Excellent analysis of why Clinton and Albright got us involved in Kosovo to begin with. I was going to write an opinion about this, but this article pretty much sums up my opinion of the whole deal.
Coming from the anti-war, peacenik side of American politics, neither Maddy nor Bill had much experience in war-making. A […]
The more things change. . . Otis Pike offers some interesting similarities (and some humorous ones) between 1999 and 1929: [defunct strib URL -ed.]
The paper had plenty of lively local news. The society page photographs showed skirts, before 70 years of big ups and downs, almost exactly where they are today.
Meta: One of the harder things about running a weblog is generating all the HTML, links, and text formatting by hand. It would be nice to use a scripting environment like Frontier, but Frontier is available only for Windows and Mac systems, and I’m a Linux weenie. So I’m going to take some time to […]
A year later, and the blog finally has a name. Note how I’m still complaining about how much of a pain it is to do all of the weblog stuff by hand.
Unfortunately, web.archive.org appears to be missing all of my posts from March-June, 1999. Possibly others. Someday I may find […]
Control systems engineer invents a bus sized vehicle that fixes roads while driving over them: http://www.newswise.com/articles/POTHOLE.SNL.html
About the size of a Greyhound bus, the vehicle would “see” the road surface from scanners on the front bumper. Any anomalies would be cleaned with high-pressure air and then vacuumed. On-board image processing would distinguish the location and size […]
New study finds that everyone is governed by 15 fundamental desires: http://www.newswise.com/articles/GOALS.OSU.html
“Nearly everything important a human being wants can be reduced to one or more of these 15 core desires, most of which have a genetic basis,” said Steven Reiss, co-author of the study and a professor of psychology and psychiatry at Ohio State University.
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FINALLY! After seeing this chart [defunct link -ed.] in my recent issue of New Media magazine, I have been looking for it on their web page. It’s a big chart (over 400k!) of the 500 top companies and how they all invest in each other. I guess if you want more information you can check […]
A new (gnu) search engine from the “Everything should be free” community, like Yahoo with volunteers: http://www.gnuhoo.com/
As the web grows, automated search engines and directories with small editorial staffs will be unable to cope with the volume of sites.
Project GnuHoo’s goal is to produce the most comprehensive directory of the web, […]
Is France starting to lose it’s national identity? http://www.nando.net/newsroom/ntn/world/061398/world7_1951_noframes.html
And where do liberty, fraternity, and equality fit in with urban violence, disaffected youth, joblessness, homelessness, collapsing authority, political scandal, police brutality, racism and xenophobia?
The Front, a France-first party which blames society’s worst ills on North African immigrants and globalization, scares many people. […]
Research on back pain uses mice to test theories on disc degeneration: [Messy URL]
The researchers attached a device that exerted varying degrees of pressure on the discs in each mouse’s tail. They found that chronic compression triggered an array of changes in both the structure and biological activity of the discs.
(I wonder about how well […]
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