A Great Man Dies, Unheeded: George F. Kennan, who out-thought and outlived all the fools who outranked him, is dead at the age of 101. Being America’s wisest diplomat, he was of course misunderstood and ignored for most of his life. He lived to see… ———- i dunno… who knows, either he was brilliant or […]

Schiavo: I’m going to take a contrary view on the Schiavo case. I actually agree with the callous sentiments of the RudePundit: she’s gone. There is no person there. Her cortex is a film of goo. It’s a sad story, but everyone has to face the fact that she’s never going to recover and what’s […]

Buildings In About 12 Hours: Bringing me back to the days when I used to play C&C: Red Alert, a few engineers in London have devised a way to quickly erect cement structures in the field. The “building in a bag” is essentially “a sack of cement-impregnated fabric” that, with a little air and water, […]

Digital Solidarity Fund for community computer projects launched in Geneva: A “Digital Solidarity Fund”, a voluntary financing mechanism designed to provide community computers, was launched today in Geneva, with United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan welcoming the initiative as contributing to the fight against poverty and bridging the information divide. http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=13643&Cr=information&Cr1=technology —————– this is good news.