Thursday, November 14, 2002

A Thoughtful and Penetrating Analysis of the Morality of War on Iraq. Would this be a "just war"?. The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' statement on Iraq. [Salon.com] 9:58:08 PM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

Good Commentary on Tablet PC. Exactly. Without great handwriting recognition, the utility of the Tablet PC promises to be limited and limiting. Tablet PC not quite the final word While the new tablet PC is very cool, it's still not the answer to pen-based computing. [Christian Science Monitor | Sci/Tech] 7:13:39 PM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

Who Knew? I Grew Up Near '8 Mile'. I was interested to read in this article that the hot new film definitely not aimed at my demographic was shot along 8 Mile Road in Detroit, on the border with Warren. I grew up in the 8 Mile-9 Mile Rd. area. What I remember most is that there were no minorities there in the 50's and early 60's at all. None. I went to a lily-white high school a couple of miles from downtown Detroit and the only blacks we saw were when we played other teams on the court or the field. Still, I think I'll skip the flick. Along Detroit's Eight Mile Road, a stark racial split Film based on white rapper tells a tale of two cities. [Christian Science Monitor | Top Stories] 3:16:22 PM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

Good Reminder from Aristotle Aristotle. "We are what we repeatedly do." [Motivational Quotes of the Day] I was reminded of a parallel quotation. "A working definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results." Don't remind me. 11:37:35 AM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

This is Scary Shit. It may already be too late, but pay attention to this, folks! Civil liberty is about to become an arcane concept in America. That's not hyperbole. William Safire's must-read column today reprises the reporting John Markoff did last week on the government's plans for a master database of personal information. You thought online marketers were bad? Admiral John Poindexter (of Iran-contra scandal fame) is spearheading a plan -- it's currently a part of the Homeland Security Act, which is seemingly on the verge of passage into law -- for "Total Information Awareness," a centralized federal spy database with dossiers on every U.S. citizen. It's significant that the outcry against this plan is hailing not just from the left but from civil-libertarian conservatives like Safire. [Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment] 11:33:57 AM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

$2 Billion Lighting Company Moves from Windows to Linux Servers. Red Hat wins over Windows convert. The Linux seller says its new customer will move from Microsoft Windows to its open-source software for database systems--a tougher proposition than a Unix-to-Linux switch. [CNET News.com] Good news for those of us interested in at least loosening M$ grip on the computing world. Of course, I'd feel a lot happier if they'd switched their users' desktops, but it's a start. 11:26:59 AM    Add your viewpoint [ comments so far]

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