So far, the major new McCain supporter that Palin has attracted is James Dobson of Focus on the Family. Of course, for Dobson, "women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership," so he may be voting for Palin's husband.

God told us to kill those Iraqis - the Sarah Palin doctrine.

We all have a data shadow that follows us around, and that more and more institutions interact with our data shadows instead of with us.

Because this site is the subject of an episode of IT Crowd I'm watching right now, ilooked up my day of death: Sunday, March 16, 2042

They should really be calling Vets Against the War "Vets for Freedom" and Vets for Freedom "Vets for Tyranny" Why Amy sometimes feels the need to put shills on the radio is beyond me.

The folks running the demonstrations at the Republic National Convention are showing us what a protest movement is supposed to look like. Glad to see them in action in Minneapolis. I'm wondering where they were during the DNC in Denver, though.

this is not the freedom they were promised

Google always launches things in a weird way. I'm looking forward to the browser when they actually get it ready for Mac to see how it stands up against Firefox and Safari. Undoubtably it will kick the new IE's ass even while in beta

Who's using the X-ray specs on you at the Denver airport?

Free to use images about Iraq range from activistas' anti-war shots to cunning US propaganda imagery but all together they paint a very interesting image of how we look at the occupation in Iraq.

"We have locked all the doors. We have been told that if we leave we will be detained. One of our people who was caught outside is being detained in handcuffs in front of the house. ... More than a dozen police are wielding firearms...." The real U S of A

I used to work here. Vickie and I had our run-ins, but she was from a school of journalism that still believed the media was for something other than simply distracting people. Good luck to her with whatever she plans on doing next.

A trio of journalists who have a track record of documenting police abuse at political conventions were stopped and searched during the early morning hours in Minneapolis by cops who stole their gear.

Check out this clip of Mythbusters' Adam Savage telling the folks at the HOPE hackercon about how the Discovery Channel was bullied by big credit-card companies out of airing a program about how crappy the security in RFID tags is.

Barack Obama, almost as much a zionist as John McCain, faced light criticism when he announced promised AIPAC that he'd support Israel's entire acquisition of Jerusalem in spite of international law and Israel's official borders based on it's pre-1967 occupation of the Palestinian territories. He's since said what all presidents say, that it's a subject that needs "negotiating." Meanwhile, the GOP voted to consolidate Jerusalem for Israel by moving the US embassy to Israel there, likely on stolen Palestinian land.