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In a move surely designed to frustrate the incorrigible biases of some of its readers. Two stories deliver a strange juxtaposition over the BBC News website.
One story speaks of the triumph of law over political expendiency. The Supreme court of Israel lifted a ban on a film about the “Jenin Massacre”. Rightly, [...]

Its everything we can deam of and more.
Its the future, the present, the only next logical step.
That’s right four blades.

It appears that Saudi Arabia is running out of sand. Yes, sand.
Arab News reports that massive construction in marshy Bahrain and the reconstruction of Iraq are pushing Suadi Arabia’s sand resources to the limit. So much is this a problem that the Saudi government has severly restricted sand exports.
How could this be you [...]

Patrick Belton points out an important new book by Professor of Latin American and Latino Culture Ilan Stavans of Amherst.
Dr. Stavans is quite taken with one of my favorite quasi-languages, Spanglish. I have not read, nor have I even seen the book. Apparently it is mostly a Spanglish dictionary.
The book [...]

There has been a big hubub over this opinion poll ranking European’s views on which countries they consider the “biggest threat to world peace”.
The poll touched off all sorts of controversy because Israel was ranked first, followed by the United States and various autocracies like Iran and North Korea. Putting aside serious [...]

I know I declared a moratorium on posts about, on or in any way concerned with Howard Dean, but this is too important.
In an email to his multitudinous supporters Dr. Dean asks us to decide a momentus issue facing the campaign.
The question at hand: Should the Dean campaign forego public funding so as [...]

I added some picture gallery software to the site.
Use the link up top to see all my India, Summer 2003 pictures goodness.
Horn Ok Please!

It looks like Air India is adding more flights to America.
The best part of the quote is “and San Francisco”:
The national flagship carrier has decided to double the number of flights to the USA from 4 December this year. As compared to 10 weekly flights to the USA last year, it will now offer 20 [...]

SFGate.com has an interesting article about Will Wright, founder of Maxis and creator of SimCity.
I’ve always loved the Sim Series. My bro made cities of our names for my sis, him and I way back when. Each letter was made up of a different structure, commercial, residential, industrial, fire station, etc..
He printed it out [...]

An article from Slashdot.org speaks of the new wonder plant, Tomacco.
Details are fairly sparse, but it appears that some dude grafted a Tobacco and a Tomato plant together. They have found tobacco in the leaves, but haven’t yet been able to test the fruit.
Can an escalator to nowhere be close at hand? We [...]