I am not worried about the rise of the cultural conservatives. I am worried about the disappearance of an internationalist, pro-American business elite.

C.E.O.'s, M.I.A.

] "The more compelling our journalism, the angrier the
] radical right of the Republican Party gets," he
] explained. "That's because the one thing they loathe more
] than liberals is the truth. And the quickest way to be
] damned by them as liberal is to tell the truth."

After reading this I got the feeling he's more than a little pissed off at these guys.

Bill Moyers Fights Back

] One reason I'm in hot water is because my colleagues
] and I at NOW didn't play by the conventional rules of
] Beltway journalism. Those rules divide the world into
] democrats and republicans, liberals and conservatives
] and allow journalists to pretend they have done their
] job if, instead of reporting the truth behind the news,
] they merely give each side an opportunity to spin the
] news.

...

] Hear me: an unconscious people, an indoctrinated people,
] a people fed only partisan information and opinion that
] confirm their own bias, a people made morbidly obese in
] mind and spirit by the junk food of propaganda is less
] inclined to put up a fight, ask questions and be skeptical.
] And just as a democracy can die of too many lies, that kind
] of orthodoxy can kill us, too.

This is quite a rant...

Democracy Now! | Bill Moyers Responds to CPB's Tomlinson Charges of Liberal Bias:

] If you work your way down the Forbes 400 making an x next
] to the name of each person with an MBA, you'll learn
] something important about business school. You don't even
] hit an MBA till number 22, Phil Knight, the CEO of Nike.
] There are only four MBAs in the top 50. What you notice
] in the Forbes 400 are a lot of people with technical
] backgrounds. Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison,
] Michael Dell, Jeff Bezos, Gordon Moore. The rulers of the
] technology business tend to come from technology, not
] business. So if you want to invest two years in something
] that will help you succeed in business, the evidence
] suggests you'd do better to learn how to hack than get an
] MBA. [3]

This is an excellent article. One hint, though: Your angel money doesn't have to amount to much if you're willing to work in a shack in India ;)

How to Start a Startup

] The small town of Galena, Alaska, is tired to pay 28
] cents/kwh for its electricity, three times the national
] average. Today, Galena "is powered by generators burning
] diesel that is barged in during the Yukon River's
] ice-free months," according to Reuters. But Toshiba,
] which designs a small nuclear reactor named 4S (for
] "Super Safe, Small, & Simple"), is offering a free
] reactor to the 700-person village, reports the New York
] Times (no reg. needed).

[ I've posted about this before... I think it looks very promising. -k]

Alaska Village Moves from Diesel to 'Micro-Nuke'

] So is the mini a maxi value? For me, clearly, no. When
] I consider that a good deal of my time is spent running
] applications like Disk Defragmenter, Scandisk, Norton AV,
] Windows Update and Ad-Aware--none of which are available
] for the Mac platform--it doesn't make sense for me to
] "switch" to a Mac at this time. But will Apple's famous
] marketing team be able to sell the the emperor an
] invisible computer anyway and turn the mini into a maxi
] hit? That%u2019s the question that remains to be
] answered.

simply hilarious.

Mac Mini: The Emperor's New Computer

] MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- Russian law enforcement officials
] allegedly helped terrorists to carry out last September's
] school massacre in Beslan, Russia, that left 344 people
] dead, according to the head of a special parliamentary
] commission.

Stop the genocide in Chechnya. Instead: KILL THE FUCKING MILITSIA.

Law enforcement helped Beslan gang - Jan 28, 2005

A Slovak man trapped in his car under an avalanche freed himself by drinking 60 bottles of beer...

[...]

He said: "I was scooping the snow from above me and packing it down below the window, and then I peed on it to melt it. It was hard and now my kidneys and liver hurt. But I'm glad the beer I took on holiday turned out to be useful and I managed to get out of there."

-J A true hero for Slavic peoples everywhere!

Man peed way out of avalanche

Arthur Ganson

MACHINES

That about says it all. Amazing video of knife throwing machine, atrichoke leaf walking... complicated and beautiful machines that express the creator's fascination with motion and engineering.

As seen on Nova Science Now.

Arthur Ganson's Machines / Kinetic Sculpture

Beautiful machine that... makes an artichoke petal walk on a large steel cylinder. Captivating video.

Machine with Artichoke Petal (#1) Artichoke_One.mov