Techfun

kuro5shin.org has a decent little article on the history of Iraq and how it came to be the way it is now. There is a lot of good information that reflects how the problems the US is having in building a new government could have been predicted by looking at the last few hundred [...]

EDIT: Including article so nobody has to login to Mercury News.
Report: Bush talked of bombing Al-Jazeera (San Jose Mercury News)
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Report: Bush talked of bombing Al-Jazeera
ROBERT BARR
Associated Press
LONDON - A civil servant has been charged under Britain’s Official Secrets Act for allegedly leaking a government memo that a newspaper said Tuesday suggested that Prime Minister Tony [...]

Outsourcing outrage
Indian call-center workers suffer abuse.

Long but entire.
From Capitol Hill Blue
Incivility Breeds Threats to Democracy
By EUGENE G. BERNARDO II - Providence Journal
Nov 11, 2005, 00:36
In 1982, noted criminologists James Q. Wilson and George Kelling developed the “broken windows” theory of crime. The premise was that when a broken window in a building is left unrepaired, the rest of the windows [...]

If Fox News Had Been Around Throughout History

This amused me from Bash.org
Text only, but discusses sex.

I just got this in my e-mail. I don’t think I’m part of their target audience but based on all the exclamation points it must be a phenomenal bargain. The picture doesn’t help at all.
Can anyone figure out what they are trying to sell me?

Capitol Hill Blue: Bush’s Increasing Mental Lapses and Temper Tantrums Worry White House Aides