U.S. actions in Central Asia spell ‘blowback’ Many of the ingredients necessary for Islamic radicalism exist in Central Asia — especially U.S. support for repressive regimes. Kazakhstan, a former Soviet Republic in Central Asia and the world’s ninth-largest country, is…

Yahoo shatters world yodelling record! Bavarians plot retaliation.

The return of Opus!!!! On November 23rd <that’s tomorrow!>, after an absence of almost ten years, Opus returns to the nation’s Sunday comic pages. We can’t, at this time, go into detail as to what he’s been doing during his…

New business plan: Destroy the inventory. Enrage potential customers Vivendi burning MP3.com library to the ground. Vivendi has announced that it’s flushing all the music it hosts at MP3.com down the toilet: …they’re not selling the archive, containing more than…

I feel your pain, brother Man gets “spam rage” over penis ad A Silicon Valley computer programmer has been arrested for threatening to torture and kill employees of the company he blames for bombarding his computer with Web ads promising…

Name that city! Ankara? Kabul?? Baghdad??? (click to find out)

SF mayor race: Newson campaign compares Green opponent to Jim Jones The Gavin Newsom campaign is getting desperate. Y’see, he’s the hand-picked candidate of Willie Brown, the termed-out Mayor of San Francisco, and as such, should be coasting to victory.…

California requires electronic voting machines to make receipts In a major victory for voting rights advocates, Secretary of State Kevin Shelley announced Friday that all electronic voting machines in California must provide paper receipts by 2006. Shelley also introduced stricter…