When I heard that the bombs planted to kill Musharraf of Pakistan went off 30 seconds after the motorcade crossed the bridge, I was perplexed. What kind of idiots would do that? Now we know it was a handy bomb jammer.

Space Ship One made it’s first powered flight. It’s also interesting that the money backing for SS1 has come from a co-founder of Microsoft. I wonder if some people will change their opinions on the project as result. I’m cheering them.

(Sadly, Scaled Composites (maker of SS1) has a website that is horribly clunky.)

I keep most political related stuff out of my blog, just because. But I read my backlog of political feeds today and found some fun posts.

Why the blogosphere leans right. The Blogosphere is all over the dadgumed place, though I suppose their are more right leaning political blogs then left leaning ones.

Less than a week after the announcement of Saddam’s capture, Muammar Gaddafi, dictator of Libya and sponsor of terrorism, said Libya would give up banned WMD’s. I’m reminded of a “old” Cox and Forkum cartoon. And of course, scrappleface has some fun.

Best Quotes of 2003 was a bit funny. Peter Arnett was especially so. The war quotes were good as well. If anyone has a list of similar staggering things from the right, let me know.

2003 Dishonest Reporting “Award” - I’m always amazed at the double sets of values the media and the left has for Israel.

Finally, on a lighter note: An Israeli Joke and a Soviet Joke

I am really liking Widescreened NetNewsWire. Good suggestion, Jonathan Rentzsch.

A site listing the rulers of the nations of the world. I’m sure this site will come in handy one day. (Link via Interconnected)

I think I’m going to install Textism’s elegant Refer tool.

If I ever go to tour Paris, I want to do it on a Segway. Fortunately, there is a company doing just that - Paris Segway Tours. Only 70 Euros for 4-5 guided hours.

(Oh. It looks like the site is powered by the ”Big Medium” CMS system. Totally random bit of trivia.)

The lunchroom at work has flags from many nations hanging from the wooden rafters overhead. Two of the flags have always caught my eye. One with a machete on it, and another with an AK-47.

I dug around a little and found out their respective countries. The rifle crossed over a grim reaper sickle belongs to Mozambique.

The machete flag is Angola. The ”Official Web Site of the Republic of Angola” describes the flag and proudly says, ” The cog wheel, the machete and the star are yellow, symbolizing the country’s wealth.” The Iraqi information minister must have been taken a worldwide tour helping communist nations develop the textual content of their websites.

A huge mafia of criminals who openly setup headquarters with their logo out by the street, who tattoo themselves in society in which a tattoo is only on criminals, arm themselves in a society in which civilians are not permitted to own guns, and are infallibly polite when extracting extortions. The Yakuza just seem so… so odd.

There is an article on Wired News about Russian flying saucer technology being used by the US Navy. Visiting the Russian company’s official website, EKIP Aviation Concern, is quite interesting.

Apparently one of the biggest benefits of flying saucer tech is the more spherical body shape is much more efficient that the long cylinders used in current airplanes. By it’s nature, a sphere shape of the same weight as a cylinder can hold more stuff, and be stronger than a cylinder. Thus it apparently is with UFOs as well.

I spent today catching up reading new posts on blogs that took place during my month-with-a-down-computer. The amount of good material I’ve read today is staggering. It’s amazing that once, not too long ago, I did not have this hugh wealth of relevant information coming in.