Month: April 2004

Check out EGO for an interview with Body in Mind founder Dwayne Bell. Dwayne is the creator of the Bell Scale for measuring female beauty. I liked his article (not to mention the photos!) enough to post an add on my site. Bell also runs SuperBeauty.org, “a group of independent websites united in a modern…

WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Transportation today announced it has issued the world’s first license for a sub-orbital manned rocket flight. The license was issued April 1 by the Federal Aviation Administration’s Office of Commercial Space Transportation to Scaled Composites of Mojave, Calif., headed by aviation record-holder Burt Rutan, for a sequence of…

I saw the first episode of the Firefly DVD series today, and it is absolutely fantastic. A brilliant combination of sci-fi and western, the series was produced by Joss Whedon, the creator the Buffy and Angel series, which I have also grown to like. Unfortunately, Fox canceled the series before the end of the season,…

I’ve decided to replace my server-side Java chat with a PHP/Java applet interface to connect to the #AynRand IRC channel. Actually, it will allow you connect to any IRC server you want.

CAIRO, Egypt — Hanan Nsour, a veiled, 21-year-old Muslim in Jordan, came out of “The Passion of the Christ” in tears and pronounced her verdict: Mel Gibson’s crucifixion epic “unmasked the Jews’ lies and I hope that everybody, everywhere, turns against the Jews.” The Quran, though, says Jesus’s crucifixion never happened. Such are the contradictions…

In a victory for intellectual freedom, Tatiana Menaker’s expulsion from San Francisco State University has been reversed. She was expelled from school after protesting the same Marxist and Anti-Semitic attitude she escaped the USSR from in 1986. You can read her editorial about the anti-Americanism she encountered in academia, and an account of her story…

Wow: RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil — Rabies spread by vampire bats has claimed 13 lives on an Amazon river island, local media reported Saturday. The deaths occurred over the past 21 days on Portel Island, according to the O Liberal newspaper. The island is about 1,500 miles northeast of Rio de Janeiro.