A company called “Blue Security”:http://www.bluesecurity.com/ has an intriguing new anti spam concept. It’s intended to provide active spam prevention rather than the passive blocking schemes I’ve usually seen. The idea is that they use their large (400k+) user base to identify spam and issue complaints to the originating sites, with their software automating the process.… Read More New anti-spam tool
If there’s one thing radical Muslim terrorists like Zarqawi seem to crave it’s to be taken seriously, so any time one of these guys is mentioned in the media as a dangerous terrorist it actually has the effect of increasing their status among their potential recruiting base and a certain segment of their Arab peers.… Read More Laughter is the best medicine, err, weapon
Still at the airport . . . but I came across another great article related to “my post”::http://themoodysideoflife.com/component/option,com_jd-wp/Itemid,36/p,48/ from the other day. David Cloud, although just a high school economics teacher (in Pendleton, Indiana–only about 20 mi. from my hometown) writes as clearly and persuasively on the topic as anyone I’ve seen. Check it out… Read More More on the “gas crisis”
Right now I’m sitting in the Las Vegas airport waiting to board my flight back to SC. The trip to Utah was great and Elisabeth and I had a great time together and got quite a few of the wedding planning details figured out while I was there. I just came across “This”:http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=email_us&refer=columnist_ferguson&sid=adB63M27SYz4 excellent article… Read More Vast theocon conspiracy?
I’ve not posted much the last couple of days since I spent most of yesterday travelling to Utah to visit Elisabeth. I left Easley at 3:30am to catch my flight and finally arrived in St. George at 4:15pm. It made for a long day, but it’s been really good to be here already, and now… Read More My Trip
Glenn Reynolds “argues”:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12132529/#060410 (mostly tongue-in-cheek) that the quickest way to solve the illegal immigration problem is to just annex Mexico. His real point, though is that the long-term solution to the dilemma is to insist that our neighbor to the south adopt serious democratic and economic reforms; i.e. to become more American. He’s probably right.… Read More Annex Mexico?
Christopher Hitchens (one of the panel members in the Orwell post below) “debunks”:http://www.slate.com/id/2139609/ one of the most persistent myths remaining from the runup to war in Iraq. (via “Instapundit”:http://instapundit.com/archives/029633.php) The evidence *still* points to the fact that Saddam sought yellowcake from Niger. Of course, the world’s various intelligence services have been saying so all along,… Read More Sixteen words
I’m a little late to find out, but there’s some good economic news coming from “my home state”:http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_comment/swanson200603280801.asp for once. Based on what I’ve seen and read, Governor Mitch Daniels has far exceeded my expectations so far. I didn’t follow the 2004 Indiana governor’s race very closely since I’m not living in the state at… Read More Indiana on the Move
I just finished listening to “an intriguing discussion”:http://www.uncommonknowledge.org/800/802.html concerning how relevant “George Orwell”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell remains today. I don’t know a lot about the man other than familiarity with a couple of his most famous books, but the discussion was intriguing enough that I’m now planning to do some reading both about the man and of his… Read More Does Orwell Matter?
I just finished watching The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe on DVD which I got through my subscription to Blockbuster’s “online movie rental service”:http://www.blockbuster.com/. It’s a lot like Netflix, although I’ve tried both and actually like Blockbuster’s service a little better; but more on that later. I liked the movie… Read More The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
