Month: October 2004

  • Quadriplegic Man Sends Email with Mind

    The BrainGate allowed the patient to control a computer or television using his mind, even when doing other things at the same time. Researchers report for example that he could control his television while talking and moving his head.

  • Scariest Halloween Costumes of 2004

    Almost as bad as the tyke dressed up as Nancy Regan. 2004’s Scariest Halloween Costumes

  • Pre-Election Round-Up (T-2d)

    Three days left. As Samuel Jackson says in Jurassic Park: Hold on to your butts! Making Votes Count: Is a Theft of the 2004 Election Already Underway?: From U.S. soldiers being told to use non-secret ballots to the Pentagon counting the votes of the military and U.S. citizens living abroad. From partisan secretaries of state […]

  • Cover Up and Concealer

    I noticed a really odd behavior with the cat. When I am cleaning out his litter box he is always pawing at the bag or newspaper that I’m using to discard of his kittenables. I thought it was hysterical that he’s pawing at it as if to say: Hey that’s mine – give me that […]

  • Grudge, The

    I hope someday someone makes a film with Grace Zabriskie and Veronica Cartwright. And they take turns going totally apeshit crazy. I’ve written it before – no one goes nuts like these two actresses (and throw in Bill Paxton for balance). Grace you’ll remember as Laura Palmer’s mother and her primal scream of grief through […]

  • At the Cafe. Hey.

    The title line is of course a nod to ‘At the Ballet’ from A Chorus Line (the best song in the show methinks). I always think that show gets so boring towards the end. It’s like listening to a bunch of manufacturing workers complain that their jobs are going overseas but not investigating the legislation […]

  • American Stalinist

    Matthew, a history prof writes: As a student of the origins of Stalinist culture and propaganda, I have become more and more aware of the Stalinist tactics and mentality of much of the American Right since the virulent Clinton-hating publicity campaigns of the 1990s. Relentless insistence on unity, on the existence of an unprecedented and […]

  • Drawn Together

    Anybody else catch Drawn Together last night? I think it’s got great possibility and was pretty darned funny. The season teaser they played off the first episode looked great.

  • Gymbunnies Reloaded

    I’m a little high-strung lately – like everyone else in the country. Between the World Series (which I don’t give a crap about – how can they call lit the World Series when only U.S. teams play?) and the upcoming recount. Ron and I have started an intensive weight-training program that he designed. We did […]

  • Hobbits Discovered in Indonesia

    Holy shit: Scientists have discovered a new and tiny species of human that lived in Indonesia at the same time our own ancestors were colonising the world. The three-foot (one-metre) tall species – dubbed “the Hobbit” – lived on Flores island until at least 12,000 years ago. Even more intriguing is the fact that Flores’ […]