Month August 2005

California Army National Guard troops charged unauthorized, off-the-books “rent” to Iraqi-owned businesses inside Baghdad’s Green Zone in Iraq to raise money for a “soldier’s fund,” military officials and sources within the troops’ battalion said Friday. Army officials say the total…

Less than two months after giving $10,000 to an initiative campaign committee tied to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, a well-connected private prison company was tentatively awarded a $20 million contract by the state of California to operate a San Joaquin Valley…

A little bit of spicy chili peppers is all African farmers need to keep hungry elephants from stealing crops. Meanwhile, in our backyard garden, I’ve got about ten species of hot peppers growing, including the fearsome Habanero, which are just…

“A quintet of ‘podheads’ in Oklahoma has struck cyber-gold on the Internet with a rock-and-roll song that celebrates podcasts and denigrates terrestrial radio. “On a Podcast” is a light-hearted and profane anthem praising the freedom that artists have to create…

We posted yesterday about the new Microsoft policy of checking if your copy of Windows is legal before doing Windows updates. How does the update work, a tech friend asked, and indeed, I was wondering that too. There seemed no obvious…