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• Green tax: another raid is coming
• Mob rule
• Punting pointless petitions
• Why the media will lose this battle
• Mobile payments talk at #tech4africa
• Global warmism needs a fisking
• I love my pussy
• Go ahead, have a baby (and its serious rewrite)
• Another day, another ICASA stuff-up
• Xenophobia is an economics problem
• About labour law, xenophobia and Dimension Data
• Hup Holland, Hup!
• A little orange number. Ke nako!
• FIFA’s heart of darkness
• King Ludd Blatter
• TAC: Have some self-respect
• Protest in orange
• Secretly, Match blames South Africa
• Over-excitement at the Gautrain launch
• Why you should boycott FIFA
• Apple’s model labour practices
• Boycott FIFA
• Annoying everyone
• Leave poor BP alone
• Avoid mzan.si, and a sad pub tale
• On the bonsai economy, South by South West, and a dead industry
• The darkness of Africa
• World Cup Match-fixing
• Not Cuba again!
• On privacy, bad publicity, and a whitewash
• The unpublished column that got a reply
• Silly Hour and General Disappointment
• Blogging South by South West
• Keeping up is hard to do
• As climate dominoes fall, a riposte to an alarmist
• Aussies bash Africa over SKA
• Was Nyanda’s early promise too good to be true?
• Screw the consumer
• iDear, Apple, iDear
• In defence of bankers
• Break the banking cartel, and GeekRetreat
• Julius Malema, the walking contradiction
• Boycott FIFA
• Climate clarity
• Rock on, in Midrand, on 93.8FM
• Good advertising and bad advertising
• The wrong consensus in Copenhagen
• Statement on Ramon Thomas
• A Christmas paean to capitalism
• Google’s evil
• Climate fraud kills people
• Fire him, the warmists say
• The climate scandal, and an equally marvellous game
• Murdoch spits into the wind
• Ivo goes to the moon
• TEDxJohannesburg live blog
• I’m back, but I’m not here
• My hiatus, and my pending return
• Pouring cold water on hot air
• Beijing Olympics: red and green converge
• How to stay ahead of the curve
• Making up extinction numbers
• Gordon Brown: save food, you pigs!
• The anti-capitalist clown
• The spike has a birthday
• We got guns too, you know!
• Alec Hogg’s letter on corruption to Jacob Zuma
• Scrooge McDuck is fictional, you know
• Peak Oil paranoia on path to presidency
• There’s no such thing as a “fair” price
• Ben Bernanke doesn’t grasp inflation
• The beauty of the industrial revolution
• The Spike, now on ITWeb
• Who dared disobey Alec Erwin?
• Scott McClellan’s conversation with his publisher
• Raze the rainforests, save the planet!
• The protest within a protest
• Great countries welcome immigrants
• How to exploit polar bears
• Comments choked on a tittle
• Pegleg Pistorius sweeps the decks
• Buy my laptop, stupid kids!
• The great polar bear crisis
• Blowing Hubble bubbles
• Scarcity should drive prices up, right?
• Great tits cope well with warming
• Squelching to court through a quagmire
• Time to scrap black empowerment
• Unfair, unreasonable and ludicrous
• Who needs subsidies for alt-fuel cars?
• Beware the Alchemists
• Oh, oh, a silver lining!
• Food inflation: lessons from India
• Apologies for the absence
• The Happy Heron
• Who turned down global warming?
• Why aren’t we paying R5.29 for fuel?
• Slash and burn, SA’s food policy
• A grave tale of cruel betrayal
• And maybe, just maybe, we’re right
• Bullard: sorry, was out to lunch with my lawyer
• Sense and civility
• Laugh at most hated man in America
• Welcome, don’t drink the water
• Bullard sorry, was out to lunch
• Fixing the food price “crisis”
• Nuke the environment
• Update: ZA Tech Show on Bullard
• Let the Forum for Black Journalists be
• Beautiful steampunk case mod
• Bullard’s mistake
• David Bullard’s column in Empire
• In defence of colonialism
• Braindead editors in headline drama
• Update 5: Bullard burns at the stake
• Updated: How not to mop up criminals quickly
• Someone broke the internet
• Water on the brain
• Boy scout got merit badges
• The Reutervillage idiot
• The social benefits of peasoup fog
• Wet wet wet
• The ogre of Harare
• Where’d Stiglitz buy his Nobel Prize?
• Rest & recuperation
• Keystone Kops
• Complain. Loudly. And amp it up.
• How to reach any conclusion you like
• Quote of the day, on sovereign wealth funds
• The politics of morality
• Spitzer’s fall from grace saddens me
• Used call girls
• Destination: Soviet Africa
• Where’s my bog-standard bog-roll?
• Does my consensus trump your consensus?
• The Windows Vista downgrade
• Fair trade is unfair (updated)
• How to mop up criminals quickly
• The nanny state is a padded cell
• The flat-earth media (updated)
• The green counter-insurgency
• 10 more reasons to disbelieve global warming
• Ain’t no genie in this magic lamp
• Warning: may contain traces of organic nuts
• Me, hold a grudge?
• Quotable notable quotes no more
• No worries, Alec Erwin will work overtime
• The emerged world of the 21st century
• Think about the poor kitty
• Governments don’t create wealth
• Bright sparks come in all races
• Nuclear industry wins PR award
• Who’s stubborn, Bush or the media?
• By Castro’s beard
• Dead men don’t wear jackboots
• The Somalia anarchocap experiment
• A step farther out
• Voting as an expression of self-interest
• National Rock
• Water: dreaded déjà vu bug strikes
• By nickels and dimes to the American Dream
• Told you Laffer wouldn’t be laughing
• Just call him Moneybags Obama
• If the spike wins the green category…
• Simple solution for power crisis
• Chenge you can believe in
• Bunfight over right-wing radio
• Stop whining, we apologised
• Michael Naicker’s electro-tragicomedy
• Salvaging El Salvador’s salvation
• Caught fibbing again, eh Ms Minister?
• The Gaia death cult
• Feel free to insult me
• The Amazing Adventures of Winston Churchill
• Updated: Clinton loans her own campaign $5 million
• If polar bears are doomed, we all are
• Economic ‘voodoo has no mojo’
• Wonder when poor Matya found out
• The gaudy life in Swedengrad
• Golden handshake and golden gun
• Would you turn left or right?
• The point of the pen
• A million monkeys and one mindless mollusk
• Truth in advertising
• Updated: Eskom’s sacrificial offering?
• Eskom sneaks Corruption House another plum
• Dog solves travelling salesman problem
• Oh, switch off our MINDS, not our MINES?
• Save the pubic louse!
• Where’s the outrage?
• The irony of it all
• Will pop eat itself?
• Wish South Africa produced this stuff
• Fixing the government’s power mess
• Blackouts: who pays for all those extras?
• Lame-duck Bush goes daffy
• A hurricane in a teacup
• Lost nose: life imitates hoax ad
• BillyG whines the American Dream
• Hold on to your gold
• Flat-tax Forbes’s favourite
• Krugman on Obama on Reagan, fisked
• Equivocating about herbal remedies
• How to respond to corruption allegations
• Turf out the ANC liars
• Inflationary solution to power crisis
• Doctrinaire shlock
• The unbearable lightness of campaigning
• Vindication for the racists
• Economic freedom: the soggy side of stagnant
• Debunking deficit spending myths
• The Rise and Fall of HD-DVD
• Pistorius more able than able-bodied
• The Great Selebi Farce
• Crisis du jour: anthropogenic continental drift
• RIP, Hillary
• The vast right-wing conspiracy, now free
• Obsessed with teen sex
• Imagine, poor people with cars!
• The myth of Iraqi carnage
• Hack your dream 787 destination
• What to look for in a president
• Sound-money entertainment
• Time out — and best wishes
• A dorky “best of” link to end 2007
• Juggling matric pass stats
• Bhutto’s eulogy, in her own words
• Could markets make law more efficient?
• 10 reasons to reject global warming still stand
• The corporation, licenced to kill?
• Lame duck? What lame duck?
• Deep Impact, step aside
• A nuclear reactor in my back yard
• Who you gonna call? Gorebusters!
• Postcards from the edge for Xmas
• John Podhoretz, both serious and funny
• Teen hanky-panky shall cease forthwith!
• Zuma: Reap the whirlwind
• Bad, bad Bush-baby
• Supermouse vs Flash Cat
• Studied optimism on Iraq
• Scientists discover what I’ve known all my life
• Bali: 100 scientists appeal for reason
• Wikileaks poses ethical conundrum
• Pontiff pans pontificating planet prophets
• ‘The courage to do nothing’
• Follow the money (II)
• Follow the money (I)
• Bali: manufacturing consensus
• Cool! Anyone know how to drive this thing?
• Now Iran is suddenly nice?
• Corruption House
• Bloodynose for Facebook
• Hungry for book-learnin’
• Caught in Sachs-contradiction
• Can’t say I support the Iraq War
• Guerilla watchmakers
• Killing is now a torture technique
• How Zimbabwe should measure inflation
• The little laptop that couldn’t
• A gem of a fraud
• Buy a lemon, let Facebook squirt it in your eye
• New 2010 World Cup sponsors
• Outwitting high powered mutants
• The Al Gore lobby for venture capitalists
• A paean to smoking
• Mike Huckabee settles it
• Bangladesh: look on the bright side
• BBC debunks the skeptics
• Whatever happened to The Economist?
• Seems it’s not so hot after all
• The great recycling swindle
• Gory science or Gory politics?
• ‘Earth-rise’ from moon orbit — in high-def
• Historical diversions for a sick-day
• The curse of the central banker
• Oh dear, Iraq’s not a disaster
• Whales do die of old age, you know
• People died. Who cares?
• Healthcare rhetoric shot down
• Facebook: the decline begins
• Why it’s nice to be called Smuts
• Mbeki on apartheid reparations lawsuit
• Blame Bush? Blame Greenspan!
• Welcome to the information age
• Climate skepticism in the language of your choice
• Joburg’s sensible place names
• Debunking pork myths
• SA internet: cracks widen
• Truth in jest
• It’s not like Google makes stuff
• Info Scandal II: Harber spots one difference
• Marc Andreessen explains OpenSocial
• Debunking US healthcare canards
• Info Scandal II
• Spot the idiots
• A case for comparative advertising
• The Golf Tournament. Be there!
• The pill pusher’s poison plot
• Google’s social network plans emerge
• Abolish the Department of Communications
• Let’s hear it for SABC management
• Mugabe’s Moses
• Govt on ODF: Looks good, is bad
• Personae non grata
• Facebook: go poke yourself
• Updated: Ivo Vegter has left Facebook
• Climate clairvoyance is certainly uncertain
• The Dreamline kool-aid acid test
• This is a poke-free zone
• Ban the internet!
• The media boycott, with my money
• ‘Bafana Bafana’ offends Mbeki
• I’m the spindoctor, yeah baby — Snuki
• Amazon patent insanity isn’t over
• 10 reasons to reject global warming
• ‘You will be (mis)informed’
• Racism cuts both ways
• Global warming is a hoax
• I’m speechless
• Behold the power!
• Humour among thieves
• Do you feel lucky? Well, do ya, punk?
• Top 10 ways to destroy the earth
• Cap-and-trade is not ‘market oriented’
• Ten years to test one click
• Let’s just make everything free!
• Gore’s human sacrifices
• Got toothache? Got pliers? Glue?
• I was wrong on a Peace Prize for Yunus
• Who needs private capital?
• Essays on economic freedom
• Whoa, she sure is hot!
• Top editor calls Mbeki “unmitigated disaster”
• Wag of the day — on Gore, naturally
• Thabo Mbeki, Che cultist
• Classic price control crisis
• Earthquake warning for Stockholm
• The candyman can’t
• Gore gored: Nine inconvenient rulings
• Why I’m defending Gary Player
• Poison Ivy an ‘unguided missile’
• Mandela should boycott South Africa
• Poison Ivy and Stockholm Syndrome
• Brutish pigs oppress innocent kid
• Selebi: presidents have been impeached for less
• Gary Player in the rough
• Merkel: stating the obvious
• ‘Gay bomb’ wins Ig Nobel
• Selebi: warrants issued, withdrawn
• The insidious influence of NGOs
• Repudiating the silence on Zimbabwe
• Rocket scientists can’t count
• Neoconservatism, alive and kicking
• “Unauthorised” Mbeki doccie screened
• Bandwidth usage cap throttles development
• The Party expects discipline!
• The new SABC as old-style censors
• Finally, a real reason to buy a Mac
• Mbeki ducks and dives, dodges question
• Hammering an old hippie
• Solipsism in Reuterville
• Internet-savvy vegetable unions
• Administrivial aside
• Ethanol: of course it’s a mistake
• Selebi, Pikoli and the role of the media
• The futility of inspections
• Ashamed to be South African today
• Who says Osama is off the agenda?
• Warrant out for SA police chief and Interpol chair
• The crimes of Bush and Blair
• Soweto mall: liberals sneer
• ‘Manto Babalaas-Msimang’
• Betting the company
• Why bother talking to plants?
• Integrity of integrity conference in question
• Christine Qunta’s rising star
• The debate is over — Ahmadinejad
• Protesting so geeks can grok
• Life or death for Facebook
• Close the United Nations
• Adult men couldn’t care less
• Israel can still amaze and astound
• Microtrends: the long tail tipping point
• Bush: Mandela is dead
• Am I glad I’m not an Apple victim
• Sentech: starve a fever
• On Greenspan and sea urchins
• Wikipedia as efficient market
• Cars are still okay in Californiay
• Imagine how Iran feels!
• The fatwa as threat
• Happy Hugo’s Vivisectionist Venezuela
• Bullard throws in the towel
• Selective reporting on Greenspan
• Department of Crony Capitalism
• Electric bike builder crashes out
• They must think we’re idiots
• Fly me to the moon
• Dirty money
• End of the world averted
• Homeric prose and rhetoric, sophistry and rhyme
• Guess who’s in the old MGX building?
• Bush and Howard are wrong on climate change
• Shameless corporate bribery
• Poison Ivy dismissal call grows louder
• The shoulders of giants
• The end is nigh, say reliable sources
• Helen Zille arrested
• The generals in the media
• What to do with cyclists
• Just abolish the Dept of Communications
• The world in ASCII art
• ‘Fair use’ not a consumer right
• Sorry iPhone fans, we meant to screw you
• Shoulda known not to sneer at a sailor
• Privacy scare about Facebook
• Branson hopes to find Fossett using Google Earth
• Big issue campaign for Nobel laureate
• How the Vodacom meerkat died
• Miss South Carolina just got the delivery wrong
• Economic freedom: SA stagnant, Zim rock bottom
• What? Ice? Here? Can’t be!
• Wouldn’t you expect thieves to lie?
• China to ditch Mugabe?
• The home of today, as seen ca. 1979
• Spy versus Spy
• See, environmentalism is a religion
• You should read this yesterday
• ‘Everything I want to do is illegal’
• Trusting Wikipedia: a sea change
• Something compulsive for obsessives
• The road to hell is a two-way street
• Apologies to Syria, Sudan
• Stuff the poor, they’re happy
• Debunking third-world myths
• All the advocacy that’s fit to print
• Let’s call it Kryptonite
• I’m in ur newzpaper, makin ur newz
• Apologies: we’re back online
• Forget what I said about the Chief
• The Chief, he gets it
• The Vogons are coming!
• Ubuntu confuses lots of people
• 10 things you did not know about Wikipedia
• Zim’s spindoctor: We’re allright, Jack!
• Every geek needs armour
• The long walk to freedom
• Bummer man, they’re shafting the mountain
• Stats SA whitewashes Wikipedia
• All hail the eco-warriors
• Lego production line builds lego cars
• Shooting Michael Moore
• Child labour: the baby dragon
• Help, a dragon!
• Thabo Mbeki is quite right
• The upside of an unfree press
• Crazy people and crazy glue
• Connect us to the past
• 21 more lying journalists up against the wall
• Don’t click here!
• A revision of history
• Freedom, interrupted
• Mommy, where do babies come from?
• ‘A sinking ship is my spiritual home’
• An inkjet that runs on water
• The staggering stupidity of the state
• The angry mouse
• What is classical liberalism?
• 62 lying journalists against the wall
• Economics is (meta-)universal
• To break, or not to break, a plane
• The life and death of Kevin Carter
• Al-France Propaganda in Iraq (updated)
• The science is unsettled
• Who’s defacing Wikipedia? (updated)
• Top 12 notes on a free market
• That famous Kruger video
• Quote of the day
• Taken for a ride on oil
• Global warming bugs, update
• They got Karl Rove!
• Progress, perspective, not from a politician
• It’s only natural. Everyone does it.
• The devil plays the flute
• Tape the war, I’ll watch it later
• Global warming just a Y2K bug
• South Africa polishes its foreign reputation
• Charley is not like other cats
• Software firms must pay for online crime
• Segwhat? And who cares?
• If we disagree, one of us is wrong
• Leeches and their fellow travellers
• Taxi myths and morals
• Computers of wood and brass
• Haha, Hillary, humbug!
• You’re in the right place
• Zeus plays the keys
• Murdoch needs Harry Potter magic
• The hyper-local blog reporter
• The great history spam scam
• Why don’t we hear echos of World Cup ‘95?
• Foretaste of Gautrain?
• When we wuz young
• Mousey Brown being sharp
• “Renewable energy could ‘rape’ nature”
• ICASA’s trial by fire
• Why Iraq, and not Zimbabwe?
• Stop the world, SA wants to get off
• Lessons in foreign policy
• Braindead, and passing laws to prove it
• Long live the profiteers
• Dutch disease
• Bush: really, they ain’t lying
• Atmospheric pressure at the SABC
• Suicide is brainless
• Coming soon: strip show idols
• CNN/YouTube debates a fraud
• Poison Ivy’s eurocentrism
• Column: The brilliance of Alec Erwin
• Harry Potter and the War on Terror
• Eskom: we’re light years behind, so pony up
• Guess this chap isn’t iPhone crazy
• History will judge Iraq withdrawal harshly
• “Illiterate piffle”, ruled the judge
• Does Ron Paul speak for libertarians?
• The universe, sorted
• NY Times, WaPo seen as biased; WSJ neutral
• Update: Oscar floored
• Let’s pick on Pik
• Three strikes for a Stryker
• Modern Major Googler
• Moore, the “journalist”
• I thought the science was settled!
• I.K. Brunel, Engineer
• Oscar Pistorius with a spring in his step
• Broken iPhone beats no iPhone
• Mbeki, a racist on crime
• Africa and aid: read this
• War scheduled for Sunday
• The illogic of the CCCP
• Google Earth version 007
• White House scribe on Caplan book
• Facebook and critical mass
• The Gospel according to Gore
• When fur trade goes wrong
• iAnger and iRage
• Going cheap: a genuine Rolex
• The Pantland Rebuttals, part 1A
• Don’t let them vote
• Democracy is fair, but is it good?
• Google’s in-video adverts
• The real Cuba
• Jogging: right-wing behaviour
• A soldier’s thoughts
• Crime: look away, look away
• Good question from the war reporter
• For God’s sake, Bono, please stop!
• Ask for help, get hijacked
• Enough about Paris Hilton!
• Dog doo scarier than global warming
• War reporter, first class
• Sicko latex fetish look
• To the pillory for success
• First impression: the iPhone sucks
• “…drinking unicorn giggles…”
• “Don’t worry, we’re communists”
• Mangling English
• Go on, break the law!
• In the dark about policy
• Unite against term limits
• What freedom means
• LPG: Lessons in Pricing from Gas
• Spot the difference
• *tap* *tap* *squeal*