FAIR says Judith Miller (one of the main media cheerleaders for the war) should get no protection nor be applauded for refusing to divulge her sources. Why? Because her sources came from within the government and were simply trying to…

I know that many criticize all the bad news out of Iraq, with its focus on the daily body count and seemingly unstoppable insurgency. Today, finally, the corner has been turned, as the Mail & Guardian reports: “Coca-Cola has returned…

So, I decide to backup my notebook computer using Norton Ghost, which does so in an arcane fashion by dropping to DOS, backing up everything, then rebooting into Windows. It does this because you can’t backup everything while in Windows…

For the past months, economists have been wondering why China just keeps letting the its U.S. balance of payments get more and more lopsided. Now it is becoming clear. China is launching a game of Go. The prize is control…

The battle to stop Pacific Lumber from illegal logging and environmental destruction in Humboldt County reached epic proportions. Tree sitters, court battles, and a death which many enviros consider to be murder. On a September day in 1998, the bearded redhead…

Euro Software Patents are DEAD! w00t!. Cory Doctorow: You have won the fight to keep software patents — America’s disastrous, failed system for awarding exclusive rights to mathematical instructions — out of Europe. Despite the other side’s nonstop dirty tricks,…

Police scuffle with G8 protesters Police and protesters scuffled in Edinburgh ahead of Wednesday’s G8 summit as officials braced for more demonstrations and the possibility of a terrorist attack. Nice move that, linking demonstrators with terrorism. One clown waved a…