Tuesday, January 31, 2006

The New York Times finds a spine?

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It won't last, but today the shrunken residue of a once great newspaper shows a tiny hint of a vertebral column: Spies, Lies and Wiretap...

Idiot America

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David Brin led on this one, but Pharyngula is taking up the flag: Idiot America . I don't think it's just America, though we've ...

A creek in the congo: Future Shock

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Sometimes I think the world isn't changing very quickly. Mostly 2006 seems much more like 1986 than I'd expected back then. But then...
Monday, January 30, 2006

DeLong on Franco

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Odd that we should be thinking of Francesco Franco these days. DeLong ends a posting on Spain's tyrant with a guide to spotting fascism:...

Newsweek has the scoop on the NSA

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This Newsweek article is Pulitzer prize winning material. The fact that so many insiders were willing to talk, albeit off the record, tells ...

Why would a virus fatten an animal?

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We know parasites such as toxoplasma change the behavior of their hosts [1]. That seems to make nice evolutionary sense. But why would a...

Newsweek: the price of questioning Dick Cheney

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One of the most fascinating and important stories to be reported in the last several months. This should be read closely. Palace Revolt - Ne...

The Google Ghost in my Machine - a disconcerting moment

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I had a disconcerting moment today. I typed a few characters in my Google Toolbar and saw a list of strings to select from. They were search...
Sunday, January 29, 2006

Why the Farangs smell

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About 25 years ago I used to commute by bus from Pradu-Naam to the UN building in Bangkok. The bus was crowded and bloody hot. I had to put ...
Saturday, January 28, 2006

Fox news: in the pay of Philip Morris

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DeLong echoes another corruption story - Fox News' science reporter was on the take from Philip Morris . His primary contribution was mo...

Medicare Part D, Chimps and Bonobos

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A prediction -- when the analysis is done the Bush drug plan (Medicare Part D) will be found to be largely a transfer of resources from the ...

Can primates trust strangers?

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Chimpanzees are generally hateful, and almost all primates are fundamentally xenophobic. Brain scans suggest humans (genus Pan) are programm...
Friday, January 27, 2006

Scary moment in the digital life: a corrupted image

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I recently used iPhoto Library Manager to merge two iPhoto 5 libraries of several thousand images apiece. I did this in preparation for mig...

The NSA affair: it's about how they selected their intercepts

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Cringely's sources say pretty much exactly what I guessed last week (in part from his prior column, but also from connecting other dot...

Challenger: 20 years

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Twenty years ago seven amazing people died when the space shuttle Challenger "exploded" (it didn't). James Oberg was a senior ...