Any pretence of constructive activity today has been washed away by my rediscovery of Tiberian Sun. Which wouldn’t be so bad if I didn’t keep dying.
And what’s worse, I only went and broke one of my resolutions and hobbled another yesterday. I’m going to claim mitigation on buying a book, as it’s in my must read list.
If Microsoft thought that their legal woes were over (or at least easing up a bit) then they were wrong. Mobile phone manufacturer Sendo has filed against them over the Z100 Stinger smartphone. Regardless of the outcome of the case I suspect the discovery phase of this trial will be as entertaining (and as damaging to Microsoft’s reputation) as the anti-trust case. It was fun watching MS execs try to explain away phases like ‘knife the baby’ and ‘cut off their air supply’ from memos written about their competitors.
A war will be good for America’s economy, or rather, according to Bush, not going to war would be bad for it.
abovetopsecret.com’s history of the US’ experiments on its own citizens.
Anti-War demonstrators in Seattle are planning Reclaim the Streets style protests on the day war starts in Iraq. So long as they don’t get labelled ‘enemy combatants’ they’ll be okay.
The Missile Defence system won’t be much use against a terrorist attack. In fact, it might not be any use at all.
Superpowers don’t tend to remain superpowers. A potted history of the collapses of other great powers in the twentieth century.