Cloudy Thinking

Michael R. Gordon, Mark Mazzetti and Thom Shanker write in The New York Times about the steadily worsening situation in Iraq.

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Der Spiegel has an interesting interview with former President Jimmy Carter.

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A friend writes about user created media and the Israel v. Hezbollah 2006 War:

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I have been looking at how the Internet is being used to cover the war by Israel. There are now several video bloggers reporting what is happening on the ground. They are using cameras and sat modems to upload content to the Internet.

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SpeedTest is a visually rich bandwidth test. Wow!

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Charles J. Murray writes in DesignNews about Stephen Gass, of SawStop LLC. This is the story of the guy who invented a technique so a table saw blade will stop almost instantly when it senses a human finger.

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Michael D. Leomonick writes in Time Magazine about two books which are critical of string theory.

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A co-worker dropped by and asked how I like my Treo 700p. My short answer: “It’s OK, but it has not changed my life.”

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The Head Lemur writes about the terrorist plot to blow up multiple airplanes flying from London to the USA at his Raving Lunacy blog.

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An out-of-sorts friend writes: Is there ANY good news?

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The Israelis have themselves an Iraq/Vietnam… all the tanks and airplanes aren’t going to hack it if the local populace hates you. It’s not going to get any better for them as long as they think they are winning.

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Mike Landberg writes at SilliconValley.com Online: where obituaries go to be interactive.

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[Friend and respected consultant Peter Macauley contributed this note.] Peter writes: Carl Russo had some good comments on net neutrality and how much bandwidth is enough.

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Demir Barlas writes at Line56 What’s Wrong With Blogs. Enjoy.

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