April 27th: Today in 1296 Edward I won yet another battle in the long series of battles that lead to his nickname as the Hammer of Scotland. In this battle the smaller English army tempted the Scots into an ill conceived charge and then massacred the Scots after the charge failed. Edward has been rewarded [...]
In this news story Hiroshi Okuda basicly says we own America, but don’t want it to be too obvious because then the Americans might wake up and do something about it. As if.
As we look at moving back to the US this summer I have been thinking about cars and the Hybrids look pretty good. Sales on them are way up, but the selection is pretty limited at the moment as Detroit is still thinking about it mostly. The US car makers seem to be focusing on [...]
Online music buyers frustrated by restrictions and limitations on the music they buy. The best part is when they tell you to burn what you buy to a cd, then rip it back to your pc to get the full use of the music you already paid for. Of course we are frustrated.
Ants forming cunning traps out of the plant they live on. I suspect PETA should get involved in reforming these ants as this doesn’t sound very friendly to the insects that get trapped.
April 24th: April 24th 1925 is the day John Scopes was alleged in an indictment to have taught evolution in a biology class. In actuality he had done nothing of the sort, but was quite happy to be the guinea pig in a case against a terrible law. The case was a media circus, much [...]