] JustReason is our open source, inference engine.
] Knowledge decision makers use is represented with
] decision trees and new structures we call argument trees
] following insights from artificial intelligence research.
] JustReason draws on knowledge bases (stored as standard
] relational database tables) and automatically produces
] web pages that encode sequence of prompts that guide
] users to a conclusion.

I dunno why they went with PHP on this... seems like Java would have been the way to go for live charts.

JustSys justreason

] There have been 1,380 coalition deaths, 1,234 Americans,
] 74 Britons, seven Bulgarians, one Dane, two Dutch, two
] Estonians, one Hungarian, 19 Italians, one Latvian, 13
] Poles, one Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two
] Thai and nine Ukrainians in the war in Iraq as of
] November 26, 2004. (Graphical breakdown of casualties).
] The list below is the names of the soldiers, Marines,
] airmen, sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose families have
] been notified of their deaths by each country's
] government. At least 9,326 U.S. troops have been wounded
] in action, according to the Pentagon. The Pentagon does
] not report the number of non-hostile wounded. This list
] is updated regularly. For a historical look at U.S. war
] casualties, click here, and to view a list of casualties
] in the war in Afghanistan, click here.

10,706 total U.S. casualties. Why don't we hear THIS number more?

Casualties List at CNN.com

Eastern Europe and Asia -- the Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Siberia -- were a moment-by-moment challenge, even with the authors riding top-of-the-line BMW cycles.

This show is good. Man, did they get pwned in Mongolia!

Long Way Round : Chasing Shadows Across the World

] Increasingly, though, Russia and the West seem to be
] talking past each other. "I think there could be a new
] cold war," Mr. Markov said, "not a result of competition
] of interests, but because of miscommunication."

We have a President that respects and likes a fascist dictator, and a press that has the balls to refer to the differences between foriegn policies of American and Russian "democracy" as being the result of "miscommunication." Talking past each other!?

A Tug of War Over Ukraine

] Reasonable critics of the expansive provisions of the
] Patriot Act, on both sides of the aisle and in both
] Houses, have introduced legislation that would implement
] these modest changes. Far from gutting the Act, these
] would secure the important powers of the law, but place
] modest limits on their use. For most of us who voted for
] the Act, what sealed the deal was the inclusion of
] provisions that would require us to take a sober second
] look at the most contentious provisions in the Act by the
] end of 2005, before reauthorizing them. That time is
] coming, and the Justice Department does not want to lose
] the emergency powers it won in the aftermath of 9/11. But
] Congress should resist its overtures, move forward on the
] sunsets, and enact additional Patriot fixes if it
] believes them needed.

www.bobbarr.org: Patriot Act fixes

Arrrrg, Mateys! Ye can be the captain of the seven seas of your tub! Shiver me timbers!

Pirate Shower Curtain

When you point to any structure on the large image of the hand, that bone or structure will be highlighted in the smaller image to the left to help you locate it.

Anterior view of Right Hand

I believe all code is dead unless executing within the computer. For this reason I distribute the source code of my programs in modifiable form to encourage life and spread love. Opening one's code is a beneficial practice that both helps the community and grows the strength of the programmer.

Gallery of Computation | generative artifacts

] Given that completion of the Bulava and development of
] its land variant is still years away, Putin was probably
] referring to the Topol-M or re-entry vehicle, said Ivan
] Safranchuk, head of the Moscow office of the
] Washington-based Center for Defense Information.

President Promises Better Nukes

] An archaeologist from the University of South Carolina on
] Wednesday announced radiocarbon tests that dated the
] first human settlement in North America to 50,000 years
] ago -- at least 25,000 years before other known human
] sites on the continent.

Indians are old.

CNN.com - Scientist: Man in Americas earlier than thought - Nov 17, 2004