18 entries filed this month:
In peacetime, it might be a tipping point, but my guess is that there is still abundant fear among the public which the spin doctors can and will tap into to help diffuse this new challenge to the Republican approach. (257 words) More …
Toronto â Education Minister Gerard Kennedy said Wednesday that he will move to ban junk food from vending machines in the province’s elementary schools because not all school boards are doing it voluntarily. (117 words) More …
Iraq Study Sees Rebels’ Attacks as Widespread
Over the past 30 days, more than 2,300 attacks by insurgents have been directed against civilians and military targets in Iraq, in a pattern that sprawls over nearly every major population center outside the Kurdish north, according to comprehensive data compiled by a private security company with access to military intelligence reports and its own network of Iraqi informants. NY Times More >
Worth a read:
Physicists and engineers at Beijing’s Tsinghua University have made the first great leap forward in a quarter century, building a new nuclear power facility that promises to be a better way to harness the atom: a pebble-bed reactor. A reactor small enough to be assembled from mass-produced parts and cheap enough for customers without billion-dollar bank accounts. A reactor whose safety is a matter of physics, not operator skill or reinforced concrete. And, for a bona fide fairy-tale ending, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is labeled hydrogen. Full article >
Of course they will (drop out). (224 words) More …
1,168,288 estimated downloads of Mozilla Firefox browser so far, the fastest adoption rate for a new browser, period. Spread the word.
Saw The Bourne Supremacy last night—Matt Damon is, almost surprisingly, quite excellent in the lead role. I read somewhere that Damon doesn’t quite fit the typical handsome leading man stereotype and thus fits the dark and troubled Jason Bourne role, and I have to agree.
Internet Movie Database gives a weighted average of 7.3 / 10; because I like this genre of film/book and it fits the type well, I’d give it a 9 overall and a 10 in comparison to its recent peers.
http://www.overseasvote2004.com/ – an online Overseas Voter Registration and absentee Ballot Request system. Deadlines for registration vary by state, with some deadlines as early as October 3, so get a move on…
This is not new information, apparently the vulnerability has been known since the early 1990’s, but the information then quickly disappeared from public view. (317 words) More …
Absolutely. We all have a big stake in how the world shapes up, and our biggest trading partner and dominant neighbour will always have a big impact on our lives here in Canada. (272 words) More …
Sure, they claim that their lack of enthusiasm for this first utilization of RSS in a mainstream browser is because its not apparent to them whether this first support is useful or not, as if that would truly damage the continued evolution of RSS / Atom / aggregators and all things XML and holy. (147 words) More …
You’ll want to read Defining Success, by Subroto Bagchi in its entirety.
The driver of the jeep was treated with respect due to any other member of my Father’s office. As small children, we were taught not to call him by his name. We had to use the suffix ‘dada’ whenever we were to refer to him in public or private. When I grew up to own a car and a driver by the name of Raju was appointed – I repeated the lesson to my two small daughters. They have, as a result, grown up to call Raju, ‘Raju Uncle’ – very different from many of their friends who refer to their family drivers as ‘my driver’. When I hear that term from a school- or college-going person, I cringe. To me, the lesson was significant â you treat small people with more respect than how you treat big people. It is more important to respect your subordinates than your superiors.
Just became aware of a drive to promote Firefox. 1,000,000 user download drive. Great idea, although www.spreadfirefox.com response is so slow it might well turn folks off. If you haven’t already been arm-twisted (or had a bad spyware experience with Internet Explorer and are already convinced) the link on the page side bar (look right) points to the main Mozilla.org download site and is much more responsive. Get your shiny new copy of version 1 Preview today…
We are thinking of you.
An authoritative Iraqi source says that as much as 90 percent of the actual amount of Iraq’s estimated 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) are going to U.S. Gulf coast refineries. (122 words) More …
In my opinion the film is overly dramatic, but perhaps it needs to be in order to get its message across. The fact backup noted is useful reading enough, devoid of theatrics. (125 words) More …
Or, switch to Firefox – its free, offers additional (and even useful) features, and I’ve not had a single popup since switching to Firefox (and its predecessors) well over a year ago. (115 words) More …