Senate Minority Leader from Nevada. Suceeded Senator Daschle. My current employer.

US Senator Harry Reid for Nevada

This is the best geek show on PBS. If you haven't tivo'ed it yet I highly suggest you do. It's great. Yes it's "reality TV" but the idea is that they take scientists and make them do science stuff, but without their normal lab gear. So lots of coils, lots of boiling wierd concoctions... My favorite is (of course) the super physicist Johnathan Hare.

Rough Science | PBS

Google has launched a service designed to search TV content from US broadcasters including PBS, NBA, Fox News and C-SPAN.

http://video.google.com

Google switches on TV search beta

] The Solaris operating system is being released under the
] terms of the OSI-approved, CDDL (Common Development and
] Distribution License). Millions of development hours
] worth of code and over 1,600 patents are being
] contributed to the open source community. We know that
] innovation happens everywhere. And we're going to stand
] shoulder to shoulder with you. To push Solaris. And see
] how far we -- together -- can take it.

Soon. Everything in opensolaris is soon, but they have released the code to DTrace... which is cool. Of course it only works on solaris...

OpenSolaris.org

] Do this dude edisoncarter cracked open what appears to be
] a cheesy 3rd party PS2 controller (save the good stuff
] for the gaming, we always say), hooked up the lines to a
] parallel port for signal injection, and then hash-cracker
] style used a custom app that ran brute force key
] combinations until he came up with a slew of unreleased
] cheat codes for GTA San Andreas. Damn, dude.

That is so damn cool!

Brute-forcing GTA San Andreas cheat codes

] The CIA has established this site to provide the public
] with an overview of access to CIA information, including
] electronic access to previously released documents.
] Because of CIA's need to comply with the national
] security laws of the United States, some documents or
] parts of documents cannot be released to the public. In
] particular, the CIA, like other U.S. intelligence
] agencies, has the responsibility to protect intelligence
] sources and methods from disclosure. However, a
] substantial amount of CIA information has been and/or can
] be released following review. See "Your Rights" for
] further details on the various methods of obtaining this
] information.

CIA FOIA - Overview

] Obscuring large sums of mob money probably began in the
] United States in the 1920s with the increased criminal
] opportunities provided by the ill-fated Prohibition
] legislation. Organized crime took over businesses with
] high cash turnovers and them commingled the licit and
] illicit funds, creating the illusion that all the money
] originated from a legitimate and profitable enterprise.

Cause knowing is half the battle. Go JOE!

AmericanMafia.com - A Primer On Money Laundering

] President Bush prepares his I-pod during a bicycle ride
] at a secure location outside Washington D.C. December 12,
] 2004.

I don't like the President, but he has an Ipod: http://www.viiphoto.com/pictures/ChristopherMorris/CM-bush_private_view/28.cm.bush.12.12.04.W1191.jpg
I wonder if all the mp3s are legal.

Photo Essay A Private View of the President

] Orange is one of those words that famously has nothing to
] rhyme with it. The other one is silver. However, the
] Oxford Rhyming Dictionary does show both these words as
] having a half rhyme (also known as 'imperfect rhyme' or
] 'near rhyme').

Stupid English language. Silver, orange, bite me. I probably spent about 2hrs trying to prove this wrong when it finally hit me that a) it was the oxford english dictionary b) they're much smarter than me. Now I'm trying to find if there exists a word in -ANY- language that rhymes with "orange" or "silver".

AskOxford: Are there any words that rhyme with orange?

] New Delhi is in the middle of a big secret internal
] debate. On one side the largest democracy of the world is
] eager to explain to its citizens and to the world about
] the ongoing contacts with the UFOs and
] extra-terrestrials. On the other hand there are invisible
] untold international protocols that prohibit doing
] anything that may cause worldwide fear and panic.

That's right... everyone please start wearing your tinfoil hat right now.

Okay so the basis for this "news" story is that .in is being recognized as the world power it is. As the 2nd most populous country in the world, india has earned the right to become a member of the UN security council (well that and the fact that they have nukes). Indian scientists (whose duties are split between making nuclear bombs and figuring out ways of delivering them) should be encouraged to explore space, because the more we know the more we know. I think more politicians and goverments are recognizing that india is a global player and not that there are aliens going beep-beep up in the hills.

Of course if I'm wrong and there is an alien invasion with india squarely on the side of the alien invaders I'm gonna go ahead and switch sides. What with their superior technology and predilection for performing anal probes it pretty clear who's got the upper hand.

India may be the first country to explain to the world about extra-terrestrial and UFO contacts %u2013 the secret debate is on