Brian Gongol

Fascinating Analysis of Al Qaeda's Seven-Step Program to Take Over the World
The summary should be required reading

Climate and Crop Growth

Senior Citizens Appoint Selves Chastity Police for Teenagers on Vacation
One can only hope their slogan is catchier in its native Korean than in English: "Lose your virginity in a moment's carelessness and immoderate merrymaking, regret it for the rest of your life."

Gaza Withdrawal Exposes Identity Problem: Are They Jews First, or Israelis First?

Warcraft Addicts Let Their Daughter Die While They Play Marathon Session of Computer Game

Japanese Prime Minister Apologizes for WWII

Samsung Introducing Affordable 20" Flat Panel Monitor

Canada's Much-Vaunted Publicly-Funded Health System Not So Publicly-Funded

For Money to Buy Happiness, You Need to Have Poor Friends
Study finds it's not actual wealth but relative wealth that boosts apparent happiness. But that only holds true (if it does at all) on a cross-sectional basis. Clearly we should be happier today than our ancestors, who lived in sod houses and tenements and lost children to tuberculosis and smallpox.

A Little Pavlov with Your E-Mail
Companies training their employees not to open phishing e-mails by sending them fake phishing attacks, then chastising them for entering secure data if they follow.

Computer Worm Sends News Organizations Back to Typewriter Days
Targeted Windows 2000. CNN, ABC, New York Times all hit.