Random comments on technology, politics and fnord
A leading critic of teaching evolution in a Pennsylvania school district denied on Thursday he wanted students to learn about biblical accounts of the origins of life.
William Buckingham, who headed the curriculum committee of Dover Area School Board, told federal court he had not meant to cite creationism as an alternative to evolution when interviewed […]
I’m still getting used to this whole blogging thing (again), and I can’t help observing how a subject or a story gets bounced around the blogoshere. A great example is the Forbes hit-piece on blogging as a concept: Attack of the Blogs. I first found this story through Dan Gillmore post on […]
“Millions of Iraqis believe that suicide attacks against British troops are justified, a secret military poll commissioned by senior officers has revealed.
The poll, undertaken for the Ministry of Defence and seen by The Sunday Telegraph, shows that up to 65 per cent of Iraqi citizens support attacks and fewer than one per cent think Allied […]
Discussion about Google Base — a possible eBay or Craiglist service from Google?
As everyone knows by now, Harriet Miers has withdrawn herself as a nominee to the Supreme Court. But that’s not what this message is about.
I have to work for a living. I don’t dig ditches, but it is stressful its own way. I have deadlines, I have reports to make. I’ve got a lot […]
Buried clause could tag films, TV shows as porn: “Tucked deep inside a massive bill designed to track sex offenders and prevent children from being victimized by sex crimes is language that could put many Hollywood movies in the same category as hard-core, X-rated films.
Currently, any filmed sexual activity requires an affidavit that lists the […]
Techdirt:The Price Of Anonymity Is That It Will Be Misused
I don’t have much more to add to what they’ve already said. Techdirt gets a lot of stuff right.
Bush Teleconference With Soldiers Staged: “It was billed as a conversation with U.S. troops, but the questions President Bush asked on a teleconference call Thursday were choreographed to match his goals for the war in Iraq and Saturday’s vote on a new Iraqi constitution.”
This is why I don’t believe anything that comes out of Washington […]
Study Says Software Makers Supply Tools to Censor Web - New York Times: “Microsoft, Cisco and Yahoo, for example, have all come under fire recently for providing technology or otherwise cooperating with the Chinese government to enable it to monitor and censor Internet use.”
I suppose technically these comanies are within thier rights to be sleazebags. […]
ZDNet’s David Berlid has an interesting analysis on the � The big picture behind Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL, Real, and Sun deal-o-mania where he draws connections between the recent string of announcements in tech industry: The Google/Sun partnership, the lauch of the video iPod, the interest in partnering with AOL, and the Real/Microsoft settlement. It […]
