The Corner Blog Archives: December 2006
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27 December 2006
Finding ourselves in a brown spot.
By John Robb, two interesting articles about Peak Oil - the Washington Post reports a serious decline in Iran’s oil revenue, and earlier there was an announcement that the world’s second largest oil field - the Burgan in Kuwait - has already peaked. Interesting is that the article in the Washington Post doesn’t state if […]
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15 December 2006
Warfare part II - the campaign continues
Now, if anybody read the last post, you know that I’ve been having a wee fight with Bus Eireann after having had a particularly bad experience another day. After having received a reply - of sorts - from a mr. O’Shea, I decided it was time to continue with a letter that was somewhat more […]
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13 December 2006
Warfare
I’ve been having, let’s say, ‘issues’ with Bus Eireann lately. After one particularly infuriating evening of rain and wind, during which I spent an hour and a half outdoors due to their almost comical ineptitude, I decided to do something I very rarely do: write a letter of complaint. An angry letter.
And I feel it […]
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10 December 2006
Space extraction of Swedes got green light
The extraction of swedes finally started last night. Shuttle launched at 1:47 Greenwich Men Time took swedish physicist Christer Fuglesang away from Earth to the orbit.
According to NASA’s representative, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, this was a test flight in order to monitor how much the swedes actually resist space launches. As the extraction went better than […]
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8 December 2006
Ex-CEO of Nokia will continue for 2nd season in the Shell
The ex-CEO of Nokia, Jorma Ollila, will continue in shell for a second season. The first season of “In Shell” was a huge success, where Ollila was living in a closet only communicating to outside world via ssh. He will continue “at least for a second season” as Ollila, bit thinner than before, announced on […]
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4 December 2006
Britain renewing it’s nuclear warheads
Great Britain announced today with the mouth of Tony Blair that they will continue the upkeep of their nuclear arsenal. Blair announced that they will replace the obsolete strategic warheads in nuclear subs with new ones.
“We just cannot be sure that our brave country wouldn’t be threatened with nuclear weapons in the next decades”, Blair […]