Alexander Williams

Like my Grandpa always said, there were no naked human pyramids in Starcraft. There were no whiny anti-war Hollywood types or questionable war motives or granola-munching protesters. I'm starting to think that even World in Conflict, a real time strategy more...

“I’m the Mekuri Master, the Skirt-Flip King. The name isn’t their idea… It’s mine. I’m a man who was born to lift skirts. You think any so-called “rules” are gonna stop me? When classes get out, I race through the more...

ScienceDaily (Mar. 17, 2008) — Far from being a model of social co-operation, the ant world is riddled with cheating and corruption -- and it goes all the way to the top, according to scientists from the Universities of Leeds more...

LONDON (Reuters) - Children playing on a Scottish beach discovered a woman's severed head in a plastic bag, police said on Tuesday.

A ten year old can do it!

The classic beginner's mistake in Argentina is to neglect the first steak of the day. You will be tempted to just peck at it or even skip it altogether, rationalizing that you need to save yourself for the much larger more...

The Babalu Blog (now on the blogroll) has the full text of his resignation in Granma. The key line: "And I reiterated in that letter that …I never forget that ‘all of the world’s glory fits in a kernel of more...

A former Perth chef accused of murdering a young British model spoke in a London court of his regret at having sex with her dead body.

If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand, that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of a new laser beam made in a University of more...

A dynamic database of descriptions of places. Unvetted, uncensored, rather intriguing from the point of view of the ethnoclassifier.