Dowbrigade

Dowd: Clarence Thomas is shallow and quite mad…
Sullivan: Maureen Dowd is shallow and quite mad… (Wednesday’s entry)

William Gibson (one of my faves) relates George Orwell (100th anniversary), Big Brother and 1984 to US Govt.’s Total (now Terrorist) Information Awareness.
“This outcome may be an inevitable result of the migration to cyberspace of everything that we do with information.” from “NY Times [...]

Useful specialized search engine searches Op-ed pages and letters to the editor of over 600 daily newspapers.

The big local Boston story today is Anna Gitlin,
a 25-year old woman who, trapped in a traffic jam and late for work,
rammed a cop
trying to redirect her.
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A Penn State study released today shows most users of search engines view not only just the first page of results, but only examine the first result on that first page.
‘About 55 percent of users checked out one result only. More than 80 percent stopped after looking at “three results”.’

Turkey opens bases to US
By James C. Helicke, Associated Press, 6/25/2003
ISTANBUL — Turkey will open its military bases, ports, and airports to
the US-led coalition for logistical support in the rebuilding of Iraq,
officials [...]

Is it just me or is anyone else dreading a Bush – Kerry matchup
in ‘04. Perhaps it’s just the sour grapes of an old Harvard man at the
prospects of seeing two Yalies face off.  And Bill makes three.  And
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MoveOn is a left-leaning PAC which is holding a virtual Democratic Presidential primary this week. All of the declared candidates are participating. Unfortunately, it is too late to register for it if you aren’t already a member. Results wll be announced Friday. Check out the candidates statements here

Art lovers can now look at Michelangelo’s famous ceiling
in the Sistine
Chapel via their computers.  In a major upgrade of
their website, the Vatican has digitized much of their art collection.  Read
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Apple’s
new G5 desktop computer has been dubbed the "Cheese
Grater" model because it looks, well, like a cheese grater.  Billed
as the first 64-bit PC, Apple claims it leaves even the [...]

BAGHDAD, June 24 – Iraqi footballers — freed from the
threat of beatings and jailings under Saddam Hussein — celebrated
their return to the national soccer stadium on Tuesday by thrashing a
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A new high energy laser weapon and F-16 flight simulator, designed by the Air Force Research Laboratory and the Theater Aerospace Command Control Simulation Facility at Kirtland Air Force Base, will let pilots test technology that could put the United States far ahead of its “enemies”.