Circling the Square http://www.circling.org/ Dark conspiracies, fiendish plots, and end-times paranoia. en-us 2006-06-04T02:32:40-05:00 What Happened to CtS? http://www.circling.org/archives/000028.html Good question. We haven't been idle. We've just been focused on other activities: Saving the world, overthrowing the government, learning to play the bagpipe. However, one of our staffers has been very busy on another website: JOEY HEADSET. If you... CtS scola 2006-06-04T02:32:40-05:00 Letter To Pat Robertson http://www.circling.org/archives/000026.html Dear Pat, Don't get me wrong, it's fun to call for the assassination of people you don't like. I do it all the time! Hell, if I had a dollar for every time I screamed "SOMEBODY KILL THIS JACKASS" at... scola 2005-08-26T03:11:49-05:00 Officer Shaq Protects the Children http://www.circling.org/archives/000025.html Do you like to solicit teenage girls for sex on the internet? Of course you do. Pervert. But the next time you're chatting up some sweet young thing in a chatroom, WATCH OUT. What you think is a horny thirteen... scola 2005-08-11T04:27:21-05:00 Fun with Physics http://www.circling.org/archives/000024.html Physicists have all the fun. Perhaps you've read recent stories about the work going on at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider in Upton, NY. The stories have been pretty hard to miss. First, scientists claim they've created a miniature black... Science/Technology scola 2005-03-22T00:42:40-05:00 "Kill Yourself For Jesus" http://www.circling.org/archives/000023.html From time to time, CtS will utilize the Google search engine to scope out various phrases that relate to matters of national and international importance. The phrase quoted above yielded only seven results - none of them were of particular... scola 2005-01-18T02:39:15-05:00 Antimatter Rules, Nukes Drool http://www.circling.org/archives/000022.html Don't get us wrong: Nuclear weapons are great! You can kill a whole lot of people with nuclear weapons. Plus, nuclear weapons are plentiful. Here in the US, we have enough warheads to kill damn near every living thing on... Science/Technology scola 2004-12-24T18:25:28-05:00 Robots and Senior Citizens: A Lethal Combination http://www.circling.org/archives/000021.html Old people and cutting edge technology just don't mix. If you've ever seen grandma fumbling with a remote control... or witnessed grandpa, bewildered at the sight of a newfangled Video Cassette Recorder... you know this to be true. Machines more... Science/Technology scola 2004-12-07T22:36:27-05:00 Voting - Don't Believe the HYPE http://www.circling.org/archives/000020.html In the United States, today is Election Day. For months, American citizens have been bombarded with campaign ads, political posters and 24 hour media coverage of the race. As usual, the election has proven extremely decisive - on just about... Politics scola 2004-11-02T02:42:06-05:00 Update: Paranoia XP and LiveJournal Syndication Feed http://www.circling.org/archives/000019.html Greetings loyal readers! It has been a slow summer here at CtS World Headquarters... sometimes even The Truth has to take a vacation. But even as the weather cools down, things are heating up here at Circling the Square! We... Update scola 2004-08-31T14:23:05-05:00 DOOM DOOM DOOM! http://www.circling.org/archives/000018.html Pasty, friendless adolescents rejoice: DOOM 3 has finally been released! The long awaited third installment of the DOOM series is in stores RIGHT NOW... and all you need to play is good hand-eye coordination, a fridge stocked with caffeinated beverages,... Mass Culture scola 2004-08-06T00:13:04-05:00 Carbs on the Brain http://www.circling.org/archives/000017.html Most of the world thinks that Americans are fat and stupid. That, of course, is a matter of opinion - but the growing American obsession with low carb diets is a matter of fact. Low carb beer, low carb pasta,... Your Health scola 2004-05-26T02:48:13-05:00 When Zombies Attack http://www.circling.org/archives/000015.html Americans LOVE zombies. And who can blame them? Perhaps nothing represents the day-to-day existence of average Americans better than a swarm of mindless, foul-smelling, bloodthirsty zombies. Even so, the walking dead are a tribe most people would prefer to admire... Monsters scola 2004-04-05T03:00:10-05:00 MarthaCorp up for Grabs http://www.circling.org/archives/000014.html It was the shot heard 'round suburbia: Martha Stewart found guilty on four counts. Four counts of... well, of doing pretty much the same tricks that put George W. Bush and Dick Cheney into the running-the-country business. Alas, Martha made... Media scola 2004-03-09T03:21:16-05:00 Keep your dirty fingers out of my brain! http://www.circling.org/archives/000013.html Big Brother scola 2004-02-23T03:51:54-05:00 Update: Supermice, Cuddly Infections http://www.circling.org/archives/000012.html Here are a few developing stories we are keeping our eyes on. Supermice: In 1999, Circling the Square reported on some rather disturbing experiments happening at Princeton, the purpose of which was to create a new race of super-intelligent laboratory... Update scola 2004-02-18T01:18:42-05:00