Rocket guidance engineer and sometime science-fiction writer Will McCarthy has figured out the science of how the dead might walk again, and he is not talking about Wade Davis’ type of zombies, who aren’t really dead. [via the null device]
Day: October 21, 2005
Lifes Little Annoyances
In Lifes’s Little Annoyances, Ian Urbina chronicles the lengths to which some people will go when they have endured their pet peeves long enough and are not going to take it any more.”
Dangerous contamination found in water on US planes
Falcon dive-bombing starlings wins top photo prize
Hiding Behind Katrina
Face it, America. You’ve been punk’d
‘Cheney cabal hijacked US foreign policy’
In a scathing attack on the record of President George W. Bush, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Mr Powell until last January, said: “What I saw was a cabal between the vice-president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made.
“Now it is paying the consequences of making those decisions in secret, but far more telling to me is America is paying the consequences.”” (Financial Times)