— Reiter’s Wireless Data Web Log reports on the Big Story du jour: The New York Times today reports that a group of large telecommunications and computing companies is discussing the possibilities of creating a nationwide 802.11 network. The group includes Intel, IBM, AT&T Wireless, Verizon It won’t be long until essentially all laptops will … Continue reading “Nationwide WiFi”
— Salon.com Politics | Bush resumes power after colonoscopy Bush transferred the powers of the presidency at 7:09 a.m. EDT, Fleischer said. Anesthesia was administered and the procedure was completed at 7:29 a.m. Fleischer said “the president awoke”at 7:31 a.m. At 9:24 a.m., he resumed powers. It’s not clear if The President has been informed … Continue reading “Anal probe complete”
— According to the World’s Smallest Political Quiz, I’m a centrist leaning slightly more to the left than the right. The quiz was put together by a libertarian organization, of course, one that wants you to base your politics on Hollywood values. Scientology uses an ersatz IQ test to aid in recruiting fresh meat, too; … Continue reading “Libertarian quiz”
— Doc Searls, the Linux dude, reports that Scripting News is taking dead aim on Glenn Harlan Roberts, who’s apparently been pounding his chest again about traffic: Someday Glenn Reynolds will be shocked to find out that he’s not the darling of the bigpubs anymore, then someone else will be blustering how they made him … Continue reading “Cross-over blogging”
— Salon.com takes a look at Media Whores Online: Rabid watchdog While attacking what it sees as a vast, right-wing media conspiracy, an anonymous Web site has led to a growing media mystery: Who is behind Media Whores Online? Yes, that right wing bias in the media’s everywhere, isn’t it? According to the easter bunny, … Continue reading “In the same vein”
— Reptile sounds interesting: Reptile is a P2P (peer to peer) application designed to locate and filter the best news on the Internet. Reptile provides a distributed and decentralized mechanism to search, cache, subscribe, and publish news and other content. Reptile also provides an infrastructure for increasing information diversification and reducing censorship and bias. And … Continue reading “Reptile”
— The Times of India speculates that Abdul Lone was killed by militant Pakistani separatists because he was a force for peaceful resolution of the Kashmir question: Hurriyat leader Abdul Ghani Lone’s killing has been timed with the Prime Minister’s visit to the state. Lone was seen as one of the Hurriyat leaders closest to … Continue reading “Assassinated moderate leader Lone”
— David Brock claims that he went to UC Berkeley as a liberal, and had a conversion experience while writing a story on Jean Kirkpatrick’s 1983 speech there. The way Brock tells the tale, he was so appalled by the way Kirkpatrick was treated that he rejected his liberal values and went over to the … Continue reading “Fact-checking David Brock”
— Now that Mickey Kaus’ Kausfiles blog has moved to Slate, his traffic will go up and he’ll be linked by more sites, increasing his relevance in the Blogosphere from 247,000th (kausfiles.com’s Alexa ranking) to 2,845th (Slate’s Alexa ranking). This puts him ahead of the leading blogs, NRO (11,066), Arts & Letters Daily (18,337), Sullivan … Continue reading “Is Instapundit over?”
— Alexa, the Amazon/Google service that tracks your web surfing and builds a soft web of suggestions, decided I would like this Reason magazine — F.A. Hayek Interview. She was right. From the 1920s until the ’40s, Hayek and his countryman Ludwig von Mises argued that socialism was bound to fail as an economic system … Continue reading “Hayek interview”
