CNN is reporting that the Mars rovers have turned off their collision avoidance systems (so they can go faster) and will be sent on “long drives into the sunset.” The NASA boys are going to just aim them in a specific direction and let them run until their batteries die out (how does a solar cell die???). Anyway, maybe they’ll run into something cool in a few weeks….]]>
22 Ambassadors held hostage
53 killed in Embassy shootouts.
]]>
Doc Searls who is a longtime supporter of Linux and Internet radio, mentioned the latest PenguinRadio RSS feeds in his blog the other day. I hope it leads to some people testing the links and telling me what is wrong with them, as it was my first stab at XML.]]>
Here is a collection of all the links]]>
Iraqwar.info but it is a pretty important story so I’ll run it here as well. Le Monde has an editorial on the Spainish train bombing that is turning a lot of heads in Europe. In it speaks about the European form of terrorism that has been going on for years, of minor incidents and a few murders, which have become almost sort of routine, and now the new form of terror that affected Spain and the United States on September 11–mass terrorism. It also speaks about how Europe has not quite realized, until yesterday, the level of passion in the United States for the war against terrorism. Andrew Sullivan has some of the story translated in English.]]>
Trident missile was dropped while being loaded into a submarine. The base was sealed, the President notified, and a whole slew of reaction teams called into place. Heads rolled… Now the problem. Not that a missile was dropped–it happens, but that the person blowing the whistle has “a past” as we used to say on Capitol Hill. People happy in their work and whatnot rarely come forward with tales of problems in their agency, so you are often left having to deal with people who might have a grudge (and thus, tell their story through that view). One thing we always learned was that no one told the whole story–you never got both sides–when we were investigating things like this. However, in this case, it appears the writer is correct–the story has been verified by the Pentagon (grudgingly). So now all the Northwest is up in arms about a possible nuke accident they didn’t know about. Wonder how many other times it happens that we don’t know about?]]>