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Grandfather Economic Report - Home Page - by MWHodges Cleaning up my bookmarks. Found this. Great intor to the real world for Liberals (lots of pictures!)

USNews.com: Health: In Brief: Seniors' Health: Longevity (12/31/04): "It must be the chocolate...or the cheese...or the Alpine air...or the fierce independence. People in Switzerland are more likely to make it to 100 than people in any other European country. Researchers in France and in Lausanne, on the shores of Lake Geneva, looked at patterns of age in Switzerland." Definitely, HAS to be the chocolate.

IBM hands Lenovo billion-dollar PC loser | The Register

Philips DVP642 DVD player brings MPEG4 to the masses

The Seattle Times: Pacific Northwest Magazine An article well worth reading in its entirety at some point.

Ernie The Attorney: Windows error messages make me feel at home Don't tell me that all the news stories detailing commuter delays over the holidays forgot to mention that it was a WINDOWS problem!

Web3D Consortium - Open Standards for Real-Time 3D Communication

The Flux Papers"In my world view, the best and surest path to making money with real time interactive 3D over the long haul requires standards. Are they sufficient? Of course not. But they are absolutely necessary. Without standards, the market will never reach an interesting enough size. Without standards, customers will never invest in a new technology like real time 3D, unless of course it is supplied by you-know-who, and they don?t seem to be in much of a hurry. (The latest estimates I?ve heard place spinning boxes in the operating system by 2007. Sorry, Bill, but the world isn?t going to wait that long.) Without standards, real time 3D will continue wandering about its own version of the Balkans, with rich content trapped in $20,000 CAD design seats or withering away on proprietary vines, unplayable because the player company is out of business or changed its mind to meet the fashion of the day."

Adobe AtmosphereOUCH! I really liked this program. Excep they became too dependant on Windows and IE.

My Way News: "Egeland told reporters on Tuesday: 'I've been misinterpreted when I yesterday said that I believed that rich countries in general can be more generous.'" No, Fire this guy.

U.N. official slams U.S. as 'stingy' over aid - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - December 28, 2004UN: Fire this guy!

Block I Apollo Guidance Computer Replica

New World Notes: THE NINE SOULS OF WILDE CUNNINGHAM, PART I

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Scientists get to the root of colour loss: "The scientists traced the greying process to the demise of a type of stem cell in the skin. These make a continuous supply of melanocytes, cells which produce pigments in skin and hair. These stem cells not only get depleted over time, they also start making mistakes, turning into melanocytes in the wrong place in the hair follicle where they are unable to colour the hair."

Next IBM-Apple chip getting high-end feature | CNET News.com: "The technology, called partitioning, relies on a concept called virtualization that breaks the hard link between an operating system and the underlying hardware. Partitioning is available today only on servers using IBM's higher-end Power4 and Power5 processors and in competing server designs from Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard and Intel." Can ya dig it?

Salt Lake Tribune - Breaking: Corporate ousters at SCO parent company At lat this disgusting debacle draws to a close!

The Linux Link: Portal To Linux Web Radio Shows

LugRadio.org - Home page

Google Pictures: Chris Breikss and Google Adwords Team Members Is it just me or is there a bit of nepotism going on here?

Torvalds: A Solaris skeptic | Newsmakers | CNET News.com: "That's why I think the commercial desktop is important: It's what made DOS (and later Windows) feel familiar to people, and I think that's where the more general desktop push ends up happening. But it's going to take years" I'm glad he said that.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Washington Post buys Slate online magazine: "Microsoft Corp. sold its popular Slate online magazine Tuesday to The Washington Post Co., a move that makes Slate's political commentary and quirky feature articles more broadly available across the Internet." Now I find this an odd statement, true though it may be, that content owned by a traditional print media company has a better chance of being broadly available on the Internet than it has in the hands of a major, no THE major software company of our time. It says a lot about the nature of Microsoft.

Walmart.com debuts sub-$500 Linux laptop It's a sad day when you can buy a laptop computer for less than the cost of a limited palmtop device. Gradually these price inequities are being erased. Now for another round of price cutting on desktop systems, and more pressure on software companies to admit that they have long ago amortized their development costs or come out with something that is actually new and innovative. For that last item we won't be holding our breath.

On-demand publishing for books, music, images: Lulu.com

Linux Opinion: An Open Letter to a Digital World (LinuxWorld)(Printview): "The clean up from these types of infections is great fun. I spent not less than 5 hours running about every spyware prevention program known to man. Each one searching for those pesky files and registry settings. The worst thing of all was that, once I cleared them off the disk, simply starting Internet Explorer would reinfect the whole system. Seriously, it was great fun and I did, eventually, have the satisfaction of beating the problem. That's right - a system administrator for 10 years with a degree in computer science and a RHCE CAN clean up a single spyware infection in 5 hours." Maybe the ACLU should sue Microsoft. Two sources of evil in perpetual death grip. Worse could happen.

ACLU members cry foul over its data collection - The Register-Guard, Eugene, Oregon, USA Maybe they should sue themselves?

OfB.biz: Open for Business - Perspectives on KDE Multimedia: "The second question, however, is much harder. 'What goals are those and how do we decide which applications best fulfill those?' That's something that I think traditional development models would answer with 'Here's the application that you'll use, because it's, well, the only one that we're giving you.' I must say that at times the simplicity of such is appealing. But we're more or less forced into an evolutionary approach, which I think has some nice side effects as well."

BOFH gets into the Xmas spirit | The Register

Moore's Law turns into Moron's Law

OhmyNews International Interesting.

Wired News: Linux: Fewer Bugs Than Rivals From the We Think We Already Knew This department.

Harvard University Library: "Harvard Libraries and Google Announce Pilot Digitization Project with Potential Benefits to Scholars Worldwide"

InformationWeek > Browser Security > Penn State Tells 80,000 Students To Chuck IE > December 10, 2004: "'The University computing community [should] use standards-based Web browsers other than Internet Explorer to help minimize exposure to attacks that occur through browser vulnerabilities,' added ITS." Who knows. Could a standards based operating system be next?

Wintasks 5 Professional: A Windows background boffin Windows: A popular computer operating system of the late 20th century known for including things not normally thought to belong in an operating system and yet still leaving out basic things like complete task monitoring.

Forbes.com: The Battle Of The DVD: "The consortiums backing both are marching on, despite the fact that the duel between the VHS and Betamax video tape formats is cited ad nauseum as a textbook example of a costly business blunder that angered consumers and held back the technology's adoption." Note to media giants: F-you!

IEEE Spectrum Careers"In particular, Smucker's claimed that Albie's had infringed Smucker's recently granted U.S. Patent No. 6004596, which gives the Orrville, Ohio, company broad protection on its "sealed crustless sandwich." In a move that undoubtedly surprised the jam magnates, Albie's decided to defend itself in federal court. Albie's law firm noted in its filings that the "pasty"?a meat pie with crimped edges?has been popular fare in northern Michigan since the immigration of copper and iron miners from Cornwall, England, in the 19th century. A battle in federal court over peanut butter and jelly sandwiches may seem merely funny and a little pathetic. But it is symptomatic of the larger and more profound problems with the U.S. patent system. We have reached the point where serious lawyers are being paid serious fees by a big company to shut down the PB&J operation of a grocery store."

USATODAY.com - Deciphered chicken genome sheds light on human DNA: "Not surprisingly, chickens were found to lack any version of the human genes for milk, saliva and tooth enamel. These genes were, as the scientists put it in a presentation for reporters, as rare as hen's teeth. Unfortunately, the new analysis shed no light on a mystery that has long bedeviled humanity: Why does the chicken cross the road? 'That question,' Wilson observed in an interview, 'is still out there to be answered.'"

Apple of IBM's eye? | The Registermmmm-meby.

Is IBM PC sell off preparation for a Power chip attack? | The Register *nods*

MSNBC - Bloggerman by Keith Olbermann"If untold numbers of operatives really were dispatched to polling places around the country to enact the most nefarious political plot in this country?s history, why would the ring-leaders reveal to any of them any of the following: * The total amount spent on the plan (Madsen drops the $29 million dollar figure in the first sentence)? * The primary source of the carefully laundered cash (Madsen sites ?Five Star Trust?)? * The sources of ?other money used to fund the election rigging? (Madsen lists ?siphoned Enron money stored away in accounts in the Cook Islands?)? Most importantly, having told their minions all of this damning information, having sent them out on an evil mission that if exposed could overturn an election and require the building of extra prisons just to hold all those who would be convicted in such an overarching scheme, why on earth would they try toget away with not paying them?" Other good thoughts there too.

The New Yorker: The Perfect Mystery"He had been investigating the whereabouts of an archive of Conan Doyle?s papers, which he believed had been stolen. At the same time, he hinted that there had been threats to his life and that he was being followed; soon afterward, he was found garroted in his room, surrounded by Sherlock Holmes books and posters, with a cord around his neck."

Coastal drowning scenario? Interesting info on other topics too.

Lawmakers Want MLB to Fix Steroid Woes"Sen. John McCain, the driving force behind changing how baseball polices performance-enhancing drug use, said Sunday he believes President Bush would sign a bill into law." Drudge had a good idea about this... How about mandatory drug tests for Congresspeople. Makes perfect sense to me. Baseball players can take all the drugs they want as far as I care.

AMD projects January Shock'n'Awe

MSNBC - The Airbus Showdown: "It's time to stop the subsidy game. The Bush administration proposed a pragmatic bargain: all past subsidies would be accepted; future subsidies would be banned. Airbus plans a direct competitor plane to the 7E7 (to be called the A350) and wants more subsidies. These would be prohibited. If Boeing countered the A380 with an improved version of its jumbo 747, it would be barred from subsidies."

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Really huge flotilla of seagulls a few hundred yards off the beach. Has been out there for at least an hour.

The New York Times > Education > New York City Needs $5.6 Billion More to Run Schools, Panel Says BILLION?! MORE?! Are they nuts?

NewsForge | The Linux Show is dying :(

PC Pro: News: Microsoft loses China contract at last minute

Rather deserves respect But he would deserver a lot more respect if he had "retired" before going off the deep end on several occasions. The last half of his career has been mere comedy.

NewsForge | Ten axioms of computing? Call them Windows flaws Done.

My Way News: "LOS ANGELES (AP) - Godzilla received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday, 50 years after he stomped onto movie screens and hours before the premiere of his latest film, 'Godzilla: Final Wars.'" About damned time too! Unfortunately the effort to capture his footprints on the walk of fame lead to the destruction of two restaurants and a movie theater nearby.

Obit: Kenneth Iverson - Charismatic mathematician who invented the APL computer programming language: "Iverson was married to Jean, who survives him, along with their four children. Kenneth Iverson, inventor of the APL programming language, was born on December 17, 1920. He died on October 19, 2004, aged 83." Sad news.

Law Prohibits Dog and Cat in Same House Government gone mad.

Seeing Red - Spontaneous anti-American demonstrations? Think again.: "The WPC was created by Moscow in the 1950s and had only one task: to portray the United States as being run by a 'war-mongering government.' To make it look like a Western organization, Moscow headquartered it in Paris, but in 1954 the French government accused the WPC of being a Soviet puppet and kicked it out of France. Therefore, its headquarters were moved to Soviet-occupied Vienna, and then to Prague when Austria became neutral. It is remarkable that, after the Soviet Union collapsed and the United States remained the only superpower, Romesh Chandra moved his WPC to Athens and focused its operations toward 'waging a struggle against the New World Order.' According to its current charter, adopted during a 1996 Peace Congress in Mexico, the WPC has now 'broadened into a worldwide mass movement' whose task is to support 'those people and liberation movements' fighting 'against [American] imperialism.'"

U.S. Air Force Selects Microsoft Software and Services In Technology Transformation Effort to Increase Security: "525,000 Software Licenses Awarded Through Dell; Microsoft to Standardize Infrastructure, Provide Support for One of the World's Largest Global Enterprises"... "The combined value of the contracts could total more than $500 million over a six-year period." OK, so in case you fainted when you read that the government saved $100 million in the article below, the gloating Microsoft version of the article makes the math pretty simple. Roughtly 500K desktops. Then 500M over 6 years. Getting out my calculator... That $1000 per seat! Now YOU may think that is a great example of government barganing power, and some government morons, excuse me, CIO, may think so too. But I bet they are paying less than that per seat for the hardware. Balmer: "Bend over General!" General: *salutes* "Yes Sir!"

Techworld.com - US military gets its own secure version of Windows Gov't CIO's = fuckwits. Nuff said.

U.K. government hit with another large computer failure - Computerworld: "Microsoft Corp. and Electronic Data Systems Corp. (EDS) run the DWP's network as part of a $3.8 billion information technology contract." "The DWP, which is responsible for providing a variety of state benefits to about 24 million people, attempted to downplay the effect the computer problems will have on its customers, saying that the department's mainframe computers were not affected." Good ole mainframes. As to all that PC shit: Time to ask for a refund maybe?

Yahoo! News - Bush Wins New Mexico by 5,988 Votes

My Way News Photo - UKRAINE ELECTIONS In Ukraine, the thugs that run things at least LOOK like thugs. Hey, they swear on the Bible now. I wonder what they swore on before. Das Kapital?

CBC News: Risk of death from obesity overestimated for Americans: "ATLANTA - Mathematical errors may have caused scientists to inflate the number of obesity-related deaths in the U.S., health officials said Tuesday." Thank goodness biologists are lousy at math!

HEALTH: Girl Power Needed to Fight AIDS: "The good news is that global spending on AIDS has risen three times since 2001 to 6.1 billion dollars a year, and that access to key prevention and care services has improved significantly. Yet the disease continues to spread. " Some people have odd ideas about what constitutes good news.

ABC News: Dan Rather to Leave 'CBS Evening News' This hardly seems like punishment. What was I thinking?

Is Freedows Linux a better Windows than Lindows?

Microsoft gave the press an MSN Search screenshot ? using Firefox, but denies that it had done so

local6.com - Sports - Two Fans Sue Pacers Over Brawl: "According to WDIV-TV, the Indiana Pacers and three of its players -- Artest, O'Neal and Jackson -- are named as defendants in the lawsuits. The Palace basketball arena may be included in the lawsuit at a later date, according to the station's reports. It is unclear at this point what, if any, damages are being sought."

Debian -- Debian-InstallerRC 2 of Installer out. I'm tempted to blow away one of my existing systems just to try it out. Production level Sarge is gonna be SO cool.

Saudis, Arabs Funneled Millions to President Clinton's Library - November 22, 2004 - The New York Sun: "The governments of Dubai, Kuwait, and Qatar and the deputy prime minister of Lebanon all also appear to have donated $1 million or more for the archive and museum that opened last week." Not that that necessarily MEANS anything of course.

People still thick despite internet | The Register: "Sadly, web utopians will just have to accept that the internet is ultimately no different to that previously-hailed great leveller: the printed word. As the old saying goes - you can lead a horse to the complete works of Shakespeare but you can't make it read."

Collaboration by consent: "Custom applications support interagency data sharing, including both inquiry-based and message-based solutions. JNET is built on the Java Message Service, which allows application components built on Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition to create, send and receive messages. User querying of other agencies' databases via JNET can be done with Web browsers or Web applications that send requests to the messaging service."

UN staff to vote on no-confidence motion against Annan

Yahoo! News - Clinton Unveils His 'Gift to the Future' Some sort of giant vibrating cigar maybe?

New York Post Online Edition: entertainment: "'You only need five words. Alexander says, 'Stay with me tonight, Hephaistion,' and you get it. If you don't get it, f--- you, it's your problem.'" F-YOU Oliver Stone. You are a typical Hollywood moron.

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Clinton due to open his library: "'It was maddening to be president and see people make judgements that were completely disconnected from what we were doing every day,' he said." Yeah. I bet he got a lot more intern-tail than the press let us know about. Yes Virginia, ANYONE can become President.

BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Clinton due to open his library Hey it really DOES look like a trailer! Clinton's only regret on this occasion was the need to return to Arkansas.

OpinionJournal - Come Clean, Kofi - The U.N. secretary-general ducks responsibilty for the Oil for Food scam.

The Incredibles -- The Official Movie Website Good thing about animations: No political opinions!

My Way News Bleh. Oil and water.

Technology News: Wireless: Wireless LANs Gain Popularity Despite Risks Ocean City Reference.

Yahoo! News - WHEE TIME!: "So great ventures, democratic in composition, are struggling for historical affirmation. They are animated, ultimately, by the transcendent human ambition, which is to live as free as possible in a world in which so many claims are made on us."

CNET Holiday Countdown - CNET.com I just got e-mail from CNET. I figured they would be out of business by now. Obviously they need to have a few more layoffs. Oh... I get it. Christmas season, and all of the coverage is abut things you HAVE to buy. For a sec there I thought they had let those silly technical people back into the building. Nope. Still content-free. *whew*

Techworld.com - Gates declares death of passwords What an idiot!

ThankYouTony.com: A site to thank Prime Minister Tony Blair for his support of the American actions in Iraq.

Microsoft showing signs of total disarray "Nope, the Vole is too busy trying to get security patches out for its existing code base and reworking Longhorn so it can get it to ship by late 2006, gutting out an (allegedly) revolutionary file system. And to top it all off, Steve Ballmer is running around saying that a $100 PC would stem piracy, but doesn't really discuss how a $100 PC would solve the problem of the $200 list price for Windows XP."

Economist.com | Intellectual property"In 1998 America introduced so-called ?business-method? patents, granting for the first time patent monopolies simply for new ways of doing business, many of which were not so new. This was a mistake. It not only ushered in a wave of new applications, but it is probably inhibiting, rather than encouraging, commercial innovation, which had never received, or needed, legal protection in the past. Europe has not, so far, made the same blunder, but the European Parliament is considering the easing of rules for innovations incorporated in software." Hmmmm, let's see, who was that guy in office in 1998?

The New York Times > National > Members of Cuban Troupe Say They Will Seek Asylum: "AS VEGAS, Nov. 14 - In what appears to be the largest mass defection of Cuban performers to date, 44 dancers, singers and musicians, here to stage a revue, plan to seek political asylum in the United States, troupe members said on Sunday. Most of the artists intend to deliver their applications for asylum personally on Monday morning at the Federal Building here, the performers said in interviews in an auditorium at the Stardust Resort and Casino, where their 'Havana Night Club' revue is booked for a three-month run. Seven other members of the ensemble have already sought asylum from United States officials in Berlin; those performers were due to travel to Las Vegas in time for the show's opening on Tuesday."

Kudlow's Money Politic$"The brilliant stock strategist Elaine Garzarelli says that if the 80-month moving average of the S&P 500 closes about 1166 on November 30th, it would be a new buy signal. This has only happened 10 times since 1906 (that is, a breakthrough on the 80-month moving average.) Every time, it has led to a very strong bull market. Right now, the S&P 500 index is 1177. Lookin? good."

Yahoo! News - Dollar's Decline Is Reverberating: "Amid worries about bulging U.S. budget and trade deficits, the greenback dropped last week to a record low against the 5-year-old euro, a 12-year low against the Canadian dollar and a nine-year low against an index of major currencies. Many analysts don't see anything that will stop the decline." And many left-wing "analysts" see another oportunity to pounce. If you get your news from sources like this, don't dabble in the stock market, stick with your passbook savings. These guy would rather try and make a political point than actually cover financial news.

Yahoo! News - Boston Archbishop Reveals Pain of Closings: "Parishioners from at least seven churches that have been shut down have refused to leave the buildings in protest of the archdiocese's downsizing plan." Maybe they should have protested some of those lawsuits huh?

Dutch Muslims Dismayed by Anti-Islamic Backlash

MinGW - HomeMinGW: A collection of freely available and freely distributable Windows specific header files and import libraries combined with GNU toolsets that allow one to produce native Windows programs that do not rely on any 3rd-party C runtime DLLs.

Outsourcing to Arkansas | News.blog | CNET News.com

Rural Sourcing, Inc.More power to the red states! Who picked that color scheme anyway? Some undercover commmie no doubt.

local6.com - News - 11-Year-Old Girl Suspended For 'Dangerous' Cartwheels At SchoolMore idiocy from government-run schools.

EllisblogGood one.

Telling the Truth about the Palestinians - Middle East Forum: "I continue to witness what is happening to the Palestinian media under Arafat. Many of my Palestinian colleagues actually envy me for writing for an Israeli paper. Working for the PLO, I was not able to write a word of my own free will. Yet in two years at the Jerusalem Post my editors have never told me what to write. I can function as a journalist at the Jerusalem Post in a way that many Palestinians have tried to function under Arafat, but have failed."

Chicago Teacher In Teen Sex Bust - November 10, 2004Another Teachers Union Success Story.

USATODAY.com - Terrorist says orders come from Arafat

Yahoo! News - Checks Stolen From Dem. Campaign CommitteeYou campaign contributions at work. NOT.

Government Executive Magazine - 12/1/01 Rejected "Some observers say visa processing should be pulled out of the State Department and put into the INS. E. Wayne Merry, a senior associate at the American Foreign Policy Council, a Washington-based think tank, says Foreign Service officers have a service mentality, rather than a law enforcement approach. ?As a 26-year veteran of the Foreign Service, I am skeptical the Foreign Service can inculcate its officers with a law enforcement mentality.? In his March 2001 article, Jones suggested that the bureau merge with INS."

MercuryNews.com | 11/11/2004 | Study: Too much vitamin E adds risk More news from the Sleeper file.

Kudlow's Money Politic$

MSNBC - All in the Family: "Though they groused about the campaign's tardiness and loved to gossip about Teresa, the reporters on the Kerry tour were at the same time somewhat protective of the candidate and reluctant to pass on rumors. Kerry might not be the warmest or jolliest politician, but he was still their candidate, the man they spent day and night following around the country, and whom some of them might follow right to the most prestigious beat in Washington, the White House. No hint of the Kerry-Heinz domestic discord crept into their stories, and the reporters sometimes gave the candidate the benefit of the doubt when he rambled or talked in circles. Reporters on a campaign plane are usually not competitive loners; over the days and weeks, they bond and at deadline time compare notes, out of a sense of collegiality and mutual self-defense."

MSNBC - All in the Family: "The happy-family-vacation scenario was disintegrating in plain view. The candidate tried to bravely soldier on, pulling along his sullen wife and children to show them the magnificent condors flying overhead. It was a losing battle; he was the only one who looked interested." So why DIDN'T the press report this during the campaign?

ELLE.com?I feel that I am not qualified to speak on behalf of something that I'm curious about, that matters to me in a very significant way, because I have not done the work that is required in order to substantiate my opinions. And that's true. I haven't worked for the Red Cross. I haven't been to Sudan to see what's going on. And because of that, I feel that anything that I might speak on behalf of, I'll do more damage to.? An honest Hollywood person!

Timothy P. Carney on Arlen Specter & Election 2004 on National Review Online

Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Inoffensive, ineffective: "Before Kerry strategist Bob Shrum convinces the next crop of Democratic losers to shun gays, shoot geese, and embrace Jesus, he ought to consider the possibility that voters did not reject John Kerry because he is a Massachusetts liberal. They rejected him because they could not figure out who he is or what his party stands for."

Oliver Kamm:"One of the most incredible sentences I've ever seen..." : "Chomsky is an intelligent man who knows how to use language. In this case he is using language to depict the United States as incomparably evil; in order to do that he must distort not only the US record in foreign policy, but also the historical record of the regime in recent history that really was incomparably evil. And that is what Chomsky does. "

diary of an anti-chomskyite: What Uncle Sam Really Wants: A Review

LIES

More Good News!: "Bush's victory sparked speculation that disconsolate Democrats and others might decide to start a new life in Canada, a land that tilts more to the left than the United States. " Don't let the door....

The New York Times > Business > Labor Market Snaps Out of Lull to Add 337,000 New Jobs: "Economists cautioned, however, that a one-month gain did not constitute a trend, since the economy has recorded encouraging spurts of job growth before that have just fizzled out in subsequent months." Let me add, having watched numbers like this being created by the federal government that the methodology used is mostly bogus, consisting of: 1. announce results to public. (First iteration you can just make up a number) 2. compare announce results to results from other sources. 3. take measurements and compare with announced number. 4. average old number, new measurements, measurements from other sources to generate next months number 5. Repeat.

Why Americans Hate Democrats?A DialogueRobert Reich: "Let's be clear: Bush ran on a moral agenda?God, guns, gays, and true grit in fighting the evils of Saddam Hussein and terrorism. Kerry ran on a policy agenda?affordable health care, deficit reduction, and combating terrorism through stronger international alliances and a smarter strategy." No let's be REAL clear: Many of us, when asked by liberal friends examined Kerry's plan and found it wanting (seriously). Many of us when urged to do so viewed Fahrenheit 911 and found it infantile. We wondered how thinking people could buy into these half-baked concepts. The notion that the right won the election based on the votes of ignorant people is belied by the well known fact that the left resorts to busing people who would otherwise not vote at all to the poles.

Yahoo! News - Bush Wins Iowa to Claim Last Three States: "Along with Wisconsin and Minnesota, Iowa and its seven electoral votes are part of the once-Democratic Upper Midwest that is growing more conservative with each presidential election. Kerry won Minnesota by just 3 percentage points, Wisconsin by a single point."

Yahoo! News - WE DIDN'T TELL YOU SO: "The Democrats will need to devise a means of making state socialism a reborn faith. Either that, or just go back to obstructionist tactics in Congress, and a renewed search for the golden boy. Maybe Edwards. He is photogenic and wears his afflatus confidently. "

Yahoo! News - ONE LAST FLIP-FLOP: "To Michael Moore, George Soros, Terry McAuliffe, Dan Rather, Al Franken and the whole gang at Air America Radio -- you were great, guys! Thanks for the help! We couldn't have done it without you!"

My Way News: "JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was declared clinically dead on Thursday in a French hospital, Israeli television said citing French sources." "But Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qurie denied the report, saying: 'I have just spoken to the officials in Paris and they say the situation is still as it was. He is still in the intensive care unit.'"

Walter Williams - Is politics the way?

The New York Times > Science > New Evidence on Main Cause of Cerebral Palsy Too late for all the OBGYNs that John Edwards sued to get a refund?

New UAE president elected - (United Press International) Elected? Let us not ever take REAL elections for granted.

Adobe dipping toes into desktop Linux waters | CNET News.com Good news!

My Way News - Stocks Surge on Presumed Bush Victory: "Stocks surged Wednesday, with the Dow Jones industrials posting a triple-digit gain moments after the opening bell, as investors expressed relief following the election and what's widely believed to be a victory for President Bush."

Global monitors find faults: printer friendly version: "As for electronic voting, Gould said he preferred Venezuela's system over the calculator-sized touchpads in Miami. 'Each electronic vote in Venezuela also produces a ticket that voters then drop into a ballot box,' Gould said. 'Unlike fully electronic systems, this gives a backup that can be used to counter claims of massive fraud.'"

VOTE.COM | Column | MISSING BIN LADEN

Guardian Unlimited | US elections 2004 |Tom Wolf: 'The liberal elite hasn't got a clue': "And John Kerry? 'He is a man no one should worry about, because he has no beliefs at all. He is not going to introduce some manic radical plan, because he is poll-driven, and it is therefore impossible to know where or for what he stands.'"

MadBlast - Political Rhapsody

FactCheck.org Kerry Exaggerates Role in Some Key Legislative Battles

Kerry Leads in Lobby Money (washingtonpost.com): "In the presidential race, Kerry has accepted contributions from the same 'special interests' he accuses Bush of being too cozy with: HMOs, drug companies and energy firms. He has raised nearly $27,000 from oil and gas companies, tops of the remaining Democratic candidates; $34,000 from health maintenance organizations, second to Dean; and $18,500 from pharmaceutical companies, third behind Dean and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (Conn.). Even after subtracting money Kerry has raised for his presidential campaign, he ranks in the top four Senate beneficiaries of lobbyist cash, the CRP found."

Study of Disputed Florida Ballots Finds Justices Did Not Cast the Deciding Vote

Intel sticks with Windows 2000

Symantec's pledge to Microsoft: "We've long been of the belief that Intel is far better than writing software than Microsoft - but it's always laid off doing much more than just writing excellent real time operating systems." I think that was meant to be: "We've long been of the belief that Intel is far better AT writing software than Microsoft - but it's always laid off doing much more than just writing excellent real time operating systems." But we get the point. And agree.

The Observer | Comment | Hitler was evil. Our bombs were not: "'I am sorry that my bombs killed many and made many homeless,' he concluded, 'but I am not ashamed. If a malignant growth must be cut out, without benefit of anaesthetic, then surrounding tissues are bound to be hurt. Had Nazi Germany won the war, the world would now be in an even worse mess. If the only merit was that the gas chambers were abolished, it is sufficient.' And that is why we most definitely do not need to apologise for Dresden. Not unless we want Goebbels to have the last laugh. ? Tony Rennell is the co-author with John Nichol of Tail-End Charlies - The Last Battles of the Bomber War, to be published next Thursday."

BigBlueBall Forums - Hotmail upgrade in process...: "I don't rely on Hotmail for anything, but I did notice they upgraded my account a while ago -- not to 250 MB but a paltry 25 MB. Granted, it's better than 2 MB, but with Gmail account so readily available, who gives a rip?" Sounds like they must be doing the upgrades using people typing in the new storage size BY HAND. Can't they invent a nice point and click GUI interface for their admins?

Hotmail Suffers Storage Gaffe I can't imagine PAYING this group for anything. (Especially when I can get more for free elsewhere)

MSFN - The Hotmail 250MB 2MB saga continues and continues and continues. Look like some MS workers get a bit testy here.

80 hour weeks... Microsoft and Hotmail eat Gmail's dust.

No IllusionsIn a sense it's unfair to blame any political party for attracting the unhinged. Lots of wingnuts on the right claim to have visions, too. Their letters, however, do not appear in National Review Online. Salon, however, seems to celebrate its readers' dysfunction. I'm sorry, but liberals exhibiting signs of mental illness isn't proof that Bush is the antichrist. One Chicago Boyz commenter expresses a similar sentiment: I am voting Bush because I can no longer tolerate stupidity." HA HA!

Forbes.com: Ballmer: Microsoft CEO Says Linux More Vulnerable, Costly Than You Think Well, but then Steve Ballmer is probably a bigger blowhard than we think too. NAH!

Yahoo! News - The tiresome second best: "It's a lot easier to prescribe another dose of free-market medicine than to deal with the intricacies of the second best. Which brings us back to vaccines and airlines. Clearly, neither market is working well now. But the right policy choices will take hard thinking. How many competitors do we want in each field? How much will we pay for broad availability and a high degree of safety? Who should foot the bill? Unfortunately, the demonstrated ability of Washington policymakers to deal with this tough sort of question is all too often, well, second best, at best."

FactCheck.org - Media Fund Twists the Truth More Than Michael Moore I didn't think that was possible. From the article: "This anti-Bush radio ad is among the worst distortions we've seen in what has become a very ugly campaign. It states as fact some of the most sensational falsehoods that Michael Moore merely insinuated in his anti-Bush movie Farenheit 9/11 . The ad was released Oct. 25 by The Media Fund, an independent Democratic group run by former Clinton deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes. It falsely claims that members of the bin Laden family were allowed to fly out of the US "when most other air traffic was grounded," though in fact commercial air traffic had resumed a week earlier. The ad also falsely claims that the bin Laden family members were not "detained," when in fact 22 of them were questioned by the FBI before being allowed to leave -- and their plane was searched as well. And by the way, the man who gave approval for the flight wasn't Bush or even any of his close aides, it was former White House anti-terrorism chief Richard Clarke, now one of Bush's strongest critics."

Yahoo! News - Iran Refuses Nuclear Suspension Again "Britain, France and Germany have offered Iran incentives ? a trade deal and peaceful nuclear technology, including a light-water research reactor ? in return for assurances that Iran will stop enrichment, which can produce fuel for both nuclear energy and atomic weaponry." The Circle Jerk continues.

New Study Finds Media Favored Kerry in First Two Weeks of October They had to do a study?

These Days, Microsoft Isn't So Scary

Yahoo! News - Kerry: Bush Won't Own Up to Bad Decisions I wonder what this obsession is that John Kerry has about mistakes of GWB? In fact listening to Kerrys droning rhetoric on thing that is clearly absent is an confession of error on his part. He was right to go to Vietnam, but it was a wrong war. He either ratted on his compatriots there or was guilty of his own atrocities. He seems, if nothing else, and expert at pointing out the wrongdoings of others in the past and even when those wrongdoings involved him he feels above any blame. Will the Democrats produce yet another Presidential study for the psychiatrist's couch?

DRUDGE REPORT 2004?: "But tonight, NBCNEWS reported: The 380 tons of powerful conventional explosives were already missing back in April 10, 2003 -- when U.S. troops arrived at the installation south of Baghdad!" DUH

Arizona Daily Sun - Flagstaff GOP office vandalized

Early voting brings cries of bullying: "Howard Sherman complained about his voting experience at North Shore Branch Library in Miami-Dade County. He found a crowd of Kerry supporters blocking the door. 'They were positioned directly in front of the entrance to the library in such a manner that it would be impossible to avoid them while entering the polling place,' he reported. Sherman said he tried to slip through the thinnest part of the crowd, but a woman in a Kerry T-shirt grabbed his arm and asked if he was voting for Kerry. 'I seem to recall from civics class that this sort of electioneering is illegal,' Sherman complained to the Republicans. Republican Lawrence Gottfried, who became a poll watcher in Delray Beach after what he thought was inappropriate behavior at the polls, said the things he saw upset him. Gottfried said that while working at the Delray poll, actor Danny DeVito and his wife, actress Rhea Perlman, showed up. Gottfried is a fan, but he didn't ask for an autograph. 'I said, `Look Mr. DeVito, I'm a big fan of yours and Rhea's, but you are blocking the entrance. You're campaigning, you've got a Kerry-Edwards button on, and it's not appropriate.'"

MSNBC - India draws 'medical tourists' Now if we can outsource all lawyers to India we will have a good start.

Security Report: Windows vs Linux | The Register EXCELLENT!

Microsoft gives up Passport world domination wheeze

Bloomberg.com: U.S.: "Taylor says Microsoft in the past focused too much on existing customers." Gee... it can get worse?

Belmont Club

Yahoo! News - Kerry team slams reports VP Cheney had a flu shot "PITTSBURGH, United States (AFP) - Senator John Kerry's presidential campaign slammed Vice President Dick Cheney, a heart patient, over reports he had a flu shot, despite a shortage of the vaccine." Kerry and supporters again prove themselves totally, indelibly, unthinking fuckwits.

SAF: Students For Academic Freedom

THE BELGRAVIA DISPATCH: Why I'm Supporting Dubya

Outside The Beltway

Roger L. Simon: Mystery Novelist and Screenwriter

MEMRI: The Middle East Media Research Institute

Regime Change Iran

Liberating Iraq

New York Daily News - Home - Sweet on O'Reilly - pal Hell Hath No Fury... Sound EXACTLY like your typical sexual harassment to me.

Yahoo! News - SO MARY'S GAY?

Digital Agenda: Homeland security--Throwing money at technology | CNET News.com

Computer problems reported at some early voting sites Surprise, SURPRISE!

MSNBC - Will Oscar Listen?" 'Fahrenheit 9/11' and 'The Passion' were the most electrifying movies of the year. Will Hollywood honor one?or snub the other?to make a point?" Probably so. And you'd have to have recently emerged from a coma to not know which way it would go.

If I Were President?Addressing the Democratic Deficit "Now, finally, the Bush administration is rightly working with allies in the region?acting multilaterally?to pressure Pyongyang. It?s gotten off the merry-go-round; the question is why one would ever want to be so driven by unilateralist dogma to get on in the first place." This is Kerry's "Foreign Policy" before he had a chance to change his mind 15 times.

The Best Page In The Universe.Crude but funny.

The Globe and Mail: "The check sheets would be the governments' first response to the accord. Under the $41-billion, 10-year agreement, the federal and provincial governments made a commitment to take steps leading to 'meaningful reductions' in waiting times by March 31, 2007, in areas such as cancer, heart, diagnostic imaging, joint replacements and sight restoration. Benchmarks for medically acceptable waiting times are to be in place by Dec. 31, 2005."

Walter E. Williams: Free health care: " Let's start out by not quibbling with America's socialists' false claim that health-care service is a human right that people should have regardless of whether they can pay for it or not and that it should be free. Before we buy into this socialist agenda, we might check out just what happens when health-care services are 'free.' Let's look at our neighbor to the north -- Canada."

Dynamist Blog: Domestic President: "The contrast between Bush's dynamic analysis of the health care system and the static assumptions of John Kerry's plan was particularly striking. (Then, of course, Bush blew it by bragging about the prescription drug benefit.)"

Intel faces performance struggle for two hard years

The New York Times > Technology News > Circuits Maybe mainstream publications like NYT are starting to take up the slack for the more and more lame coverage from former tech giant CNet. Assuming they don't start making things up about new gadgets that is.

ABC News: What Happened in Kerry's Vietnam Battles? ABC News makes the issue clear as mud.

CPD: 2004 Debate Transcript: Kerry practically admits that he married for money: "KERRY: Well, I guess the president and you and I are three examples of lucky people who married up. And some would say maybe me more so than others."

ABC News: Noted Now: The Latest Breaking Political News WHAT KERRY SAID: "And I think if you were to talk to Dick Cheney's daughter, who is a lesbian, she would tell you that she's being who she was, she's being who she was born as." KERRY CAMPAIGN: Senior Kerry aide acknowledges "it was not his best moment," but calls charges that it was inappropriate "ridiculous? The woman is in her thirties. She's public about her sexuality. It was brought up in the last debate. So, what the hell?" What the hell indeed.

CBC News: Waistlines expand in China: survey Chinese buy into french fries. Yum.

Tennessee Democrats Compare Republicans To Special Olympics Children Democrats pander to assholes too!

My Way News: "Pentagon officials highlighted the success of networked forces during the Iraq war, including the case of a U.S. radar plane detecting Iraqi troops during a blinding sandstorm and ordering in bombers using satellite-guided bombs. But the report found that ground forces had serious problems getting access to vital intelligence and surveillance data. In three cases, U.S. vehicles were attacked when they stopped to receive data on enemy positions, it said." Gives the term "Blue Screen of Death" new meaning eh Bill?

Sen. Dayton Temporarily Closing Office Wouldn't it be nice if ALL of congress decided to avoid DC. Congress would be safer, DC would be safer, and congressmen would get to know thier constituents again.

Justices won't weigh Net music lawsuit tactics | CNET News.com Good news!

Yahoo! News - Nobel laureate calls for steeper tax cuts in US

ICT - Terrorism & Counter-Terrorism

ABCNEWS POLITICAL DIRECTOR MEMO SPARKS CONTROVERSY: BOTH SIDES NOT 'EQUALLY ACCOUNTABLE'

KIROTV.com - News - Predictions For Mount St. Helens ChangeAnyone notice that they update the "Prediction" almost every day? Maybe a different word is in order.

Richard Bushnells 'Bowling For Truth' - The Distortions in BFC

elephantstusk.com | republican films

Saddam paid off French leaders - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - October 07, 2004: " The Iraqi Intelligence Service paid off French nationals by dispensing vouchers that allowed the holders to make hundreds of thousands of dollars in commissions by selling them to oil buyers. The payoffs help explain why the French government, along with Russia and China, opposed U.S. efforts in the United Nations in the months leading up to the March 2003 invasion, U.S. officials said. "

Yahoo! News - Kerry Disagrees With Wife on Bin Laden: "Kerry told reporters he disagreed with his wife's assessment that the possible U.S. capture of al-Qaida terrorist leader Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) before the Nov. 2 election could be politically motivated" I suppose he neglected to mention that his wife is a total airhead. Good move John. You will need that money if you lose the election.

FrontPage magazine.com :: The Shadow Party: Part I by David Horowitz and Richard Poe

THE CLASS STRUGGLE IS NOT OVER: "end justifies means".

Machiavelli: The end justifies the means: "Machiavelli"

FactCheck.org Kerry Ad Falsely Accuses Cheney on Halliburton

Cheney Gift Trust Agreement.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Yahoo! News - Indonesia President Megawati Admits Defeat: "Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had been waiting for Megawati to concede before claiming victory, respecting the decorum of Indonesia's fledgling democracy, despite his landslide victory in the Sept. 20 polls." Said Bambang: "I'm not only a MEMBER of the Funny Name Club, I'm now it's PRESIDENT as well". Bambang, and VP choice Tweety Bird Yahoombi will formerly take office next Tuesday.

A Giant Leap for Burt Rutan: "Burt Rutan isn't one to mince words. Just minutes after the world's first privately funded spacecraft touched down at the Mojave (Calif.) Airport on Oct. 4, Rutan, who created the machine, had this to say to the aerospace Establishment: 'The Boeings (BA ) and Lockheeds (LMT ) of the world probably thought we were a bunch of home builders. I think they're looking at each other right now and thinking, 'We're screwed!'"

7Online.com: Middle School Teacher In Trouble Over Presidential Photo?: "Shiba Pillai-Diaz, Teacher: 'There was no political intent, nor was there any political content in that photograph nor on the bulletin board.' School officials would not talk on camera but insist nobody here has been fired. To that, Ms. Pillai-Diaz asks what does it mean then when your boss asks you to hand over the keys and kicks you out of the building? She also says she is not sure if she'll be returning to school tomorrow."

UN resolution 687 - CAABUHandy Reference...

Online NewsHour: An Iraqi Threat? -- February 16, 1998Old New, for those with bad memories.

CNN.com - Text of U.N. resolution on Iraq - Nov. 8, 2002

CNN - Clinton: Iraq has abused its last chance - December 16, 1998

CNN.com - Nuke program parts unearthed in Baghdad back yard - Jun. 26, 2003: "David Kay, who led three U.N. arms inspection missions in Iraq in 1991-92 and now heads the CIA's search for unconventional weapons, started work two days ago in Baghdad. CNN spoke to him about the case over a secure teleconferencing line. 'It begins to tell us how huge our job is,' Kay said. 'Remember, his material was buried in a barrel behind his house in a rose garden."

ABCNEWS.com : Shuttle's Spring 2005 Launch Date Delayed I would bet that these are not going to fly again.

44 dead in attacks in northeast India

The "Rathergate" Incident: Remembering Why Separation of Press and State Is Vital - TechKnowledge Newsletter hmmmmmm, not sure about this.

New Zealand News - World - Deadly side-effect in vitamin boosters Once again Woody Allen is proven right.

CTV.ca | U.S. raid in Iraqi town of Samarra kills dozens: "Samarra is considered one of the top three rebel strongholds in Iraq, along with Fallujah and the Baghdad slum known as Sadr City. Officials have previously said they would recapture cities taken over by insurgents before nationwide elections take place at the end of January. However, it's unclear if the raid in Samarra is part of that campaign."

'Outlaw' city of Samarra raided by U.S., Iraqi troops Senior U.S. commanders had privately predicted that such operations would come in November or December because of chronic delays in training and equipping new Iraqi troops who would follow U.S. troops and assert civil order. But Dawoud offered Samarra as evidence of the government's determination to move sooner. "If this week we are not able to do three or four operations in the same time, probably next week or the week after or after a certain time you may see that we are going to engage many terrorist locations at the same time," Dawoud said at a news conference. "This is an indication that our forces are growing fast, well trained and in a very responsible way."

Nevada ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE MINUTES (Re: Amazon taxes) "[Mr. Misener, continued.] Here in the state of Nevada, we have one of our largest fulfillment centers in Fernley. It has 850,000 square feet of fulfillment space. Not far away is another one in Stead, which has roughly 400,000 square feet. These facilities employ 850 people year-round and another 1,000 or so during our peak season, which is the fourth quarter of the year. We are very proud of the facilities here as we are of our facilities elsewhere around the country. We have similar facilities in Kentucky, Kansas, North Dakota, and Delaware. We have closed facilities in Seattle and Georgia, largely because of their local business economic climates. We take this very seriously. We?re very much aware of business climates, including tax policies, of the states in which we?re resident and those affect our decisions, but not on a global scale. I won?t tell you that if an inimical tax were passed here in Nevada we would shutter our facility in Fernley. That?s not the case, certainly not within any reasonable period of time. However, as we grow and expand our facilities we have choices that face us almost weekly, and certainly monthly, about how we allocate our resources around the country. Those choices are affected dramatically by local legislative policies."

Seattle Weekly: News: Citizen Microsoft by Jeff Reifman: "Many of Microsoft's competitors are finding ways to benefit from the success of so-called open-source software. Open source is software no one person or company owns outright. It is essentially free, developed cooperatively over the Internet by programmers who openly share their improvements. They make money by helping businesses use the software. So instead of profiting by making an operating system or core applications, many businesses today, including IBM, Novell, and HP, profit by helping companies use open-source software they have enhanced. The Linux operating system is the most noteworthy example of open source. Microsoft has not embraced this emerging business model and has, in fact, waged an aggressive disinformation campaign against it. In a recent visit to Asia, Gates said, 'If you don't want to create jobs or intellectual property, then there is a tendency to develop open source,' according to Asia Computer Weekly. Gates knows that competitors are taking in billions of dollars in open-source-related revenue."

Worldometers Puts things into perspective doesn't it?

U.S. Cybersecurity Chief Abruptly Resigns "A department spokeswoman, Tasia Scolinos, praised Yoran as a valuable contributor. 'Cybersecurity will continue to be a priority of the Department of Homeland Security, and we plan to move quickly to fill the position with someone who has demonstrated leadership in this important field,' she said." Another Microsoft lackey perhaps?

Bill Gates says U.S. need not fear overseas tech Right... All our problems are right here in Redmond.

FOX 12 OREGON Mt. St. Helens erupts

Axis 2100 Network Camera 2.34 UCF Webcam of new ENGR building construction.

Technology News Article | Reuters.com Munich Set to Approve Linux Despite Patent Worries

Yahoo! Search blog

Google Should Be in the Browser Biz

StrangeCosmos.com

IBM's 'Marvel' to scour Net for video, audio | CNET News.com: "Researchers at Big Blue are attempting to create a search engine, code-named Marvel, that will retrieve video and/or audio clips that for the most part can't easily be retrieved today on the Internet." Yes Virginia, some companies still do REAL software research.

Argus Leader - TV pioneer: 'Terrible goofs made' at CBSs: "Besides, having done broadcasts with Gen. William Westmoreland during the Vietnam War, 'I think I'd have done anything not to be there,' Hewitt said. 'I mean, there wasn't a father in America that didn't try to get his kid out of going to Vietnam. Bill Clinton went to Oxford. I just can't get too exercised about anyone who tried to duck Vietnam.'"

Private Spacecraft Roars to Space and Back (National Geo) Lots of links on this though.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | SpaceShipOne blasts off on second journeyWOW!2

IOL: SpaceShipOne returns to space WOW!

SANS - Internet Storm Center -GDI Vulnerabilities: An open letter to Microsoft If it were a car manufacturer they would have been sued out of business by now. One can only hope.

Yahoo! News - Congress delivers 146-billion-dollar tax cut: "WASHINGTON (AFP) - Congress approved a 146-billion-dollar tax cut endorsed by both President George W. Bush (news - web sites) and his rival John Kerry (news - web sites) but criticized as a budget buster by some economists."

All PC notebooks are now the same "Those big three are Compal, Quanta and Wistron ? the three firms produce the vast majority of machines under the guise of original design manufacturers." I bet you never heard of them either. I wonder if Bill Gates has?

Inside the Beltway - The Washington Times: Inside the Beltway - September 24, 2004: "'We know we can't count on the French. We know we can't count on the Russians,' said Mr. Kerry. 'We know that Iraq is a danger to the United States, and we reserve the right to take pre-emptive action whenever we feel it's in our national interest.'"

Man who swore Bush into Air Guard speaks out

The New York Times > Washington > Campaign 2004 > Truth Be Told, the Vietnam Crossfire Hurts Kerry More

Remote Sensing Applications Center - USDA Forest Service

orkut Seems to be down. As the only thing I've been using it for is to compare notes on Gmail it won't be much missed. Maybe they are converting it to Linux. Not sure if its being slow as sh*t has to do witth the number of users or its Windows base.

Citizens United Interactive Media Center The Media War

DenverPost.com -License issuance still idled

DenverPost.com - Virus puts brakes on licensing for the week

DenverPost.com - Services take sick leave as bugs, viruses plague computers

After 374 days in orbit, astronaut advocates Spartan space program: "In addition to being commander of Exhibition 8, Foale is an astrophysicist and payload specialist. He said he is enthusiastic about President Bush's space exploration plans. Foale wants the station to become a base camp for moon exploration. Long term, he said, he hopes the moon becomes a base camp for exploration to Mars."

SomaFM: Listener Supported, Commercial Free Internet Radio

The Creamy Goodness Eclectic sounds.

Yahoo! News - House Could Vote on Spyware Bill Next Week

Techworld.com - Microsoft server crash nearly causes 800-plane pile-up Asswipe software strikes again.

Nader Blames Kerry for Ballot Access Fight "Nader called the Democrats 'gutless, spineless, clueless and hapless' and said their gamble that people would vote for anyone but Bush was misguided and would make them lose the election." When he's right, he's right!

ABCNEWS.com : CBS Producer on Thin Ice After Guard Story Will Rather let his producer (let's be honest, just an employee of his) take the fall for this? Ummm.... of course he will.

Gore campaign rejected allegations similar to CBS report, former campaign chief says: "Tony Coelho, who ran the campaign for several months in 2000, said he did not follow up on the claims because they were not serious enough to demand further attention." Apparently the bar has been lowered instead.

The Emmys Watch, or Not (washingtonpost.com) Oh, why not watch? It's no worse than watching your locally produced "Championship Wrestling" program. Except the latter is entertaining.

Newsday.com: As Rather goes, so goes network news Good. They can all go to hell.

GOOGLE PICKS GATES' BRAINS The broader concept Google is pursuing is similar to the "network computer" envisioned by Oracle chief Larry Ellison during a speech in 1995. The idea is that companies or consumers could buy a machine that costs only about $200, or less, but that has very little hard drive space and almost no software. Instead, users would access a network through a browser and access all their programs and data there. The concept floundered, but programmers note that Google could easily pick up the ball. Already, its Gmail free e-mail system gives users 100 megabytes of storage space on a remote network ? providing consumers a virtual hard drive. Make that 1000 Megs. And the Slashdot folks didn't question this concept. But, I think there are enough browsers already. Maybe Google will customize one of the existing ones. That $200 computer idea is right on target though. Finally, no more dumb users struggling with Windows to figure out what happened to all their files. Their online, being backed up by professionals now mam. No need to worry any more.

Yahoo! News - Ohio Imam Gets Two Months in Prison: "Jurors also were shown footage in which Damra called Jews 'the sons of monkeys and pigs' during a 1991 speech and said 'terrorism and terrorism alone is the path to liberation' in a 1989 speech." I bet these days he calls them "neocons".

Quick exit from Iraq is likely

Internet Week > Windows attacks > Windows Attacks Skyrocket, Bot Networks Breed Like Minks > September 20, 2004

Yahoo! News - THE INFLUENCE BEHIND W.

Forbes.com: Update 2: Enron Trial to Shine Light on Wall Street

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Reading Kerry's Mind

The New York Times > International > Asia Pacific > Hu Takes Full Power in China as He Gains Control of Military Hu's on first?

CBS defense of Rather hints at bigger story: "Of all the loopy statements made by Dan Rather in the 10 days since he decided to throw his career away, my favorite is this, from Dan's interview with the Washington Post on Thursday: ''If the documents are not what we were led to believe, I'd like to break that story.'' Hel-looooo? Earth to the Lost Planet of Ratheria: You can't ''break that story.'' A guy called ''Buckhead'' did that, on the Free Republic Web site a couple of hours after you and your money-no-object resources-a-go-go ''60 Minutes'' crew attempted to pass off four obvious Microsoft Word documents as authentic 1972 typewritten memos about Bush's skipping latrine duty in the Spanish-American War, or whatever it was."

Arms Control Association: Alternate point of view on Nunn Lugar Funding

Old computers good as new in Linux labs - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper

Analysis: Nuclear funding cuts and terror threats - (United Press International)

Ripped sign spurs national debate I say: Union Thug. The blogsphere, fast as it is, doesn't always produce a definitive answer.

OpenBrick Cool running Fanless, cheap (what's a Euro?). Use as home of departmental server.

Doctors prepared to do face transplant I think this is too late to hel Kerry though.

CNN.com - Coroner: 9 drugs found in Rick James' system - Sep 16, 2004

Google Search: category: Restaurants near OC MD

The New York Times > Washington > Price Comparison for Drugs Is Put on Federal Web Site I thought Bush was in their pocket... no?

TeleRead Update #6: Clinton's IP Czar Threatens Law Professor More on what's behind the curtain of a Kerry presidency.

Albino Blacksheep / Flash / Ping Pong (Matrix Ping Pong) (Japanese Ping Pong)

Albino Blacksheep / Flash / STFU HANDY LINK.

Yahoo! News - PC, Net Lead 75 Years Worth Of Innovations: "Not surprisingly, only 36 percent of the corporate bureaucrats polled said that corporate bureaucracy was stymieing innovation." We have seen stupid... and it are us.

Yahoo! News - Melinda Gates Joins Washington Post Board: "Gates, 39, holds a master's in business administration from Duke's Fuqua School of Business." Bleh. Once more merging entities of questionable value. Microsoft to it's customers: Fuqua! We own the media too.

Herald.com | 09/12/2004 | Low-carb leader will get my vote Finally, someone with the guts to speak the truth.

The Seattle Times: National politics: More challenges about whether Bush documents are authentic: "A CBS staffer stood by the story, suggesting Staudt could have continued to exert influence over Guard officials. But a former high-ranking Guard official disputed that, saying retirement would have left Staudt powerless." Talk about grasping at straws!

World Tribune.com--Muslim group takes responsibility for 9-11: 'We are so sorry'

Power Line: The sixty-first minute

INDC Journal: (UPDATED: "At Least" 90% Positive They're Fake)

Are the CBS National Guard Documents Fake?

PRESS RELEASE: New Report Analyses European Aid to Palestinians - Finds Evidence of Foul Play

The New Yorker: Fact:THE WILDERNESS CAMPAIGN More on Gore

OSS torpedoed: Royal Navy will run on Windows for Warships | The Register Ocean Blue Screen of death anyone?

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: The Deciding Voters: "Speaking to a couple of us at his birthday party the night before, the most trusted man in America made clear that his unequivocal embrace of Bush was not mere 'campaign oratory,' in Wendell Willkie's phrase. He was certain that his former rival had the gumption to see it through, and could not be certain that his Senate friend John Kerry had that necessary executive decisiveness."

Mailblocks Press Release: America Online, Inc. Announces Acquisition Of Mailblocks, Inc. Interesting Acquisition.

Yahoo! News - Problems Abound in Election System: "But in Ohio, election officials delayed deployment after a consultant found serious security flaws in the technology offered by four of the nation's top vendors. The study found that anyone with a security card and access to voting terminals made by Diebold Inc. could take control of the machines by typing a universal password of 1111. Security consultants hired by Maryland officials reported earlier this year that they were able to hack into that state's electronic voting systems to corrupt vote counts and delete election results. Maryland is sticking with the system, with officials saying they have tightened security procedures. Advocates of the electronic machines say security concerns must be weighed against statistics showing that the machines prevent voter mistakes that led to many ballots being canceled. Critics, however, point to places such as Raleigh, N.C., where 294 votes were lost in 2002 because of computer glitches. The critics' biggest concern is that the machines offer no independent record for a recount, meaning that it is impossible to detect whether there has been tampering".

My Way News: "'We are sure he is Izzat Ibrahim,' information official Ibrahim Janabi said. 'He was arrested in a clinic in Makhoul near Tikrit and Adwar (his hometown in northern Iraq) and 60 percent of the DNA test has finished.'" After all, how many red headed Iraqis can there be?

The New York Times > International > Europe > France Takes Reins of NATO Force in Kosovo at Trying Time: "Human rights organizations criticized NATO peacekeepers for failing to stem the violence, in many cases having remained in their compounds while rioting took place outside. The worst of the violence took place in the zone under French control."

Boston Globe Online: Print it! My guess is that this article will mysteriously disapear afterr the MP3 of the event starts to circulate.

Microsoft: Linux may mean price cuts, fewer sales | CNET News.com Oh, what a shame.

The New York Times > National > Designer of Confusing Ballot Loses in Palm Beach County: "The design provided fodder for political cartoonists and late-night comedians, and Mr. Gore ultimately lost Florida by 537 votes." Just a reminder about what even the New York Times thinks the results of the 2000 election were.

The Angry Economist

Contents of Reading About the World, Vol. 2

The Monetary Economics of Thurston Howell III I attempted this and got off to a poor start. Recomended reading.

www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish: "But the bottom line is that Kerry is a deeply weak candidate, and it took McCain and Giuliani, almost by simple contrast, to remind us why." For some, maybe. For many people, there was a deep sigh of relief when Kerry pulled ahead during the nomination process. I never thought of Kerry as a strong candidate and the only thing that has surprised me is the number of people who have been swayed even a little bit by his campain. But for those who chant "Anybody But Bush" the words have literal meaning. A warning for future primary voters: Take your blinders off during the primary season, and don't let your hatred for the other party (or candidate) make you sloppy in picking your own.

C-SPAN: WASHINGTON JOURNAL - Judith Colp Rubin & Barry Rubin, Co-Authors, "Hating America"

Apple - iMac G5 WOW!

Are the Browser Wars Back? - How Mozilla's Firefox trumps Internet Explorer. By Paul Boutin Odd source for this advice.

Remarks by Ron Silver as Prepared for Delivery at the 2004 Republican National Convention on Monday, August 30, Evening Session 7:45 - 11:15 P.M. EDT: "Even though I am a well-recognized liberal on many issues confronting our society today, I find it ironic that many human rights advocates and outspoken members of my own entertainment community are often on the front lines to protest repression, for which I applaud them but they are usually the first ones to oppose any use of force to take care of these horrors that they catalogue repeatedly. Under the unwavering leadership of President Bush, the cause of freedom and democracy is being advanced by the courageous men and women serving in our Armed Services. The President is doing exactly the right thing. That is why we need this President at this time"

Doug Engelbart 1968 Demo: "On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962."

SiliconValley.com | 08/30/2004 | Mulder, Scully assigned to Redmond-area Longhorn mutilation: "Longhorn's release date has been slipping almost since the day it was set, so Microsoft's announcement Friday that the operating system, which was originally expected in 2004, won't arrive at market until late 2006 is really no surprise."

WorldNetDaily: Sleeping with Kerry: "That institutional problem is that the media now trust the very people they are supposed to be watchdogging. In this case, the press may not be sleeping with the elephants, but they sure are sleeping with the donkeys."

Plot thickens after checking records: "B.G. Burkett, a Vietnam veteran himself, received the highest award the Army gives to a civilian, the Distinguished Civilian Service Award, for his book Stolen Valor. Burkett pored through thousands of military service records, uncovering phony claims of awards and fake claims of military service. 'I've run across several claims for Silver Stars with combat V's, but they were all in fake records,' he said. Burkett recently filed a complaint that led last month to the sentencing of Navy Capt. Roger D. Edwards to 115 days in the brig for falsification of his records."

QandO: Let's Judge Kerry by his Record, as requested.

Yahoo! News - Top Russian Official: Plane Terror Likely "MOSCOW - A top Russian official acknowledged Thursday what many citizens already suspected ? that terrorism was the most likely cause of two jetliners crashing minutes apart, a feeling reflected in a newspaper headline warning that 'Russia now has a Sept. 11.' " "A day after officials stressed there were many possibilities besides terrorism, presidential envoy Vladimir Yakovlev told Russia's ITAR-Tass news agency that the main theory 'all the same remains terrorism.' " Batchelor show tonight revealed that there had been large numbers of package explosions hushed up by Russian authorities.

IHT: Internet lets teen bullies inflict suffering from afar

Is Microsoft's Pipeline Officially Unblocked?: "We agree that Microsoft has some cool products in the pipeline. But the pipeline is so blocked up right now that it's unclear when any of them will be ready to flow into the commercial market. Got any ideas as to where Microsoft can find the silver-handled plunger that will get things running smoothly again?"

Gore gets speeding ticket while traveling in Oregon This seems really odd to me. But then, everything about Gore does.

BW Online | August 18, 2004 | Linus Torvalds' Benevolent Dictatorship: "Q: What makes you believe Linux will continue to gain momentum? A: I think, fundamentally, open source does tend to be more stable software. It's the right way to do things. I compare it to science vs. witchcraft. In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it -- but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it. Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding their secrets. You have to have everybody share in knowledge."

Circuit City Chooses Linux for Cash Registers in 600 Stores - Computerworld

Microsoft slammed over misleading Windows Linux claims: "An advert it ran compared the two operating systems to each other, but Windows was running on a measly dual 900MHz Xeon configuration, while Linux was running on a z900 IBM mainframe."

My Life As A Fischer

Roscoe Ellis: Online Journal

ABCNEWS.com - Kill Microsoft Word Why the Popular Word Processing Program Should Be Scrapped Commentary By John C. Dvorak PC Magazine A-friggin-men. Not only am I glad to see a luminary finally give MS the trashing it has long deserved, but the problems he mention have been in the product for at least 3 years. Now, if we can just get the Feds to stop using it, or at least stop requiring vendors to use it Word will die a nice quick (relatively) death.

U.S. Holds Virginia Man After Taping at Maryland Bridge

LinDVD DVD Multimedia Software Solution for Linux

Weird (but interesting) high bandwidth flash site.

Commentary Magazine - World War IV: How It Started, What It Means, and Why We Have to Win, Norman Podhoretz

LAMP is at the heart of Emergency Response Network Systems and is saving lives. "Few of us realize that the permanent government runs the country, and that's not necessarily our elected and appointed officials. Actually, one even might say that the permanent government doesn't do that work, at least sometimes not efficiently. The permanent government consists of the long-term civil servants who operate in fiefdoms. When someone gets the blame for the failure of a department, its usually an elected official whose inheritance is his or her agency. The Dallas FBI worked to put ERN into place. Here's a part of the permanent government that does work and works for the people. Now, they want to share this incredible software solution with the rest of the nation. Will they succeed?"