April 16, 2007 issue - Judging from the media in recent months, the debate over global warming is now over. There has been a net warming of the earth over the last century and a half, and our greenhou
So I got a shiny new iPod for Christmas, and my previously held contempt for podcasts (who has the time?!) has melted away and been replaced by complete and total love. I'm actually quite amazed at ho
"The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer..." I can see the logic, but I fa
"We asked 100 writers and thinkers to answer the following question: Left and right defined the 20th century. What's next? The pessimism of their responses is striking..." No sh*t. Via Ian M
"The administration insists that there is no arms race in space, although the United States is the only nation that opposed a recent United Nations call for talks on keeping weapons out of space.
"Social policy makers and town planners will soon be able to play 'SimCity' for real using grid computing and e-Science techniques to test the consequences of their policies on a real, but anonym
"Science teaching is in a dangerous decline that is putting Britain's technological future at risk. Only a complete overhaul of education policy can rescue the situation, a high-powered House of
"The release of the U.S. National Space Policy (NSP) ... has worried many experts, who say the policy marks a strategic shift toward a more military-oriented, unilateral approach to space for the
"Linden Lab is contemplating a solution that would create a privileged class of users [...] with everyone else limited as to the functions available or the locations in which their scripts and ob
"Proposed arms control agreements or restrictions must not impair the rights of the US to conduce research, development, testing and operations or other activities in space for US national intere
"U.S. President George W. Bush has authorized a sweeping new national space policy, green-lighting an overarching national policy that governs the conduct of America’s space activities." Whe
William Gibson highlights an interview with Dubya that seems to indicate he's either been asleep for the last six years, or has some serious issues regarding his ability to comprehend reality. The ast
David Louis Edelman has an idea that reminds me of the 'Campaign for Digital Democracy' idea I've been kicking around my mind. Expect more on this in the future.
Oh, brilliant. Giving some suit a new job description will really get things moving, for sure. Two words for those with short memories: 'drugs' and 'czar'? New Labour put out more hot air than the ent