SKIRMISHER

There’s something fascinating about mankind’s impending death, especially when you see it in bullet-time, Matrix fashion. You see a 3,000-year-old ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields (these numbers are fantastic!) snap off Canada, and you can’t help but stare at it for hours. It would also have been great for a Friday or […]

I thought the Japanese are workaholics. This man just proved me wrong.
A senior official at the Kurashiki Municipal Government, who worked only 26 days in about five years, will be dismissed at the end of this year, officials have said.
The 48-year-old public servant, whose name is being withheld, was absent from work for almost the […]

The upside with having to eat what we’ve cloned is that we’ll probably feel weird about it only in the beginning. Another is, maybe if they could produce and clone gazillions of those cows — inexpensively and efficiently — then there would be enough to feed Africa and the rest of the world’s beautiful-but-starving-to-death people.
But […]

Isn’t it nice to have green pigs, especially if they glow in the dark?
Some Chinese scientists led by Liu Zhonghua at the Northeast Agricultural University in Harbin had the same thing in mind, but they didn’t just sit down and laugh about it; they actually bred green flourescent pigs, three of them.
Reports Xinghua: Genetic material […]

Well, what do you know. We’ve done it. People have been bribed, sated to surfeit, pampered to numbness. Not to mention we’ve made heartfelt promises to gods of three major religions that involved hackneyed lines like, “we’ll never do it again” and “it’s not you, it’s me” and “I have never and ever will have […]

My father and maternal grandmother are from the fishing town of Unisan, Quezon. But that doesn’t mean it’s my place of origin. Most Filipinos today say that they’re from this and that province but the truth is, they never grew up there; they just spent summer and Christmas vacations in their folks’ place of origin.
Thus, Friendster is […]

Because of that earthquake, so many of us here in Asia have been left with laughable online connection at best, and none at all in some other God-forsaken parts.
Incidentally, we’re right in the eye of “some other God-forsaken parts.”
In one smooth, divine flourish, state-of-the-art fiber optic cables snapped, maybe inspiring some drunk physicist somewhere to […]

The biting Russian winter and the drab, gray buildings are a great combination to inspire people to sit in a corner, make one last swig at the vodka, and slit their throats. So to clamp on this very inspiring mood, well-meaning Russians made this experiment in urban art, where buildings now remind you of a […]