About the situation in Israel and Palestine
I won’t quote it here out of context, but Rafe Coburn’s post a quick read that really resonates with me. Update: somehow I feel this article about artificial societies (found… Read more »
Category: politics
After the tragedy: a tale of two dot coms, and how they relate to WWI
See how Priceline and Webex compare: PCLN lost all of their partial recovery, while WEBX has been bouncing quite strongly. And did you notice people are now starting to make… Read more »
A new Marshall plan to uproot terrorism
For the last two days I’ve been thinking of a new Marshall plan, this time to help Central Asia out of the misery that fosters fanaticism. The original plan was… Read more »
Terrorism takes the web down (sort of)
By now I guess you all know about the plane crashes in the US. Most news sites such as MSNBC, ABC or even Liberation in France are down or near-down…. Read more »
Mother Jones Goes to Prison
Wired: "Called "Debt to Society," the Motherjones.com project uses interactive maps and graphs to assess what the United States’ obsession with locking people up has cost each state since 1980…. Read more »
Corporate Espionage: Defense Against the Dark Arts
Darwin Mag: "Fuld is openly contemptuous of investigators like Barry who routinely cross the ethical divide. "We can find the same information this guy says he finds, but we can… Read more »
Fake Internet-Enabled Democracy Watch: SpeakOut.com
SpeakOut.com, the place where you can make a difference “We take the traditional market research focus group and political polls and put them online while inviting you to tell politicians,… Read more »
Did Gore invent the Internet?
This article gave me an idea for a new blog but debunk.com is already registered. Oh, I do “wish there were product recalls for bad information.” Update from the 2010s:… Read more »