We all know and love the power of Cascading Style Sheets. With them, a wise webmaster can separate style from structure, fine-tune a layout to unprecedented levels, maintain a whole website easily, make HTML lose some serious weight, cure cancer and bring peace to the Middle East, among other niceties. [read on, 913 other words]

Peak nociceptor activation? What the hell is that? Well, knowing that nocere is Latin for "to hurt", peak nociceptor activation is a savant, politically correct way of describing the maximal stimulation of pain neurons in the human body. [read on, 199 other words]

In a rare hourlong public address to a 200+ audience at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on March 2nd, 2005, ex-CIA clandestine officer Porter Goss said he could barely cope with the workload associated with his new duties as CIA Director. [read on, 171 other words]

Mayhem is what best describes the scene at Gemelli Hospital in Rome earlier today. In what can only be considered as YAM (Yet Another Miracle), Pope John Paul II was first pronounced clinically dead after a painful agony, came back to life, stood up, waved cheerfully to the crowd, sang two Ave Maria, moonwalked a bit, and dropped back to a state of clinical death. [read on, 177 other words]

The Sunshine Project, a civilian organization that studies the development of chemical and biological warfare capabilities in various countries, has made public a previously classified document titled "Harassing, Annoying, and 'Bad Guy' Identifying Chemicals" proposed to the Department of Defense (DoD) by the Wright Laboratory. [read on, 222 other words]