From the Onion - Skeptic Pitied.

Michael Kelly's latest column in the Wash. Post - "Marching with Stalinists" tells us who is really behind the "peace" marches and who they're marching with.
More of the same in National Review.
- (from my friend Jason G.)

Wash. Post - By a voice vote, the Senate voted to ban funding for the Total Information Awareness program. Excellent.

Innovation is inefficient. More often than not, it is undisciplined, contrarian, and iconoclastic. It nourishes itself with confusion and contradiction. This makes America the ideal place for innovation - Nicholas Negroponte.

Run Al, Run. (Sharpton, that is). Let's send him $20.

I actually learned something today - about The Golden Ratio.

"They" want to get at file-swappers through their ISP's. In the Inquirer - a brit tech mag.

In USA Today: Front-line troops disproportionately white, not black. Numbers refute long-held belief.

Show's we watched last monday: PTI with Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon.
Then Sportscenter and The Screensavers. Then on the History Channel we watched Mail Call and Peter Woodward's show Conquest.
A fine night of most of my favorite shows.

A few months ago I recommended Bjorn Lomborg's The Skeptical Environmentalist, a statistical inquiry into the claims of Wild Environmentalism, as a refutation of the Greens/Socialists. He has so upset them that a Danish committee has charged him with scientific dishonesty, but in the finest Stalinist tradition, they provided no evidence. Reason Magazine and The Economist try to explain. Lomborg replies.

Steve Wozniak was on Screensavers the other day. I like that guy. He made a pro-libertarian comment and showed off his Segway (which he'd brought in his Hummer). My kind of genius.

Berkeley mayor fined for stealing free papers. Unlike a certain high school principal.

Forbes has an excellent year-end round-up listing the top ideas of the last 85 years and related articles. In one of these Ben Stein describes how American society discourages innovation.

Evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson discusses The Origin of Religions, From a Distinctly Darwinian View.

Cyberpunk becomes reality #147: Pay at Kroger with your fingerprint.

Electronic Arts aims to be the next Disney. They continue to have top games including my favorite - NCAA Football, and C's - The Sims. Now with The Sims Online they could be holding the keys to the non-fantasy-game Everquest addiction.

Alan Heeger won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing plastic that conducts electricity. Eventually - spray-on plastic conductive layers, foldable video display, disposable electronics.

Finally, a missle defense system. When will critics figure out that Mutally Assured Destruction is long gone & ballistic missle defense is not a first-strike technology? It may have been optimistic to expect to shoot down thousands of Soviet warheads (though, just the thought of it sure put them out of business), but we must be able to defend ourselves from a handful of terrorist missle attacks, or we're simply wearing the emperor's new clothes.

Lott's Life: Turns into pillar of salt yes or no?
US News Whispers: Lott will go.
Washington Post: Lott will fight.

Some older links as I clean out the favorites file:
A Business 2.0 article about the development of the Counter-Strike mod for Half-Life. Cool.