Day January 5, 2006

Did Palestine take down Abramoff?

In a sense, yes. That’s precisely what happened. Abramoff money funded illegal settlements in Israel with sniper rifles, etc. to use against Palestinians. The FBI noticed this, and wondered what else Black Jack was up to. Juan Cole explains Abramoff’s…

Microsoft releases patch 5 days early

Rather than wait until the 10th, their normal date for releasing patches, Microsoft has released the patch for the WMF vulnerability 5 days early. Scoble reported they had 200 people working on this and I bet they haven’t slept for…

Yikes

From Blair Watch. Big Brother’s Little Brother, knows what you read…. How a guy used to few lines of shell script to download amazon.com’s wishlists for everyone, checked them for "Subversive" books, and using yahoo people finder and google maps…

Democrats, stop dissembling

Media Matters fogs the air about Abramoff money to Democrats. (the) suggestion that Democrats took money from Abramoff at all appears to be false — a search of the Center for Responsive Politics’ database turned up no data showing any…