It's as if Ms. Currie and her Kiwi comrades were following a script written by Chris Morris for The Brass Eye.

Wired News -- Moms Battle Genetic Engineering: "Alannah Currie, the group's founder, said she designed the ads to provoke an ethical debate. 'Just because science can, should science? And how far will they go?' said Currie, who is a former member of pop group the Thompson Twins."


- posted by slaughts @ 11:08 AM

 
China Was First... As Usual
Nice to know that even though it's more than forty years (!) late, China was first.

China Sends Man Into Orbit, Entering U.S.-Russian Club: "The Chinese assert that they were actually first to try to send a man into space. A 16th-century Ming Dynasty artisan, Wan Hu, held kites in each hand and strapped himself to a chair equipped with rockets, according to some historical accounts carried in the state news media."

Oh, and a colleague here tells me that Chinese media has reported that "thousands of Western spies" have come to China to spy on this morning's launch. Shocking.
- posted by slaughts @ 3:31 PM

 
Saving Private Lynch
Hilarious. Simply hilarious.

Saving Private Lynch From Misinformation: "In actuality, I was never influenced by anybody in terms of the truth, because the truth, as we knew it, changed every day. For the first three months I was handing in a rewrite every two days. An article would come out and the network and the legal department would have me rewrite it based on the new truth."
- posted by slaughts @ 8:30 AM