all-encompassingly

El Mitt Romney de Argentina (o algo asi…) habla del presidente actual de la republica, Nestor Kirchner.

Heh.
A man in Alaska has his laptop taken by the police because he was using the local public library’s wireless Internet connection. The connection wasn’t encrypted or otherwise protected. It was being freely broadcast.
They’re considering criminal charges for “theft of service.”
It’s a good thing he didn’t go inside and try to read any books.

In Montgomery County, Maryland, there is a new program (although the old one wasn’t spectacular either) for the “health” curriculum. When I was in high school it was basically sex-ed with some talk about drugs and depression as bookends. And this stuff goes way beyond practicing with Trojans and bananas.
From the an American […]

Some links from my surfings of the past week:
Google bomb explodes before reaching target
Magna Carta is a neo-liberal screed - fortunately Hugo Chavez is purging the Venezuelan constitution of all things capitalist.
Too many recipes, too little time to eat - Hungry for chocolate chip cookies?
Bolivia’s turmoil - Or, as Evo Morales says, “I’m here to […]

Aguante Palermo.
Dicen que no es muy ágil y que tiene dificultad manejando la pelota…pero vamos! Sin duda sabe meter goles.
  

When a serious candidate pulls out like this something is wrong with the process.
Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack withdrew as a candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination today, saying he could not raise enough money to compete with his nationally known rivals.
“This process has become to a great extent about money, a lot of […]

Google releases a paid version of Gmail, Spreadsheets, etc. for businesses.
Google vs. Microsoft, let the games begin.
Update: The most interesting part of the plan comparison page from Google is that the “Premier” edition offers limited release “Email migration tools”. Awesome. Hopefully this will work its way down the chain so that I […]

Mitt is apparently more electable as a Mormon than McCain (72 years old) and Giuliani (thrice married).

This is why I just nodded and said “well…we would all love peace…” when an Egyptian cabbie in Utah started telling me how Jews were bad and Israel was evil.
Two students visiting from Ohio were coming from a bar downtown when they got into an argument with their driver over religion, said police. After they […]

This guy is on a roll.
Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs lambasted teacher unions Friday, claiming no amount of technology in the classroom would improve public schools until principals could fire bad teachers.
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“I believe that what is wrong with our schools in this nation is that they have become unionized in the worst possible way,” Jobs […]

1. Tattoo “666″ on your arms.
2. Say you are God.
3. ???
4. Profit!

I think that the courts got this one right.
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the social networking Web site MySpace filed by the family of a 13-year-old girl who says she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man she met online.
The $30 million lawsuit accused the site of having no measures to protect children […]

From The New MoCo Progressive (via the police log):
On 01-27-07 at 2:10 p.m., a 41-year-old man hired two day laborers to help move his family in the 23000 block of Taylor Shop Place in Clarksburg. A dispute over pay occurred, and the victim alleged that a knife was displayed and he was chased. He was […]

Bill Clinton may replace Hillary in the Senate…once she is actually elected President, of course.
If Hillary Rodham Clinton wins the presidency, some top Democrats would like to see her husband, former President Bill Clinton, appointed to serve out Hillary’s unexpired Senate term.
“As a senator, he’d be a knockout,” said Harold Ickes, who was once a […]

it’s islam.
but you wouldn’t know it from lots of reports on the recent salt lake city shooting, like this one, where the reporter settles on a perfectly logical reason for the rampage: he grew up in war-torn bosnia! (you know, because we’ve had all these problems lately with bosnian rage and […]