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Patriot Act: You’re Soaking In It!

They sold it to you as a temporary measure to ease your fear of the elusive Bin Laden… now they’re asking you to swallow it forever. Yes, the Patriot Act is here to stay… …unless you stop it. -Ian.

Delta Air Lines Wins ‘Big Brother’ Award

Begin forwarded message: > From: Bill Scannell > Date: Wed Apr 9, 2003 8:56:10 AM US/Pacific > To: > Subject: Delta Air Lines Wins ‘Big Brother’ Award > > At a star-studded New York ceremony, CAPPS II collaborator Delta Air > Lines > has finally been...

Amazing Robots..

…From RoboDex 2003 in Yokohama.. http://www.i4u.com/article279.html The Japanese PC Watch Site has tons of cool new photos from robots featured at this years Robodex 2003 Trade-Show.

News Flash: War in Iraq Is About Oil?

Okay, I’ll admit to skimming this, however this might explain why EU resistance to this action in Iraq was so fierce.. and is yet another perspective on the overly-simplistic “War is about oil” mantra. -Ian. —-

Gersham, Ian, and Salim Launching geekmail.cc…

Hey folks; It’s my list so I might as well use it to promote my own endeavours. Gersham, Salim, and I are preparing to launch our new service, geekmail.cc. It’s a Service Provider-class email hosting service, focused on cool features like IMAP and...

Is Saddam in Syria?

Surprisingly, this beat has not yet been picked up in the mainstream press. Whether or not it’s true, this could serve to further indict Syria in the eyes of the world and provide justification for the toppling of the government there by the US-led Coalition. My...

Interviewing the Protesters…

Granted, I’m sure the smarter protesters were edited out, but still a thought worth propagating: http://brain-terminal.com/video/nyc-2003-02-15/ -Ian.

How Books Have Shaped Bush…

The New York Times April 5, 2003 How Books Have Shaped U.S. Policy By MICHIKO KAKUTANI President Bush has never been known as a bookworm. An instinctive politician who goes with his gut, he has usually left the heavy reading in the family to his wife, Laura, a former...

Fashion Outbreak…

Strangely, no one in California that I’ve talked to this week really seems to care about SARS. No surprise, since there have been few cases and even fewer deaths, and since travel in the US is so widespread there are few clusters of cases, thus no real outbreak...