Month December 2006

Death knell for Ford

Ford US cars to get bluetooth, Microsoft operating system I’m guessing the Thai politician who was trapped inside in his car because its Windows-based operating system failed will not be looking to buy a Ford. Gives “Found On Road Dead”…

Orwellian wormholes

The always amazing Subtopia has a long, fascinating post about the labyrinth of tunnels between the US and Mexico at the border, used by those who cross over to the States as well as by the tunnel police who are…

Global warming and political structures

Huge ice shelf breaks loose in Arctic A 41-square-mile shelf of floating ice that jutted into the Arctic Ocean for 3,000 years from Canada’s northernmost shore broke away abruptly in the summer of 2005, apparently freed by sharply warming temperatures…