] The Tennessee Fox Trot Carousel plans to pack up its
] whimsical figures and move to Bicentennial Capitol Mall,
] said attorney Bob Tuke, a member of the nonprofit
] carousel board.

slowly but surely, downtown is gentrifying.

Carousel ready to leave Riverfront Park

] THE first President Bush has told his son that hopes of
] peace in the Middle East would be ruined if a war with
] Iraq were not backed by international unity.
]
] Drawing on his own experiences before and after the 1991
] Gulf War, Mr Bush Sr said that the brief flowering of
] hope for Arab-Israeli relations a decade ago would never
] have happened if America had ignored the will of the
] United Nations.
]
] He also urged the President to resist his tendency to
] bear grudges, advising his son to bridge the rift between
] the United States, France and Germany.
]
] %u201CYou%u2019ve got to reach out to the other person.
] You%u2019ve got to convince them that long-term
] friendship should trump short-term adversity,%u201D he
] said.

Bush Sr warning over unilateral action

This is a really fabulous bipartisan organization we should all support.

Billionaires for Bush (or Gore)

] Reporters watched a video that appeared to show Pakistani
] agents in bullet-proof vests scaling the wall of
] Mohammed's building, then handcuffing him and placing a
] black hood over his head.

okay, can you say stupid? Not only are we beating our chest about this takedown, but we're also giving the 'enemy' too much information about what we are capable of. Is not the reason why we haven't captured Bin Laden because we revealed that we had a lock on his satellite phone and he stopped using it? Does it make sense for both the Pakistani's and the US to reveal detailed information, including *video* of how our intelligence forces work?

Why is it that the press can see this stuff but we're still waiting on the 'conclusive evidence' that points to Iraq's WMD?

How mobile phones and an £18m bribe trapped 9/11 mastermind

] The problem is compounded by the increasing
] sophistication of law enforcement officials, who now
] regularly tap nationwide databases like the FBI%u2019s
] National Crime Information Center to search for
] outstanding warrants. Getting names off those lists can
] be a daunting task.

One more reason why we don't need centralized databases, at least until we can ensure that they won't have polluted data.

The darkest side of ID theft

] for the offense of exercising her rights as a citizen of
] one of the world's greatest democracies, she was spat on,
] threatened and yelled at.

only in Florida (or TX, TN, MS, AL, SC, NC...)

Pseudo patriotism vs. American values

] When John Ashcroft was in the U.S. Senate he was always a
] champion of states' rights.
]
] Too much power is held in Washington. State government is
] closest to the people.
]
] Now that he's the attorney general, the states are
] wondering where he's gone. The message is clear from his
] U.S. Department of Justice: We feds know best.

I wish he would've gone further into how the Republicans have done a complete about face on party lines. How is it that we're getting ready to amass a trillian dollar deficit in less than 2 years under this administration when Clinton had given us a surplus? Shouldn't Mississippi be back to segregation by now under Bush? Who spiked the punch?

Where's that states'-righter Ashcroft now? (captimes.com)

blogged for future reference.

The McKinsey Quarterly: Hidden flaws in strategy

Pass the word around!!!!

EUROFEST NASHVILLE 2003

] Industry veteran Gordon Walton, who ran online games for
] Kesmai, helped to build Ultima Online, and recently
] launched The Sims Online, spoke at length about what's
] it's like to wear those shoes.
]
]
] They're really uncomfortable shoes.

Ten Reasons You Don't Want to Run a Massively Multiplayer Online Game