MySpace launches an online revolution. We think. Maybe. May 09, 2008
MPR supposes it gets pretty difficult to talk about cyberspace and unfathomably huge memory spaces without sounding utterly abstract; any "product" beyond "Software as a Service" is nothing actually physical at all and yet somehow becomes increasingly ethereal with each passing upgrade.
How will the (Northern Rockies gray) wolf survive? May 08, 2008
It's been a bad couple of months for the gray wolf in the Northern Rockies area, and now a court battle begins. Though prolific enough in much of the world and hardly considered endangered in most areas, US Fish and Wildlife Service reintroduced gray wolves into the Yellowstone area in...
Why hasn't anyone invited MPR to a skins party? May 06, 2008
How does this MPR guy know he's getting old? He'd never even heard of "skins parties," the wacky new fad among British teenagers. (American teens or elsewhere worldwide, if you read this and you know better, please educate this fuddy-duddy.
Surrender expected from Clinton campaign after devastating caucus loss in all-important Guam May 05, 2008
Well, a caucus result on the weekend should just about wrap it up for the Hillary Clinton for President 2008 campaign. Though stubborn to the extreme, surely Ms. Clinton has no choice but to give up her hopes after losing the non-nation non-state to Barack Obama by seven popular votes...
Winner declared in London mayoral race (by bookie) May 02, 2008
Though the results of voting in London's mayoral election is still hours away as of this writing (approximately 11 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, 6 p.m. British time), one source has claimed it knows the winner already: Paddy Power Plc, Ireland's largest bookmaker.
Campaign 2008: McCain vs. Irony May 01, 2008
It's a heavy dose of irony for the McCain campaign this week as, following a muckraking bit of work by Los Angeles Times entitled "John McCain gets tax-free disability pension," disabled activists protested and were arrested outside his senate office. (McCain was not present at the time - imagine that.)
R.I.P. Dr. Albert Hofmann April 30, 2008
Albert Hofmann, the Switzerland-born chemist who first synthesized lysergic acid (a.k.a. LSD) and thus unwittingly colored an entire subculture and culture at large, died yesterday in his home at the age of 102.
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