Brian Gongol
(2006.02.07)
Iowa Senators Want Borlaug to Get Congressional Gold Medal
(2006.02.07)
PC in a Whiskey Bottle
(2006.02.07)
Former Communist States Rapidly Catching Up to Western Economic Standards
But the World Bank is worried that some countries (like Poland) are getting way ahead of others (like Serbia)
(2006.02.07)
Google Planning an Alternate Internet?
They're buying lots of dark fiber -- leftover broadband cables that no one's using -- and doing some things (like integrating Gmail and Google Talk) that make people wonder whether they're trying to create a quasi-Internet of their own
(2006.02.07)
Dozens of New Plants, Animals Discovered in New Guinea
(2006.02.07)
Abu Hamza Gets Seven Years in Prison
Convicted in Britain; still wanted in the United States for trying to set up a terrorist training camp in Oregon
(2006.02.07)
President's Budget Shows No Real Signs of Cutting Spending
(2006.02.07)
Comparing Patch Speeds: Mozilla vs. Microsoft
(2006.02.07)
Verizon Says Google Gets a "Free Ride" on the Internet
Since Google builds content using network lines, Verizon thinks it's entitled to charge Google for the use. Could turn out to be a very big fight.
(2006.02.07)
LAPD to Use GPS to Improve Police Chases
Certainly a less-invasive use of GPS than the Washington state plan to use GPS to tax road use
(2006.02.07)
Life Behind China's "Great Firewall" of the Internet
(2006.02.07)
"I Have Lost Track of Who is Attacking What"
"If Blair abolished parliament and declared himself Lord Protector I would be irritated, certainly; but irritated enough to haul myself out of my armchair and wage jihad?"
(2006.02.07)
Iran to Host Holocaust Cartoon Contest
Though it's offensive, it's better than burning embassies and rampaging through neighborhoods.
(2006.02.07)
Canada to Open 4.4 Million-Acre National Park
Twice the size of Yellowstone
(2006.02.07)
Cuba Hosts "International Meeting of Economists"
A meeting of economists in Cuba is like a meeting of evolutionary biologists at Oral Roberts University