Over at G+ I’ve been collecting photographs of all the president’s facepalms. Yesterday’s discovery of a suitable candidate for Woodrow Wilson wrapped up all of the 20th and 21st Century presidents. G+ doesn’t include robust text formatting or link listing tools, so here’s the roster, with links back to the relevant G+ post: 20th...
PARIS (AFP) – “A British-built robot generates its own power by gobbling flies, but it has a stinky downside — it needs human sewage as bait to catch the insects and then digest them.” Next up? An plan “to make the droid predatory, using the sewage as bait to catch the flies.” In the...
Kellogg, Brown & Root, the Halliburton subsidiary with all the Iraq contracts, is hiring. “Security Technicians” appear to be in high demand, but so are HR generalists, carpenters, plumbers, planners, schedulers, truck drivers, IT techs, and engineers of various sorts. Follow the link, click ‘Search Jobs’, and select Iraq under location. Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and...
URGENT AND CONFIDENTIAL!!! Sirs: I am Achmed Falafel, for years until recent events curator at the National Museum of Iraq. I and associates are in the possession of Ancient Goods of Civilization Antiquity and having no safe way to transport these possessions to safety desire a safe front their expeditious transportation to the protection...
From the NY Times. NAJAF, Iraq, April 2 ? In the giddy spirit of the day, nothing could quite top the wish list bellowed out by one man in the throng of people greeting American troops from the 101st Airborne Division who marched into town today. What, the man was asked, did he hope...