Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Wednesday, March 31, 2004

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Iraq on the Record: The Bush Administration's Public Statements on Iraq: "237 misleading statements about the threat posed by Iraq that were made by President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary Rumsfeld, Secretary Powell, and National Security Advisor Rice. These statements were made in 125 separate appearances, consisting of 40 speeches, 26 press conferences and briefings, 53 interviews, 4 written statements, and 2 congressional testimonies. Most of the statements in the database were misleading because they expressed certainty where none existed or failed to acknowledge the doubts of intelligence officials. Ten of the statements were simply false." [via Curiouser and curiouser!]


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Xgrid: High Performance Computing for the Rest of Us: "Getting Started with Xgrid [...] Step one is to download Xgrid and install it on a single machine. Step two is to install Xgrid on other machines and configure them to be available for grid calculations. There is no step three. Xgrid is designed to take care of most of the details of distributing your calculation so that you can concentrate on the problem you are trying to solve."