Google Should Be in the Browser Biz

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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.