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Here in Utah it is a pretty big deal and a state holiday.
Happy Pioneer Day!

Un amigo me mandó una entrevista de Gastón Pauls que se dió en 2001. Me llamó la atención su comentario sobre la situación Argentina en aquel entonces.
Noticias: ¿Cómo vive la Argentina?
Pauls: De los últimos dos años, los últimos once meses los viví afuera. Pero percibo la violencia. No hablo sólo del hambre, sino de […]

UPDATE: Many of the facts available when I originally posted this story have now changed. Jean Charles de Menezes did not, in fact, do anything that should have placed him under suspicion (running towards subway, jumping the ticket barrier, etc). He was followed by plain clothes police officers because he looked like a suspect […]

Victoria Toensing helped write the Intelligence Identities Protection Act. She is also a “Republican activist.”
Yesterday Terry Neal of the Washington Post interviewed her for his online “Political Players with Terry Neal” series. He begins by describing Toensing’s conservative bona fides, and then hilarity ensues as she rhetorically bodyslams Neal for being such a […]

first, check out this story.

So, what is behind the billboard ad campaign? Apparently, Archibald has come down with a case of Steve Young Syndrome: He’s 31, very eligible, bumping around Utah Valley, but — gasp — he’s UNMARRIED!
His friends and co-workers at LogoWorks secured the billboard ad space as part of a campaign […]

dr. faulconer, a philosophy professor at BYU, addressed the question a few months back:

So why do we blog and why is it, for many, so addictive? Are we frustrated writers with no publisher but looking for an audience? People in need of attention? Is blogging a new kind of community, where some of us find […]

And we wonder why Africa can’t seem to find the path to development…all the money in the world isn’t going to change some of these thugs.
UPDATE: Andrea Mitchell was forcibly thrown out of the “photo-op” after asking Sudanese President Omar el-Bashir a question about Darfur. You can now read her take on the whole […]

You can never be sure how a web application will work based on the screenshots, but at first glance FeedLounge looks like a Bloglines killer…
Unfortunately, its still in “private” alpha, with an invitation only beta to come soon.

If you’re a web developer you should check out Ruby on Rails. I’ve been looking at it over the past couple weeks and I can’t help but be impressed. It is a framework for the Ruby programming language that allows super-rapid development of web applications. It’s what Backpack and Basecamp are […]

When it comes to personalized home pages, Microsoft is way out in front of Google.
Head over to start.com, the personal portal of Microsoft. And then check out Google’s offering at google.com/ig. Both are still playing catch up to Yahoo on the content side, but are far ahead on the usability front.
I think this […]

Commentary on Roberts has been all over the place amongst conservatives. Here’s an interesting bit from “Chairman Ann“:
It means absolutely nothing that NARAL and Planned Parenthood attack him: They also attacked Sandra Day O’Connor, Anthony Kennedy and David Hackett Souter.
The only way a supreme court nominee could win the approval of NARAL and Planned […]

Thirty-six years ago today Neil Armstrong took mankind’s first steps on the lunar body.
Today, Google launched moon.google.com. It’s a Google Maps type interface. You can see where the Apollo missions landed.
For fun, zoom in all the way and see what the moon looks like up close.

Am I the only one who sees a picture like this and thinks, “Is that a mental patient in the white lab coat and sunglasses?”

Arthur Chrenkoff points us to a recent Reuters article:
A suspected suicide bomber died on Tuesday in the western Afghan city of Herat while attempting to assassinate a local police chief, police said.
The unidentified man died in an explosion as he tried to approach the car of Khawja Isa, the police chief of Enjil district of […]

From an all-encompassingly reader:
A tough old cowboy counseled his grandson that if he wanted to live a long life, the secret was to sprinkle a pinch of gun powder on his oatmeal every morning.
The grandson did this religiously and lived to the age of 103. When he died, he left 14 children, 30 grandchildren, […]