Respectful Insolence
Archives for February 28, 2006
What would happen if Microsoft redesigned the iPod box?
Posted by Orac on February 28, 2006 Although the images used are a bit out of date (for one thing, that looks like a first generation iPod on the box), this video is spot on hilarious. Pray this never happens…
Grand Rounds, Vol. 2, No. 23
Posted by Orac on February 28, 2006 Grand Rounds, Vol. 2, No. 23 has been posted at the blog of a fellow surgeon, the pseudonymous Dr. Bard-Parker (the significance of which you would know if you were a surgeon or worked in an O.R.) at A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure. My favorite piece? This one by UroStream about…
Senator Frank Lautenberg: Xenophobe or pandering to xenophobes?
Posted by Orac on February 28, 2006 While driving into work this morning, I was a bit disturbed to hear a news report about a speech New Jersey Senator Frank Lautenberg gave yesterday to a group of dockworkers in Newark who were protesting the proposed takeover of several U.S. ports by a company owned by the United Arab Emirates. Quoth the Senator…
The more things change, the more they stay the same: David Irving reverts to form.
Posted by Orac on February 28, 2006 Well, that didn’t take long. Only a few days after his conviction for Holocaust denial, David Irving has reverted to form: Far-right author David Irving’s repudiation of his views on the Holocaust and Hitler’s role in it has not lasted very long. In a prison interview just days after he told an Austrian court he…