By FOIA request, a Web site called Government Attic has obtained a series of crossword puzzles from the ethics office used to teach government employees right and wrong.

In all the discussion and bitching about AIG there is a strong undertone of “we need to get revenge on these guys”. I can understand that desire but I think there are many people who are not really clear on why the US government felt that propping up AIG was money well spent.

This little cutie weighs in at 13 oz (370 gr) including the internal hard drive. That low weight would make shipping much cheaper, and the extreme low power usage is nice too. At 6 Watts its far more energy efficient than anything else we have in the company IT stable – including 20 Watt Asus eee netbooks. It ships with a choice of Windows XP and Ubuntu so it could handle all of our needs.

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Two different news stories this week caught my eye, but strictly because of how they reflect on one another. I got several hits on an old post I had written called Senator Inhofe: Please define “Prominent Scientist”. The hits all came from people visiting a digg™ post at Increased Number Think Global Warming Is Exaggerated. This report presupposes that Americans, in general, possess the tools needed to develop a meaningful decision on scientific matters. All men are created equal, but after being created all bets are off. Some people have invested a huge amount of time and energy into studying specific subjects while others have forgotten what they learned in elementary school.