This week, in another stunning victory in The War on Terror™, the United States of America hunted down and brought to justice Javed Iqbal — a 42 year old, Staten Island, Satellite installer. Mr. Iqbal’s crime against America was that he programmed client’s satellite receivers to pick up al Manar – the Lebanese television [...]
I am working on a number of open posts, but this annoyed me enough to open a quick window.
Harry Fuller, an editor at Cnet News, published an insipid editorial today regarding Stephen Colbert’s integration of television and online content. Originally I was not a fan of the Stephan Colbert Report, but the show has grown [...]
Two excellent essays out today:
Glen Greenwald examines the use of this week’s terrorist threat as a right-wing trop to justify this administration’s blatant violations of the FISA law. Greenwald is dead on in his analysis of the situation.
Bruce Schneier (of Applied Cryptography fame) published an excellent Op-Ed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Schneier states what [...]
I was going through and cleaning up some directories and e-mail this morning and ran across a smattering of things that have been annoying me. So here goes:
In general, it seems that if you are a large organization or have an ideology to push you need to have a mascot in order to explain yourselves [...]
I was listening to the BBC coverage of the foiled terrorist plot today at work, and I was struck by one American women’s reaction. The woman (whose name unfortunately I didn’t note) kept pushing her point that the problem was Muslims and their drive towards the “islamicization of the world”. I immediately began sensing that [...]
The BBC is reporting that MI5 and Scotland Yard have discovered a terrorist plot to blow up several transatlantic flights with liquid explosives. It’s always good to see government agency actually performing their jobs correctly.
It was the liquid explosives that caught my eye in the story. Wasn’t it liquid explosives that went missing from [...]
This morning I received an unusual spam e-mail from the company I purchase my gardening supplies from. The e-mail was not urging me to seed my lawn, but to spread a type of fertilizer; to wit, it was requesting that I contact CBS to complain about its promotion of homosexuality. I immediately responded to [...]
