Holy crap: Andrea Suastegui had been suffering flulike symptoms Saturday when she and her husband drove to the FruterÃa El Palsa Market on 25th Street near Broadway and purchased prescription medicine without a prescription… After the drug was administered with a syringe, the woman almost immediately went into medical distress. Police and paramedics were called …
Category Archives: External & links
Fraud
If you have used your debit card at OfficeMax, you might want to check on your bank statement. NJ police have arrested 14 people in connection with stolen data & fake debit cards. The crime spree forced banks across the nation to replace hundreds of thousands of debit cards. It also stranded Americans in other …
New Qinghai-Tibet railway
Following the meme of my previous post, we can probably add another spot to the ‘dramatically changed by tourism’ list. New Qinghai-Tibet railway: “Traveling overland through snow-capped mountains and high-land meadows to visit mysterious Tibetan Buddhist shrines on the world’s highest plateau will soon no longer require the grit and resolve of an adventurous backpacker. …
Does irony translate?
This whole cartoon thing is rediculous. Michael Standaert has the right idea: Why does the Danish Prime Minister even need to be involved in this situation or apologize for this? What I don’t understand is the fact that GOVERNMENTS have been drawn into this mess. They are not responsible for the actions of writers and …
Packet caste system
Last year there was some debate over the possibility of two-tier internet, as a number of different ISPs wanted to charge sites for performance. This was more than a foolish money grab. It was the first shot in an attack on the very neutrality that has made the internet so successful. Fast forward to today. …