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2.25.2005

  Free at Last? Democratic movements spread across the Arab World

Again...maybe those neocons had something there - Reason.

2.24.2005

  Our Godless Constitution

Skip the opening swipe at Bush and dig in you pagan swine - Brooke Allen.

  Battlestar Galactica Ep.1 can be viewed online - smart move.

  Whither The Wall Street Journal?

The Wall Street Journal is invisible online (except for Best of the Web) & people are turning to Forbes.com for busines news for Wired News.

2.22.2005

  Taliban Giving Up In Afghanistan?

We don't hear anything about Afghanistan anymore from the MSM.
Wonder why... Captain's Quarters.

  WW2 Iwo Jima flag raising - 60th anniversary

  Calvin and Hobbes

2.21.2005

  Exaggerated Science:

How Global Warming Research is Creating a Climate of Fear - SPIEGEL ONLINE

2.20.2005

  A Man-Wearable PC with an Artificial-Reality Helmet

US Military is making it happen: Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends.

  Inventions and Ideas from Science Fiction Books and Movies

2.19.2005

  The Top 100 Gadgets of All Time

I have used or been in the presence of a high percentage of these -
Mobile PC.

2.17.2005

  Fight Club = Calvin & Hobbes

Are Jack & Tyler actually Calvin & Hobbes grown up? - Metaphilm.

2.16.2005

  Cory Doctorow - "I, Robot"

  Worth it.

  NASA Researchers Claim Evidence of Present Life on Mars

  Original Fawlty Towers goes for 1.5m pounds

2.15.2005

  Inventor Kurzweil Aiming to Live Forever

Twenty years til immortality:RedNova News. So much for life insurance.

2.13.2005

  Panoramas of the moon landing photos

  Shuttle's Return to Space Is on the Horizon

2.10.2005

  Amazon's 43 secrets

At Salon.com Technology (sit through an ad) a short article about a site I looked at yesterday, 43 Things, and that it is owned by Amazon.com. Not ominous or anything, but clever.

  How the web works

If Salon is shocked that Amazon.com might be using the website, 43 Things, to gather consumer info, will they also be shocked that the Amazon link on my blog post is actually a link that goes through my Amazon partner-store and that if you bought something using it I would get a miniscule cut? For an "internet-savvy webzine" they don't seem to understand how the web work$.

2.8.2005

  Tobermory is under the weather

Word is that Tobermory of The Chronicles of Tobermory is under the weather.
Activities will resume tomorrow after considersable consumption of Hot & Sour Soup.

  Design Within Reach

  Web color thing

A web-device for determining hexadecimal color code:moreCrayons - slider - vera nice.

  Was shaky McNabb sick during Super Bowl?

ESPN reports that McNabb was out of it during the Super Bowl. Kinda showed...

2.7.2005

  Gigapxl Project

  Superbowl Commercials 2005

Best Super Bowl Ad Site Evar: AOL Sports.

2.6.2005

  Solar super-sail could reach Mars in a month

  Solar super-sail could reach Mars in a month

2.5.2005

  Day By Day

The best political cartoon on the internet: Day By Day by Chris Muir.

2.3.2005

  'Star Trek: Enterprise' to End in May

  How to Cut...

  Everything you Need to Know About Writing Sucessfully: in Ten Minutes

2.2.2005

  Fifth Annual Weblog Awards

2.1.2005

  What if Bush has been right about Iraq all along?

Mark Brown of the Sun-times is facing this harsh reality for the anti-war crowd.

1.29.2005

  buffyology

Searchable 'Buffy' cast, writer, director and episode database. I know people who will need this.

  Atheism and children

  Fictitious Jumping Mouse Loses Federal Protection

The Preble's meadow jumping mouse, once seen as a costly impediment to development, is now viewed by the government as a critter that never really existed — and is no longer in need of federal protection under the Endangered Species Act. Yahoo! News

  Centuries' Old UFO Coin Remains Mystery

PRWeb

  Turning The Tables On PETA

  Ringers: Lord of the Fans,

A sympathetic documentary on LotR fans - Wired News.

1.28.2005

  Bush says US will withdraw if new Iraqi goverment tells us to

  Best of the Web

Excellent collection of articles today at OpinionJournal

1.27.2005

  :Stories of Imperial Collapse are Getting Old

1.24.2005

  CoT Rules

The Chronicles of Tobermory, despite my obvious prejudice, continues to be a great source for news links.

1.23.2005

  Score one for the evil 'West' and Liberty

Yushchenko Sworn In as President of Ukraine - FOXNews.com.

  Expect election day tire-slashing charges Monday

Remember the slashing of Republican tires in Milwaukee? Democrats to be charged. Geniuses bragged about it.

  Johnny Carson is dead.

I always enjoyed The Tonight Show when I was young - MSNBC.

1.22.2005

  Titan a 'Flammable' Moon Covered in Liquid Gas

Luckily for the solar system's second biggest moon there's no oxygen,
so there's no fire (fire, fire) - Yahoo! News.

  Is your luggage safe at the airport?

What? "Airport Security" people stealing from luggage? No!?! link

  Gladiators- more show business than slaughter?

British Association for Roman Archaeology reserach suggests that gladiator combat may not have all been to the death -
Scotsman.com News.

  Fossils could fill gaps in human evolution

Remains from Ethiopia date back 4.5 million years - MSNBC - from CoT.

  Free Iraqi

Blog by a pro-election Iraqi in Baghdad.

  We have recon troops in Iran? Oh c'mon...

  The War Against World War IV

In Commentary by Norman Podhoretz.

1.21.2005

  Way Too Much God

Peggy Noonan, speechwriting goddess, on Bush's inauguration speech.

1.18.2005

  From the "Solar Power is Free!!" Dept:

I may yet be right about this:
Spray-On Solar-Power Cells Are True Breakthrough
thanks to CoT.

  Dave Barry for the NYT

Dave Barry quit his column last week. We need good libertarians wherever we can get them.

  From Corrupt Govt. Officials Dept:

  What is its Relative Value in U.S. Dollars?

1.17.2005

  Chronicles of Tobermory

A news link blog that I harassed into existence: Chronicles of Tobermory.

  Fantasy Movies Hot in '05

From CoT: FOXNews.com .

1.16.2005

  From the Cyberpunk Becomes Reality Dept.

Human-machine interface is headed our way:
Wired News: Patients Put on Thinking Caps.

  A Filipina Columnist for p&f

  Star Wars Meta Cast Photo

  Top Weblogs

  Blogarama

1.15.2005

  ET Visitors: Scientists See High Likelihood

This really cool. Scientists actually saying, there's got to be something out here - Space.com.
"It takes away the ‘not invented here’ prejudice, pointing out that a ‘yes’ to ET visitation is exactly what side our current physics and astrophysics theories would come down on as the most likely situation," Haisch concluded.

1.14.2005

  The Rebels and the Redcoats

One of my students wondered today how the British might view the American Revolution (which we are studying). I found this:
BBC - History - The American War of Independence.

  Huygens Probe

Latest space geek event:
First Images of Titan's Surface
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