Because nothing says luxury like the remnants of the Cold War with a dash of paranoia

All you need is $2.3 million:

(via Missile Silo the 20th century castles)

Jamais Cascio decides to bum out everybody and make a framable eschatalogical taxonomy:

(via warren ellis)

Iran announced new tests of short-range missiles Sunday.

U.S. contingency planning for military action against Iran’s nuclear program goes beyond limited strikes and would effectively unleash a war against the country, a former U.S. intelligence analyst said on Friday.

Poland said on Sunday it was still in talks with the United States about the possibility of allowing it to base an anti-missile system on its soil. Moscow has warned it will take unspecified measures against Poland if it accepts the defense system.

China Blows Shit Up in Space
Jan. 18, 2007 — China last week successfully tested a system that can destroy spacecraft, sending notice to the United States that it will not be the only country to be able to protect its satellites and spacecraft in orbit.

The Chinese test, which will be reported in next week’s issue of Aviation Week and Space Technology, is believed to have occurred on Jan. 11. The magazine will report that a ballistic missile was fired from or near China’s Xichang Space Center and that it successfully destroyed an old Chinese weather satellite as it flew about 530 miles above the planet.

U.S. officials have expressed concern over the test.

(via discovery news and warren ellis)

I heard this same thing about blondes for years now. Snopes called that story bollocks.

Guess the legend shifted:

If predictions by the Oxford Hair Foundation come to pass, the number of natural redheads everywhere will continue to dwindle until there are none left by the year 2100.

The reason, according to scientists at the independent institute in England, which studies all sorts of hair problems, is that just 4 percent of the world’s population carries the red-hair gene. The gene is recessive and therefore diluted when carriers produce children with people who have the dominant brown-hair gene.

Dr. John Gray’s explanation of his foundation’s findings: “The way things are going, red hair will either be extremely rare or extinct by the end of the century.”

(via the seattle times)