Zarqawi probably killed! according to Iraq the Model. > “According to these two sources, Iraqi and US military forces in Mosul think that Zarqawi, al-Qaeda leader in Iraq was possibly killed in a raid on a house where members ...
According to Dilbert (or is it Scott Adams) we are approaching the whole question of torture in the wrong way: > “The objective is to think up a form of torture that’s effective but doesn’t sound so bad when the rest of...
Did you know that Curacao is the 7th favorite place that travelers from Boston consider when they are looking for nude beaches in the Caribean? Miami is the first, Aruba the second. This important bulletin brought to you by Kayak Buzz, a ...
Glad to see that Ray is blogging again. Now that he is at Microsoft running the big new initiative this should be a really interesting one to follow! > “A couple of weeks ago, Bill and I brought life to a new initiative that, over the course of the months...
I came across this a little while ago in Wired about War Blogs. Pretty amazing stuff: > “Strong opinions throughout the military ranks in and out of wartime are nothing new. But online technology in the combat zone has suddenly given those o...
I’ve read several accounts relating to Microsoft’s recently ‘leaked’ documents about the new strategy, for example, Cringely says: > “While ostensibly written solely for internal discussion, the documents from Bill Gates and new Microsoft CT...
So can you learn anything useful from a blog? I’ve often spoken admiringly to friends about Microsoft blogging. I’ve said that, it’s not so much that people are giving away any trade secrets. You learn stuff that are not secret, but you probably would only fin...
This one has made the rounds, but in case you haven’t seen it yet. Whether or not you are expecting a baby, have a child, or just love cool visualizations, you’ve gotta check out “The Baby Name Wizard’s NameVoyager“. Incredibly cool! Technorati Tags: babyboomers
“The sword passes within millimetres of the heart, aorta, and other vitals but, surprisingly, few deaths related to sword swallowing have been described. A Canadian sword swallower did die, but that was after swallowing an umbrella.” (fromBMJ.com, the General Medical Journal, online, via MetaFilter.) You do learn the darndest things on the web, don’t you? Technorati Tags: funny
I assume you know about Wikis and the Wikipedia. If not, click on the links to the left and you’ll both find out and experience it, in one fell swoop. On [BlogBridge](http://www.blogbridge.co...
From How Stuff Works: > “There is no question that the last few years of world history have seen a fair share of chaos and disorder. With so much global unrest, governments worldwide are struggling to devise new methods to maintain order. The Galactic Empire’s s...
I really like this idea that Dave Winer has put forward: “Let’s make the Google API an open standard”, where he says, among other things: > “We’ve asked for a plug-in architecture for search engines, and if we can’t have that, a solid easy-to-program API is a **...
I just came across Dave Winer’s new, beta, OPML Validator, which is a welcome development. While there is an OPML spec, having a validator too is a great, pragmatic, concrete way to give a big thum...
Here’s another cute one I came across, at BlogOn 2005: “Trojan Mouse Strategy” – when you try to develop grass roots adoption of your software, bypassing IT. Technorati Tags: meme
Inquisitor is a really cool program that augments the search box in Safari (which for you heathens out there is the default Mac OS X web browser.) It’s kind of hard to explain just what it does – it’s kind of a magical word completion thingie that guesse...