Rather than wade into the technical details about the financial sector through a blog post by a non-financial expert, you can now be fully informed about the ways banks are screwing you over via the Pulitzer Prize winning ProPublica series: The Wall Street Money Machine. Bonus content: Comic panel explaining the bizarre world of CDOs …
I have seen quite a large number of assertions pulled out from the nether regions of the human body that the reason there are GLBTs is because it is nature’s way of controlling the population, or it is a choice of lifestyle, or it is god’s way of controlling the population. The stupid, it burns …
SMBC has found another way to perfectly describe my feelings regarding the fungal outgrowth infesting my jaw. Thankfully, I am not emotionally burdened with a mate (yet). Indeed, the number one reason excuse I use for not shaving is the rate of growth that necessitates daily trimming — a risk to my skin I rather fail …
of the apocalypse. The following article was originally written for Unscientific Malaysia, and is archived here in its author-preferred form. — Haji Abdul Subky Latif is a writer to ignore When I was directed to the article “Tsunami tanda dekatnya kiamat”, I had an inkling that I would be reviewing a stupid article about how …
James Burke’s documentary, Connections, was released back in the pre-Internet age of 1978, which makes it practically ancient in Intertube years. It is also incredibly well-produced, rivalling modern documentaries which have better budgets and CGI effects. Much of it may be due to the compelling writing and the sardonic humour lightly sprinkled throughout Connections. You may …
Taib Mahmud, Chief Mugwump of Sarawak, and a member of the sub-committee of dwarf dictators of Not Even Trying to Lie United, recently issued a challenge for independent fact-checkers: “I know that there are exaggerated claims that 90% of Sarawak’s forests have been destroyed by logging,” the chief minister said in an interview here in …
I will be curtailing my time blogging once more as my thesis deadline looms like a Vorlon warship over a Starfury. Meanwhile, rumours of Japan’s demise by radiation are much overstated as the following XKCD comic shows. Supplementary article from Jake Adelstein explains why you should not worry too much about the nuclear power plants in Japan. …
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