Garrick Wales was a family man, married with three lovely children to a Scottish schoolteacher called Pamela.
The strangeness of his life started to emerge when he was walking in Africa several months ago and was bitten by a boomslang snake. Since then he has needed regular blood transfusions. As far as Pamela was concerned, [...]

The Scotsman, a newspaper occasionally prone to lift its kilt above its head and reveal the glories beneath, has a nifty Heroes and Villains column, which is enticingly disrespectful.
“Supporters of our Royal family always claim that they are great ambassadors for the UK. We are told that QE2 and her relatives bring in flocks [...]

Details of an occupation:
Dahr Jamail – “What other “progress” can I report? A journo friend visiting a mutual friend of ours in Baqubah gave me a ring on the cell tonight — so the cellular service now includes Baqubah, which is about 30 miles northeast of Baghdad.
Yet another gas crisis has hit Baghdad. Due to [...]

They Rule “allows you to create maps of the interlocking directories of the top companies in the US in 2004.”
Sliding past the domestic politics and interesting articles about visualisation ideas on the weblog also reveals
Newsmap which visually represents changing news stories. [Interesting though erratic].. it is “a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands [...]

I MISSED IT.
I BLOODY BUGGERY MISSED IT.
MY CREDIBILITY IS GONE. JUST GONE. GEDDIT? GONE.
Heinz has opened a restaurant called “Beanz Meanz Heinz” – “the world’s first restaurant dedicated exclusively to Heinz Baked Beans”.
The address is 19 Fitzroy Street St Kilda, which is diagonally across the road from our place and almost next to the [...]

Manchester Senior Circuit Judge David Maddison must have a jaundiced view of the internet. In just six months it has given him two seriously perverse murder cases.
“Seward, the court was told, used her power over men to hatch the plot to have Brierley, the father of her children, murdered so that she could start a [...]

Camera/Iraq is a project of Carleton College’s Cinema & Media Studies Department and Ratchet Up to gather news sources and commentary about public and personal photographic image practices associated with the War in Iraq. Visitors are invited to send pertinent links or writing”.
The site, a useful reference on the changing use of digital imagery, [...]

What were you doing on September 26th 1983?
Try and pin it down. Find some reference moments – birthday, work, study, the dead end of winter, a new lover, children at school, maybe your first day at kinder, perhaps the year before your father died..
Maybe there are some documents. Homework, tickets to a grand final, [...]

In honour of the approaching ski season,

Since February, startup American online games company Kuma Reality Games has been presenting shoot-em-ups based on real stories about the war in Iraq.
To me, the whole concept is deeply repulsive. War as entertainment, reality as fantasy, conflicted present as indoctrinatory pap. This is propaganda, and the company is mysterious – a private organisation with no [...]