"If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights (with Palestinians) ... then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished," Olmert told the Haaretz daily.

When I get a chance I look forward to reading this paper by a suerfer/physicist. I did the standard five minute first reading of the paper, which is, I read the abstract and the conclusion :-) The part that caught my eye was just before the conclusion where he writes (my notation slightly distorted) an equation that unifies gravity with quantum ( Read more... )

Love is not a canned-good dusting on a shelf.
Love is not a hammer rusting in a box.
So too, you are not a goal always wanting.
Life is confusing because of desire,

but desire, desire, desire!

It seems that once a piece of Free GNU/Linux software is on par with an existing piece of proprietary software, it trumps it. I believe that this trend will continue, but it will be a long slow process. If you want mainstream flash drm proprietary graphics card first person shooter games that output embedded word excel documents then now is not the ( Read more... )

"Aug. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Health officials say they may recommend widespread circumcision of adult men as a way to slow the spread of AIDS, a disease that killed 2 million people in Africa last year.

Positive findings in research results due to be reported next year could lead the World Health Organization to suggest the procedure, said Kevin De ( Read more... )

http://www.wbr.com/player/flaminglips/

the flaming lips are from Norman Oklahoma, where I now live and hack.

This may heat up the choice/anti-choice campaigns out there . . . depending on how one wishes to twist their interpretation ( Read more... )

So, my time in New York is winding down. Things went very differently than I had ever imagined. I started out very set on making the Free Textbook Project work and got a job writing textbooks, and educational tutorials for a company called Edutorial. This lasted only a few weeks before I was let go -- it turns out I'm not so good at writing ( Read more... )

"May 26 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Capitol Police are investigating a report that gunshots were heard in the garage of the Rayburn House Office Building near the Capitol. . . . The Capitol police maintains a shooting range in the basement of the Rayburn building, according to its Web site. CNN reported that the shots may have come from there. . . ."

"do you think osama bin ladin uses myspace?"