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Although I am pro-war at this point, it’s not as though I am dancing in the tulips about it. One of the most heartening things about President Bush’s State of the Union speech was his honest admission that war always brings sorrow, destruction and unintended consequences – although I can’t …

Another menace addressed: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a longtime advocate of regime change in the Wonka Empire, is urging President Bush to consider military intervention should Wonka refuse to cooperate. “The world can no longer turn a blind eye to Wonka’s deception and misdirection,” Rumsfeld said. “Without full inspections, there’s …

Corporate P2P is the next big application according to Forbes: file sharing is a powerful technology, and its legitimate uses cannot be denied. The beauty of it is that it doesn’t require a central server. Users who want a file search among other “peers,” scanning all the computers on a …

Benevolent media despot – and Blogcritic – Oliver Willis has relaunched his blog magazine American Times. Contributions are now self-selected by pinging from Movable Type. Instructions and whatnot here – go O!!

Glenn Reynolds has a roundup – amongst his voluminous Columbia coverage – of those in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East who claim the disaster was a message from Allah. UFO author Der Voron believes it might have been a message from aliens: Let us analyze the facts: 1) …

No terrorism is needed when our own scientists make calculated risks that others are forced to take.

While I am not a crazy-go-nuts fan of the Indigo Girls, I sure am wild about Indigo Girl Amy Ray’s Daemon Records label. Her not-for-profit concern is as diverse as it is packed with quality. Ray’s own punk, indie-noise CD Stag is an eye-opener, and I also particularly enjoy the …

mi2g reports: Seven hours after the Columbia shuttle tragedy a hacking group struck down nine servers belonging to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The digital attacks were recorded around 22:15 GMT and carried on in succession until 23:54 GMT. All nine JPL.NASA.GOV servers were running on the Sun Solaris operating …

Great popularizer of Latin jazz and polyrhythms was 85: He was best known for his 1963 recording of Herbie Hancock’s song “Watermelon Man,” which became his first Top 10 hit. In 1959, Santamaria penned “Afro Blue,” which quickly became a jazz standard covered by stars such as Count Basie and …

Columbia coverage and the national mood - sadder but wiser.