Your Thursday Roughage

25 years ago

My John Ashcroft Conspiracy TheoryIn 1992, John Ashcroft's nephew was caught growing 60 cannabis plants. Normally, growing this many plants…

Browsers, as user interfaces, suck

25 years ago

Unfortunately, a lot of programmers I know seem to disagree. "Everyone knows how to use a browser," they say. I…

Lesson of the Day: Stay on message!

25 years ago

That's what P.R. companies tell you to do when being interviewed by the press. That's probably what the writer of…

Hump Day Grab Bag

25 years ago

Thinking of You Or: A Virus Warning There's a new worm, Goner, that's been making the rounds. If you get…

Babbo! Babbo! Babbo!

25 years ago

For my friend George's birthday, I flew down to New York and took him and his wife Leesh out for…

Odd Stuff

25 years ago

"Good old rock. It always wins". A sex parlour in Fukuoka, Japan will give you a major discount -- from…

The Epistles of St. Moz

25 years ago

From 1983 to 1987, there was a band of very nice if somewhat tempermental lads from Manchester known as The…

Onions in the Varnish

25 years ago

It's a clever turn of phrase, really. I first saw it in use here. The chemist-turned-Holocaust-memoir-writer Primo Levi has a…

Happy Birthday, George!

25 years ago

And in honour of your birthday, I present you with this lovely photo of when I last came down to…

Start Spreading the News…

25 years ago

I'm leaving today... ...for New York City for a mini-vacation and to celebrate my friend George's 32nd birthday. I know…