President Bush told two high-ranking Palestinian officials that he had been told by God to invade Afghanistan and Iraq and then create a Palestinian state to bring peace to the Middle East, they recall during a documentary on Middle East peace that airs next week in Britain.

There has to be some more context to this, but still ...

Bush said God told him to invade Iraq, Arab leaders say / Palestinian officials confirm comments from documentary

ORSN, European Open Root Server Network
The Independent DNS Solution with IPv6 support for the European Community.

Paul Vixie is involved with this ... I'm not sure what the point is. On that note, I've never understood why recursive nameservers don't just track the root zone and do away with the root servers altogether -- each nameserver would know about all of the TLDs and their authoritative NS.

European Open Root Server Network with IPv6 Support

There are many pocketsize digital music players available, but they fall into two groups: Apple's iPod products and everything else. That split, rooted in technology as well as style, poses a challenge for music lovers who want to upgrade their devices.

Between DRM and propriatery codecs, I'm afraid that CD may remain for a long time the only "universally accessible" format.

My Songs, My Format

Paramount cited Sony's next-generation PlayStation 3 game console as a key factor behind its decision. Due next spring, the next-generation console will come equipped with a Blu-ray DVD player and that could drive demand for movies on Blu-ray discs.

This could carry the day. I've heard that the biggest title for PS/2 for the first year or so it was out was The Matrix -- as in the movie. When it launched, PS/2 was the cheapest DVD player you could buy in Japan by a fairly wide margin.

Rival camps keep slugging it out in DVD format war

The initial propulsion work in support of NASA’s bid to return to the Moon and go on to Mars will focus primarily on adapting space shuttle systems and developing methane-fueled engines, a technology with which the United States has little experience.

NASA Propulsion Strategy Reaches Back While Looking Ahead

As the Gulf Coast reels from two catastrophic storms in a month, and the Carolinas and Florida deal with damage and debris from hurricanes this year and last, even some supporters of coastal development are starting to ask a previously unthinkable question: is it time to consider retreat from the coast?

Some Experts Say It's Time to Evacuate the Coast (for Good)

So suppose there is a Great Intender, who mapped out the circuitry of living cells with the care an Intel engineer would bring to a new microchip. Where then did the creator come from? Was he created by another creator? Or did he evolve?

Materialism isn't easy.

For the Anti-Evolutionists, Hope in High Places

The trial presents a particular challenge for the journalists from science magazines. In the courtroom hallway during a break last week, Celeste Biever, a reporter for NewScientist, was interviewing a courtroom regular, a bearded local pastor who says he considers evolution a lie.

"You want half-bird, half-fish?" she asked, drawing a dotted line on her notepad.

"Yeah, why not," the pastor said.

In Pennsylvania, It Was Religion vs. Science, Pastor vs. Ph.D., Evolution vs. the Half-Fish

Australians Barry J. Marshall and Robin Warren won the 2005 Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for showing that bacterial infection, not stress, was to blame for painful ulcers in the stomach and intestine.

Australians Win Nobel Prize in Medicine

President Bush nominated Harriet E. Miers, the White House counsel, as his choice to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor this morning, his second nominee for the Supreme Court in the past two and half months.

Longtime Confidante of Bush Has Never Been a Judge - New York Times