Here’s a direct quote from an Iranian dissident website:
“The Iranian journalist and dissident, Akbar Ganji, is nearing death after thirty-four days of the latest phase of a hunger strike. Photographs taken after thirty days have at last awakened the world’s conscience to his plight; today, 18 July, he has been rushed to hospital from [...]

A Senate enquiry is tickling the toes of various federal officials to find out what actually happened when former Chinese political consul Chen Yonglin applied for asylum.
They must feel like complete idiots as they pass resignedly into our great parliamentary bunker, knowing that their explanations are just pathetic. Perhaps that is a kind word to [...]

“The results of an innovative project to radically re-think the future of hearing, Hearwear displays designs and prototypes by some of the UK’s best designers, including Ross Lovegrove, Priestman Goode, Industrial Facility and IDEO. The display will show how fashionably designed ‘hearwear’ can be as desirable and accessible as ‘eyewear’, and will change the way [...]

This is the same place, according to Google maps, on the left, and MSN virtual earth on the right. They are competitors, and we could conclude that the Microsoft version is using an older, crappier satellite photo.
This may be true, but The Register suggests another explanation, which depends on the place. It is Apple [...]

There is a war on, an actual happening terror-filled slaughterhouse going on right now in Iraq.
The relationship between the war and the rest of us has become increasingly strange. First, it was on television as a kiddyklean digital wargame, the darkness lit in iridiscent green, as reporters crouched in Humvees with the grunts.
Then we [...]

Now that investigator Mick Palmer has swooped on the compactuses of the Department of Lots of Ways of Scaring People and gone through all the files, we are discovering the details of the coverup.
Three days after Vivian Alvarez Solon was deported, the file was opened twice. On the second time, the official waived the [...]

The stories about the CIA’s experiments with LSD, mind alteration and interrogation sound completely crazy. Kidnapped off the street? Mickey finned in bars by strange men who induce psychosis and then release you to a disbelieving world?
Unfortunately, there is an extensive literature on this, and plenty of evidence.
As a 1977 Senate Committee said: [...]

London Police Commissioner Ian Blair ‘at a press conference after the shooting’ of an innocent man at Stockwell Station. It may be a coincidence, but the giant photo behind him shows a very guilty man running from his botched suicide bomb attack.
The Observer seems to have the best account so far of the last [...]

C|NET has collected a “top ten Web fads” list that provides a pretty fair group of markers to separate out the last ten years crouched over keyboards.
They do seem to be slowing down. Maybe I am just preoccupied with one particular part of the internet, but I don’t see the Jedi Knight video, or [...]

Here is a bad photograph of a key moment in the Melbourne ethos – the opening of MIFF party in the basement of the Regent, which is actually the ground floor of a brutalised and very beautiful cinema.
With nineteen days of fuddling shifts from Estonian angst to komedies about Kurdish klutzes, and a demanding [...]