Arriving Somewhere

I stumbled upon a political quiz that is designed to help you identify which of the 2008 presidential candidates is closest to your own ideology. I haven’t been following the race very closely as of late except to notice how often Clinton and Obama bang heads. Even so, there are only a couple [...]

In May Estonia experienced what might be considered the first case of state-sponsored cyber warfare. It began with the Estonian government’s decision to remove a World War II-era monument to a Soviet soldier from a park, sparking riots by ethnic Russians within Estonia as well as an official protest by the Russian government. [...]

Want to help mankind get to Mars? Volunteer for a 520-day psychological experiment.

An interesting post-mortem of the Russian cyber attack on Estonia this past month. In Estonia, what may be the first war in cyberspace

Sure, he owes one quarter of a million dollars in taxes and tested positive for marijauna and cocaine but he’s Marion Barry… so, he can get away with anything!
Barry Sentenced to Three Years of Probation
Barry was supposed to be sentenced last month, but that hearing was postponed because he had not filed paperwork with the [...]

Wikipedia has banned the IPs of the staffers who have been politically motivated in their editing of Wikipedia articles. They are also considering further punishment of House and Senate IPs… from the discussion on Wikipedia:
This RFC is being opened in order to further a centralized discussion concerning actions to be taken against US [...]

It looks as though congressional staffers have been busy at Wikipeida.org. According to an article that appeared in the Lowell Sun they have been inserting insults into rival Congressmens’ bios and removing anything negative from their bosses’ - amounting to 1,000 changes in the past six months.
Not a good use of taxpayer’s money.
Rewriting history [...]

Google recently launched google.cn a Google search site for China. In doing so they complied to the demands of the Chinese government to censor certain search results. Many have criticised them for doing this so Andrew McLaughlin, a senior policy counsel for Google has responded on their blog with their reasons for doing [...]

Orson Scott Card writes a plain, common sense defense of the United State’s continued involvement in Iraq. He covers all the points, and makes so much sense that I have to wonder about why my own support had been wavering. This write up is fabulous. I would share some snippets here, but [...]

New Report: “Beslan: Russia’s 9/11?”
Report by John Dunlop Chronicles Hostage Crisis, Russian Coverup
For Immediate Release
Contact: Glen E. Howard, +1 202.364.2466
Washington, DC — The Jamestown Foundation and the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC) today published a major investigative report concerning the September 2004 terrorist attacks in Beslan, Russia. Authored by Stanford University expest and [...]