Super Doomed Planet

A screenshot from The Iowa City Press-Citizen Online, taken on the evening of 8/28/2007:

In 1914, two months after England and Germany went to war, Geoffrey Pyke persuaded a newspaper to hire him as a war correspondent. Pyke was about 20 at the time and, acting under the same impulse by which modern 20 year olds crash keg parties and drink themselves into comas, snuck into Berlin. He was [...]

Remember the stateroom scene from A Night at the Opera? The same thing happened in London, at 54 Berners Street, in 1810. The Morning Post had the scoop: > The greatest hoax that ever has been heard of in this metropolis was yesterday practised in Berners-street. The house of Mrs Tottenham, a Lady of fortune, [...]

Today, in Ames, Iowa, the Republican presidential candidates showed us just what they stand for. The Des Moines Register was there: >Elaborate inflatable rides and a climbing wall enticed them at the Brownback and Romney camps. >Tommy Thompson’s tent featured a miniature golf course, as well as two flat screen TVs airing a basketball game. [...]

Boing Boing has posted a picture of an Iranian Kool-Aid packet showing an Anglo-Saxonish mother and a Kool-Aid pitcher. Interestingly, the mother appears to be drawing Kool-Aid Man’s face with her own blood.

Sometimes I wonder about people searches. This is, for some people, the entire purpose of the internet. Made a date with someone? Google him. Someone apply for a job? Google her. Have you even, y’know, just *met* somebody? Google. It sure beats trusting people! I wonder how many of these searches are successful. Google searching [...]