] But our closest allies are persuaded less that war is
] justified than that it would be perilous to allow the
] U.S. to drift into complete solipsism. Loyalty should be
] reciprocal. Why does our President condone the swaggering
] and contemptuous approach to our friends and allies this
] Administration is fostering, including among its most
] senior officials. Has "oderint dum metuant" really become
] our motto?

U.S. Diplomat's Letter of Resignation - nytimes.com

So are you more likely a terrorist if you have a small bank account with lots of NFS's or if you have millions of dollars and large transactions? More dangerously "Unlike the current system, in which data stays with the airlines' reservation systems, the new setup will be managed by TSA. Only government officials with proper security clearance will be able to use it.". This means if you keep getting flagged as a problem, you cannot review the information and make corrections. Disturbing.

U.S. plan: Threat level for every flyer - Feb. 28, 2003

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The game you are about to play is a test of the next generation of Twenty Questions.

This works surprisingly well. The algorithm is very straight forward...

20Q - Play 20 Questions Against an AI

Fifty years to the day from the discovery of the structure of DNA, one of its co-discoverers has caused a storm by suggesting that stupidity is a genetic disease that should be cured.

Watson of "Watson and Crick" provides undeniable proof that intelligence cannot be measured on a single graduated scale.

Stupidity should be cured, says DNA discoverer - New Scientist

Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the suspected mastermind of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was arrested Saturday in Pakistan.

Pakistan Arrests Alleged 9/11 Mastermind

] A grand jury today indicted the police chief here, the
] assistant chief, two deputy chiefs and six other police
] officers on charges related to a fight outside a bar in
] November involving off-duty police officers and to
] accusations of a cover-up after the fight.

San Francisco Police Chief and Deputies Indicted in Cover-Up

There was a site outage from about 12:30 CST last night until 8:30 CST this morning. I hope you were asleep. The problem is resolved. There was nothing I could do about this, but I have made arrangements so that I'll be able to respond to these incidents more rapidly when they occur during this timeframe in the future.

] Hansen and Rubin have written a program that allows them
] to probe into all the unrestricted Internet chat rooms in
] the English-speaking world and dredge up thousands upon
] thousands of random sentences even as they are being
] typed. The casual remarks, desperate pleas, and lecherous
] queries that are sucked out of the stream of world
] chatter are then relayed in various ways on the two
] hundred or so small screens and ten loudspeakers that
] make up the machine's public face. The found words and
] sentence fragments can be strung out at random on the
] display monitors or made to race across the screens in
] constant streams, like a Times Square zipper, giving the
] thing a Jenny Holzer-like gnomic and oracular quality.

Chatter

] It's the most viewed video at www.c-span.org. Skip 28 minutes
] into the video for the appropriate part. A reporter asks Ari
] what the US is prepared to do for Mexico in return for its vote
] in the security council. Ari gets indignant and replies that the
] US doesn't buy votes from other countries. Hilarity ensues.

Ari Fleischer gets laughed out of press briefing

In case you missed it, here are the transcripts and Real Video of the Saddam Hussein interview with Dan Rather.

Transcript and Real Video for the Saddam interview with Dan Rather