March 2008
Mad Magazine Fold-Ins, Past and Present →
Al Jaffee’s fold-ins for Mad magazine, from the 1960s to the present, in interactive form.
Brain cancer fears over heavy mobile phone use →
A top Australian neurosurgeon says the world’s heavy reliance on mobile phones could be a greater threat to human health than smoking and even asbestos. Vini Khurana, who conducted a 15-month “critical review” of the link between mobile phones and malignant brain tumours, said using mobiles for more than 10 years could more than double the risk of brain cancer. He has called for...
“To keep our relationship brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you...”
Daylight savings change creates time bug →
The change to the daylight saving schedule seems to have caused some confusion and a few technological hitches. The ABC has received scores of calls from people who say their mobile phones and computers have switched back a week early from daylight savings time. Daylight savings normally ends in New South Wales today, but has been delayed by one week in south-east states in an attempt to harmonise...
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Every South Park Episode Ever Online for Free... →
Paul McCartney and Heather Mills Jokes
It’s a very sad world we live in when Sir Paul McCartney and his wife have divorced and all anyone seems to want to do is make jokes about her false leg. Personally, I think it’s prosthetic. It’s been some time now since Paul McCartney has separated from his wife Heather Mills-McCartney. Mrs Mills-McCartney is said to be distraught over the split. “He has been my...
Recognize Internet addiction as a mental illness,... →
Compulsive e-mailing and text messaging could soon become classified as an official brain illness. An editorial in this month’s issue of the American Journal of Psychiatry says Internet addiction — including “excessive gaming, sexual pre-occupations and e-mail/text messaging” — is a common compulsive-impulsive disorder that should be added to psychiatry’s...
Media Errata « One Shady Lady →
A working girls’ take on the whole Ashley Alexandra Dupre story… Her rate was $1,000 an hour, and she stayed for two and half hours, I believe. Plus, Client 9 put down a deposit of $1,500 for future visits. Do the math. It works out. Agencies in the United States take a fifty percent commission, which is absurd, but never mind that for now. So actually, her rate was $500 an hour. But...
“If you don’t like prostitution, don’t be a prostitute or the customer of one. I...”
– Richard M. Stallman (via jessta) (via marco)
Waxy.org: Internet Power, Volume 1: Flashback to... →
A video of the Internet in era 1995. The Internet Archive’s earliest snapshots were in late 1996, so anything before that is extremely sparse. This videos, silly as it is, still represents valuable documentation of the early web.
