Thats Iraq, and Afghanistan, but who's keeping score? (Well, besides Fox News.)

With parties in the streets of Baghdad and the comment today from Iraq's UN ambassador that "its over," it appears that regardless of what you think about whats happening, it appears to be happening exactly according to plan.

Look for NK to quitely chill out over the course of a few months.
Look for at least a few countries to pursue domestic Al'Q cells with renewed vigor.

Hawks: 2 Doves: 0

This is really well done: "Before and after images of various San Francisco locations used in Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece."

Vertigo...Then and Now

] Rep. Lynn Woolsey wants peace to have a better chance.
]
] In ambitious legislation re-introduced in Congress this
] week, the Petaluma Democrat and 46 congressional
] co-authors have proposed the creation of a Department of
] Peace, a kind of counterbalance to the Department of
] Defense.
]
] The primary author of the bill to create the
] Cabinet-level department is Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio,
] who is also an announced candidate for president.
]
] With American tanks and airplanes pounding Iraq, the
] chances of a U.S. Department of Peace may seem more
] remote than ever. But Woolsey isn't worried about being
] drowned out by the din of war.

Woolsey backs Department of Peace bill

Because it's unhealthy. Because it has become our obsession. Because it is dangerous -- a runaway train, roaring down a path to disaster.

Michael Malone writes in the February issue of Red Herring. (This is the article that John Markoff mentioned in today's NYT article.)

Forget Moore's Law | Red Herring

While governments debate how to prevent human reproductive cloning, it seems that nature has put a few hurdles of its own in the way. On page 297, a team reports that in rhesus monkeys, cloning robs an embryo of key proteins that allow a cell to divvy up chromosomes and divide properly. Unpublished data from this and other groups suggest that the same problem may also thwart attempts to clone humans.

Your methods are broken. Return to the drawing board. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.

'The Primates Will Not Be Cloned' | Science Magazine

] Air France Group said Thursday that it doesn't intend to
] continue operating its Concorde fleet after Oct. 31, the
] last day of its summer schedule, and will be suspending
] flights from May 31.

More regression. No more 3 hour flights from the US to Europe. Not that I could afford them anyway.

Smartmoney.com: Breaking News: Air France, British Airways to Pull Plug on Concorde

] Our vanguard entered Baghdad soon after nine o'clock this
] morning. The city is approached by an unmetalled road
] between palm groves and orange gardens.
]
] Crowds of Baghdadis came out to meet us: Persians, Krabe,
] Jew, Armenians, Chaldeans and Christians of diverse sects
] and races. They lined the streets, balconies and roofs,
] hurrahing and clapping their hands. Groups of
] schoolchildren danced in front of us, shouting and
] cheering, and the women of the city turned out in their
] holiday dresses.
]
] The people of the city have been robbed to supply the
] Turkish army for the last two years. The oppression was
] becoming unendurable, and during the last week it
] degenerated into brigandage. I am told that the mere
] mention of the British was punishable, and the people
] were afraid to talk freely about the war.

British welcome in Baghdad

] LONDON (Reuters) - Last week's daring midnight rescue of
] 19-year-old American soldier Jessica Lynch from an Iraqi
] hospital has become one of the few feel-good stories of
] the war for Western media outlets.
]
] For George Paine, a technology consultant-turned-amateur
] war correspondent, it was a headache. Before the dramatic
] rescue of the injured young woman, Paine wrote a short
] update for his Web site http://www.warblogging.com/
] mistakenly reporting that Lynch was among the soldiers
] presumed dead.
]
] Paine, part of a growing community of online diarists
] called "bloggers," awoke the next morning to irate
] e-mails from readers and fellow bloggers.
]
] "I was exhausted. I didn't make clear Jessica was only
] MIA," the New York-based war watcher said afterwards.
]
] In the annals of journalism, Paine's mistake had minimal
] impact. The responses led him to quickly correct the
] error and move on.

LiveWire: for Bloggers, War Is No Cakewalk

] Japanese electronics giant Sony has taken an
] extraordinary step to cash in on the war in Iraq by
] patenting the term "Shock and Awe" for a computer game.
]
] It is among a swarm of companies scrambling to
] commercially exploit the war in Iraq, which has killed
] more than 5,000 soldiers and civilians in the space of
] three weeks.
]
] MediaGuardian.co.uk has learned that Sony is set to
] launch a computer game called "Shock and Awe", having
] registered the defining phrase of the coalition's
] military campaign as a trademark in the US.

Sony leads charge to cash in on Iraq

] It's sad to say, but I've become addicted to blogs. And I
] guess that if I'm going to become addicted to anything in
] college, a blog - no matter what you think it sounds like
] - is one of the best things to become addicted to. So
] what is it, you ask?
]
] Look up the term in most English dictionaries, and you
] won't even be able to find it. In fact, my spell check
] doesn't even recognize the word.
]
] Turn to the Internet, however, and you'll find an
] abundance of blogs. The website marketingterms.com's
] definition of blog is "a frequent, chronological
] publication of personal thoughts and Web links." It
] further says that it "is often a mixture of what is
] happening in a person's life and what is happening on the
] Web, a kind of hybrid diary/guide site, although there
] are as many unique types of blogs as there are people."
] In simpler terms, it is a web log.
]
] My blog of choice is LiveJournal. On that host, I have
] found many interesting people. But the catch is, I don't
] really have to know them. I can peruse through days and
] days of people's inner thoughts and daily happenings with
] just the click of a mouse.

Online journals give people chances to vent feelings, catch up with friends