Michael Totten has posted an article on TCS detailing various reconsiderations of the war in light of the successful elections in Iraq. Including these gems:
The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart said something similar to Fareed Zakaria. “What if Bush, the president, ours, has been right about this all along? I feel like my world view […]
GQ has a great article detailing the growth of Google from a two-person startup to the current $50B valuation.
Larry Page and Sergey Brin are, in Silicon Valley terms, of a different generation than Andreessen, Yang, and Filo. Which is to say, they started their company four years later. By then the pair had determined they […]
I thought that Bush’s inaguaral speech was pretty damn good, despite glaring policy contradictions. Peter Beinart has posted a great article on how Liberals can develop a rhetoric of freedom that trumps Bush, not only in policy-coherence, but also in effectiveness.
But that’s exactly the point. Bush’s second inaugural doesn’t challenge liberals at the level […]
Here’s a great post on self-imrpovement, what ties the field together, and why it continues to attract converts.
My theory is that the secret code for most self-improvement systems–from Getting Things Done through Biofeedback and the Atkins diet–not hard to break; any idea that helps you to become more self-aware can usually help you to reach […]
Wikitravel
Novell has open sourced major portions of their NetMail server and started the Hula Project. Hula is a calendar and mail server which aims to provide full mail and calendaring capabilities. This looks like the ‘exchange replacement’ that the open source community has been waiting for. Novell is moving fast to fill in […]
Here’s an interesting story about a guy who at 35, with 2 small children, has managed to retire (hat tip: jc).
He’s exploiting the Canadian system, by relying heavily on the Child Tax Benefit, which surely wasn’t intended for able-bodied intelligent folk. Not to mention that he probably didn’t pay much tax in this country […]
Salon has posted an article on a subject that I was meaning to jot some thoughts on here. It’s about the phenomenon of tagging as seen at del.icio.us and flicker.com.
It’s a very simple concept, and 43 Things is a very simple site, but tagging as it is used here and at some of the […]
TNR has published an analysis of the recent Zawahiri tape.
But while Al Zawahiri is willing to make a nod to the Western left, he makes no similar overture toward reformers in the Arab world. On the question of whether Sunni Islamists of any shade should participate in Arab elections–be they in Gaza and the West […]
I’ve heard a bit about the work on people’s thoughts influencing random number generators in the 1970s, but it sounds like they’ve moved on to something bigger.
But the project threw up its greatest enigma on September 11, 2001.
As the world stood still and watched the horror of the terrorist attacks unfold across New York, something […]
Some companies see things as they are and say why. Google dreams things that never were and says why not.
Seriously, it is yet another mapping service, but play around with it and you’ll have to wonder whay the hell the people over at Mapquest have been doing for the last 8 years.
This was
too funny
to not post, even though I’ve been silent on so much major news lately.
The posting, on a Web site that frequently carried militants’ statements, included a photo of what that statement said was an American soldier, wearing desert fatigues and seated on a concrete floor with his hands tied behind his […]