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Another menace addressed: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, a longtime advocate of regime change in the Wonka Empire, is urging President Bush to consider military intervention should Wonka refuse to cooperate. “The world can no longer turn a blind eye to Wonka’s deception and misdirection,” Rumsfeld said. “Without full inspections, there’s …

Corporate P2P is the next big application according to Forbes: file sharing is a powerful technology, and its legitimate uses cannot be denied. The beauty of it is that it doesn’t require a central server. Users who want a file search among other “peers,” scanning all the computers on a …

Benevolent media despot – and Blogcritic – Oliver Willis has relaunched his blog magazine American Times. Contributions are now self-selected by pinging from Movable Type. Instructions and whatnot here – go O!!

Glenn Reynolds has a roundup – amongst his voluminous Columbia coverage – of those in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East who claim the disaster was a message from Allah. UFO author Der Voron believes it might have been a message from aliens: Let us analyze the facts: 1) …

No terrorism is needed when our own scientists make calculated risks that others are forced to take.

While I am not a crazy-go-nuts fan of the Indigo Girls, I sure am wild about Indigo Girl Amy Ray’s Daemon Records label. Her not-for-profit concern is as diverse as it is packed with quality. Ray’s own punk, indie-noise CD Stag is an eye-opener, and I also particularly enjoy the …

mi2g reports: Seven hours after the Columbia shuttle tragedy a hacking group struck down nine servers belonging to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). The digital attacks were recorded around 22:15 GMT and carried on in succession until 23:54 GMT. All nine JPL.NASA.GOV servers were running on the Sun Solaris operating …

Great popularizer of Latin jazz and polyrhythms was 85: He was best known for his 1963 recording of Herbie Hancock’s song “Watermelon Man,” which became his first Top 10 hit. In 1959, Santamaria penned “Afro Blue,” which quickly became a jazz standard covered by stars such as Count Basie and …

Columbia coverage and the national mood - sadder but wiser.

The Michael Jackson documentary that ABC paid big bucks for and is airing on the 7th, debuts tonight on the British ITV: The ITV program is the result of the unprecedented access Jackson granted Bashir, famed for a historic interview with the late Princess Diana in which she confessed to …