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News - I tied for first in last week's Detroit News "College Football Frenzy" contest: http://makeashorterlink.com/?B3E221342 Comment - And Brandon tied for sixth! That's out of 411 participants who try each week to pick the winners from a list of college football games. Since I tied for first with another person, I think there is a drawing to see which one of us gets this week's $50 gift certificate. I'm waiting for an e-mail to see if I get the loot. Overall, I'm 86 out of 938 after 10 weeks of the contest. My goal is to finish the season in the top 10% of the participants. News - Article in Washington Post says that hints point toward Iraq as source of last year's anthrax attacks: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28334-2002Oct27.html Comment - The article says the FBI focus on a single deranged individual is off base. A story I blogged a few weeks ago speculated that the anthrax attacks were a test run for a larger, more widespread attack sometime in the future. News - Here's a very good (but lengthy) article that analyzes President Bush's foreign affairs strategy: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/issue_novdec_2002/gaddis.html Comment - Here's a good summary: "Bush insists the ultimate goal of U.S. strategy must be to spread democracy everywhere. The United States must finish the job that Woodrow Wilson started. The world, quite literally, must be made safe for democracy, even those parts of it, like the Middle East, that have so far resisted that tendency. Terrorism--and by implication the authoritarianism that breeds it--must become as obsolete as slavery, piracy, or genocide: "behavior that no respectable government can condone or support and that all must oppose." There's also an excellent overview of why we are going after Iraq: "Iraq is the most feasible place where we can strike the next blow. If we can topple this tyrant, if we can repeat the Afghan Agincourt on the banks of the Euphrates, then we can accomplish a great deal. We can complete the task the Gulf War left unfinished. We can destroy whatever weapons of mass destruction Saddam Hussein may have accumulated since. We can end whatever support he's providing for terrorists elsewhere, notably those who act against Israel. We can liberate the Iraqi people. We can ensure an ample supply of inexpensive oil. We can set in motion a process that could undermine and ultimately remove reactionary regimes elsewhere in the Middle East, thereby eliminating the principal breeding ground for terrorism." News - from Brandon's bin bloggin, a site that lets you make up a speech by President Bush, then listen to the President read it: http://www.lemonbovril.co.uk/bushspeech/ Comment - Neat technology and a fun time-waster. News - Who says there's no technology innovation going on? This company invents a device to scroll a computer screen by tilting the device: http://www.infosync.no/news/2002/n/2488.html Comment - Designed for PDAs, it would eliminate having to scroll through a screen by pushing a button or tapping with a stylus. Click here to see current comments and add your own. 11:21:42 AM 
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