Really Under During Surgery? Monitor Can Tell
The first time I heard about the possibility of being conscious during surgery, it kept me up nights for a week. At least there's something you can do about it.
U.S. crude futures reach record high - May. 14, 2004
Sure, right now we're at an absolute high, but when adjusted for inflation, the price of crude is barely more than half what it was in 1980.
Aljazeera.Net - Bloggers doubt Berg execution video
So I guess I'm not the only one who thinks Nick Berg in the video doesn't look like Nick Berg. But again, his family hasn't expressed any doubts.
Does anyone else get mousefinger? My right index finger gets so sore from clicking that I actually mouse left handed at work. I still mouse right handed at home, though.
Does the word 'mousefinger' sound sorta dirty to anyone else, or is it just me? As if anyone's actually reading this...
Grammar Lessons for Pop Stars
Although it's a fault I'm trying to fix, I have to admit that I'm a grammar elitist. (The worst kind, too, because I figure that because I know the rules, I'm allowed to break them.) But as I'm not trying too hard to fix my flaw, I eagerly read this article. Unfortunately (egad! dangling modifier!), the author's writing style was unbearable as she referred to "lyrics that read like a diary entry penned by someone who's just returned home, sweaty and tired, from a seventh-grade dance." Sigh.
Three Arab states condemn American's beheading
Is it just me, or does the guy in the video look nothing like Nick Berg? On the other hand, his own family members haven't expressed any doubt.
Still photographs of Berg's decapitation.
Nothing the US soldiers did in Abu Ghraib prison could be as bad as this.
Aljazeera.Net - US hostage 'escapes' from Iraqi captors
Notice how quotation marks around the word 'escapes' can change the apparent meaning. On the other hand, when the story first broke, I thought to myself, 'Oh, come on. Did he really escape? Or did they decide to let him go?'
