Really fascinating argument from a politics professor who has studied suicide attacks worldwide and analysed their patterns, compiling data from everywhere in the world for the past 25 years ( Read more... )

I confess to a certain glee at this total capitulation.

"The Bush administration is abandoning the phrase "war on terror" to better express the fight against al-Qaeda and other groups as an ideological struggle as much as a military mission."

"One White House official told the BBC the move did not mark a change of approach , but was intended to ( Read more... )

Many governments passed laws granting emergency powers to combat terrorism. Their scope for abuse - or simply tragic error, as in England yesterday when plainclothes police shot dead a Brazilian man unrelated to any terrorism inquiry - has been subject of considerable warnings and concern by rights organisations and the politically savvy. ( ( Read more... )

Setting devices intended to kill and maim other people seems a self-evidently messed up thing to do ( Read more... )

If you ever wanted to eat human flesh, but were afraid to hunt and kill your own, check out hufu.

In other food news, rats fed GM corn developed abnormalities in their internal organs and blood compared to control rats. If it does this to rats, what will it do to humans ( Read more... )

New York Times ( Read more... )

Idle Faction will be releasing their debut EP on Friday 13th May at Valve ( Read more... )

Sometime in 1998 I stopped trimming my goattee. It wasn't a terribly conscious decision. A few years later I had a foot long dual pronged red thing flapping around in the breeze. One day as I was walking through Wakefield market, a really enthusiastic Jamiacan (or something) woman stepped out from a stall and gave me a spiel about this hair thingy ( Read more... )

Band the other day went really well; the first time we'd jammed as a unit for ages. We wrote a song from scratch and basically finished it, as well as finally laying a certain Duck to rest; so two new songs when next we play ( Read more... )

Right. Braindump. On caffeine and sugar. I don't do caffeine or sugar ( Read more... )