Rough Ol' Boy

Naturally the Japanese were the first to build an android: Japanese scientists have unveiled the most human-looking robot yet devised – a “female” android called Repliee Q1. She has flexible silicone for skin rather than hard plastic, and a number of sensors and motors to allow her to turn and react in a human-like manner. [...]

In 2002, Osama bin Laden attempted to buy a shitload of yay from Colombia, poison it, and then sell it to Americans. Fortunately, the Colombian drug lords realized that this could easily destroy the market for their wares, so they refused the offer, potentially saving thousands of innocent American lives. However, it also foiled bin [...]

Yesterday, the U.S. military released a statement regarding a car bombing in Baghdad that day; it contained the following quote from an unindentified Iraqi: “The terrorists are attacking the infrastructure, the ISF and all of Iraq. They are enemies of humanity without religion or any sort of ethics. They have attacked my community today and [...]

Well, the feds have shut down a 360 foot tunnel between Washington and British Columbia used to smuggle weed into the country. We are all poorer for it.

Excellent article by Neva Chonin in the San Francisco Chronicle contrasting the responses of America and England to their respective terror attacks. Some choice excerpts: ….it’s been educational, in a horrible sort of way, to watch the United States’ response to this attack on its closest ally. See! The American media’s frustration over the Brits’ [...]

Just so you know, tonight on prime time network television this smirking asshole: will announce his nominee to replace this elderly, Supreme Court hobgoblin: I reccomend watching baseball.

According to an article in the Times, New York state’s Medicaid has become the most expensive in the country at a cost of $44.5 billion annually. That’s a shitload of money regardless of it is well spent or not, but apparently around 10 percent of the claims are outright fraud and an additional 20 to [...]

Want more proof that the war in Iraq is actually making terrorism more of a threat? Well, here it is. However, interrogations of nearly 300 Saudis captured while trying to sneak into Iraq and case studies of more than three dozen others who blew themselves up in suicide attacks show that most were heeding the [...]

Remember Eric Rudolph? If not, he’s the guy who bombed the ‘96 Olympics, a few abortion clinics, and a gay bar. Just goes to show, not all terrorists are Muslim fundamentalists from the Middle East; we are quite capable of growing the Christian variety here at home.

For any readers who don’t know, Dubai is one of the primary emirates, along with Abu Dhabi, that make up the United Arab Emirates, and it is apparently turning into Fantasy Island, but larger and cooler. First off, the ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, is building artificial islands that replicate the Earth. [...]