I am so frakking tired of going to scientific meetings, conferences, and whatnot, wherein throngs of arrogant B.S.-wielding (that’s the degree, not the expletive) pipsqueaks from a couple [...]