Good old fashioned government cock-up. The U.S. Federal emergence agency displays taste in the face of disaster…

What If… Craig’s alternative life chart. Sweet.

The Dead Grandmother/Exam Syndrome and the Potential Downfall Of American Society.: “Students must never let any of their relatives know that they are at university. (Initial field tests show that keeping just the grandmother ignorant is neither feasible nor safe for the rest of the family.) It is not enough merely to lie about exams;…

Mind Control – Bewu?tseinskontrolle: “I must confess that ‘they’ let in my subconscious fragments of music, simple words,’they’ lead me to sound-hearing illusions, which have sometimes ‘magic-demoniac’ basis thanks to image manipulation on the field of vision. I think that I have become a guinea pig for illegal experiments of mindcontrol. I assume that I…

Salon.com Life | Clothes make the mullah: “In the middle-class salons of Tehran these days, one of the lighter topics of conversation is President Khatami’s wardrobe. He is seen as very elegant, and in fact as a bit of a dandy.” And you thought the British press was bitchy about fashion…