Hollywood's Bold Strategy: Punt E verything related to Hollywood is worthy of a Jon Stewart joke... except its recent box-office numbers...

Chris Matthews: Bush "Sneaks" Into Pakistan "Like a Drug Dealer" T he invaluable Newsbusters gang captured the loathsom...

The costs of appeasement I f there's one thing history makes clear, it is the costs associated with inaction and appeasement. The most ...

BlackBerry 8700G Review - Executive Summary: Wow I 've just replaced my BlackBerry 7290 with an 8700G and had a couple of days to play w...

DHS and FBI rely on LAMP I 'd missed this article the first time around, but it's worth calling out. The Department of Homeland Sec...

Getting technical advice from USA Today T he estimable Kim Komando has some advice for readers who want to ensure hidden data is removed fro...

The Implosion of the Drive-by Media E IB featured a great summary of what they call the "drive-by" media: Treat the news [...as a...

Iran's Murderous Course F rontpage features a compelling read by Robert Spencer with multiple hair-raising conclusions. The most chilli...

Letters from a Financial Institution T he following is based on a real email from a financial institution with whom I do business. RE: Acces...

Search 2.0 T he Wink search engine is what can only be described as "web 2.0 search" or perhaps even "search 2.0". Yes...

Run your own online bank T he new Prosper.com website is an online marketplace specializing in loans. Want to lend some money and capture ...

F rom Digg - an introduction to a new open source, GPL peer-to-peer framework called Dijjer . Built by some of the folks who run reverr.com...

I f you're ever read science fiction, you've probably come across some crazy situation in which a black hole is used to transport me...

Doug's Anti-Keylogger Software Requirements I 've had this idea for a while of an anti-keylogging technology. Keyloggers are malici...

F rom the Digg front-page: Passclicks is a new way to logon to websites without users having to remember a password or passphrase. You ca...

F rom Digg: a series of well-written Linux tutorials -- from IBM, no less -- to help you learn OS fundamentals and prepare for system admin...

Franks on the UAE and the Taliban T im Graham at NewsBusters noted an interesting snippet of an interview with General Tommy Franks. Frank...

Captured Al Qaeda Documents: The Oil Spot Strategy A ustin Bay is analyzing captured and declassified Al Qaeda communications. One interest...

F ranklin -- certainly one of the primary instigators for American independence from the British Crown -- was also a legendary inventor, ent...

Another Network Neutrality Battle: Email T he latest scheme to violate Internet neutrality came in the form of an AOL and Yahoo announcement...