[ Forwarded to me in an e-mail and recommend into MemeStreams
as I believe this will be of significant general interest.
--Rek ]

Last fall NPR did a series of broadcasts on the history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. The whole series was broadcast on KQED last night. Its very factual and provides an excellent overview of the historical roots of the problem. It does not place blame on either side, but simply tells what happened. You can listen to the whole series in an hour and I highly recommend it.

NPR : The Mideast : A Century of Conflict

] "Hackbot is a vulnerability scanner that started as a
] joke at first, but now it has become a serious project. Hackbot
] scans over 300 CGI's, scans for banners of several services,
] does unicode checks, checks for open relays, outsmarts Cisco
] PIX MailGuard, can do ripe checkup, spamcop db checkup,
] X connect test and lots more."

Of interest...

Hackbot

] So welcome, and special thanks to those of you who
] arrived early and started colonizing the place before it
] was even completed. That really cheered me up, a couple
] of weeks ago. I don’t have to feel I’m moving into an
] empty (and dishearteningly brand-new) structure. There
] is already some human space here, the start of that
] sense of duration and habitation, and soon there’ll be,
] I hope, more.

] In spite of (or perhaps because of) my reputation as a
] reclusive quasi-Pynchonian luddite shunning the net (or
] word-processors, depending on what you Google) I hope
] to be here on a more or less daily basis.

Its live now!

William Gibson's Blog

I'm not sure if you've seen this already, but it bears repeating.

The ballad of Bilbo Baggins

As a member of the IGDA (International Game Developers Association), I have the privilege to nominate games for the annual awards. If there's any game in particular that you'd like to recommend to me this year, please let me know. Caution though: I'm not interested in suggestions such as "This game was really cool," or "Everyone I know plays this game." I'm more interested in things such as production values, best original game character, excellence in audio, level design, and so forth.

If you'd like to throw in your $0.02, please have comments to me, either by posting a reply here or sending an Email to elonka@aol.com, by January 20th, 2003.

Thanks!

Elonka :)

Game Developer Awards - Nominations Open

[[Who really poses the greatest danger to world peace? Iraq and North Korea are certainly high on President Bush's list though Iraq is still working hard to deny him a reason to attack. ]]

I wish this poll had INDIVIDUALS instead of nations.

TIMEeurope.com: Poll -- The Biggest Threat To Peace

This is the schedule for track days at MidTN SuperSpeedway for motorcylces on the road course. I blog'd it so you don't have to.

Middle Tennessee Sport Riders 2003

[[The Bush administration, under fire for its handling of the economy, has quietly killed off a Labor Department program that tracked mass layoffs by U.S. companies.]]

My theory is still that 'there is no spoon.' Meaning that I don't believe there is a recession (despite being unemployed for nearly 2 years) because the growth rates that we're being compared to are completely out of whack for the last 5 years. But this is an interesting data point.

Shooting the messenger: Report on layoffs killed

From the mind of Penn Gilette. With props to Shawn Yeager for tipping me off to this. This tells the story of Penn's run in with Las Vegas International's finest.

A different take on Airport Security

This summer, millions of businesspeople will be upgraded against their will. And no, we don't mean their flight plans.

Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT)will officially end technical support for Windows 98 and Windows NT 4 on June 30. The financial implications for Microsoft and others could be significant, even in the short term.

Better than any economic stimulus plan Bush has put forth