US elections

This article on the BBC news site by Tim Egan is very interesting.
Protest vote turns the tide

Amongst other things he says...

If you win by moral values, you can also die by moral values. By courting conservative Christians with a family values agenda, Republicans set themselves up as the party of superior morality. And when their glass house started to crumble, the very voters they had worked so hard to become active participants in the democracy turned on them.

He ilustrates his points with interesting examples.

UK ID card scheme is doomed to fail

According to an article in The Register, an attempt to put a face-saving downscaled version into place threatens to wreck the UK ID card scheme sooner, rather than later. An email exchange between David Foord of the Office of Government Commerce and Peter Smith, acting commercial director of the Identity and Passport Service, leaked to the Sunday Times, paints a picture of an impossible mission, a "Mr Blair" driving a cut-down "early variant" card and a Passport Service already making contingency plans in anticipation of ID cards crashing in flames.

The full Register article: UK ID card scheme near collapse

Death forecast - how long will you live?

I've often said to my friends that I don't expect to live to a ripe old age because not many people in my family do. But this site...
www.deathforecast.com
reakons I'm going to keep going until 79.

Micro sculptures

Amazing mircoscopic art at this site
Willard Wigan micro-sculptor

An elephant on a pin!

Online journal of a black female zen buddhist

I like this blog...

Online journal of a black female zen buddhist struggling to be mindful in a distracting world.

The campaign for internet freedom

Amnesty has launched irrepressible.info a campaign for internet freedom.

The Internet is a new frontier in the struggle for human rights. Governments – with the help of some of the biggest IT companies in the world – are cracking down on freedom of expression.

Nuclear fusion reactor project

Seven international parties involved in an experimental nuclear fusion reactor project have initialled a 10bn-euro agreement. (see bbc news story)

Nuclear fusion sounds such a good idea in theory - clean inexhuastable power - but it's a difficult technology to get working. After all what you are trying to do is create a mini sun on Earth.

I wonder what would happen if they invested ten billion Euros in research into alternative types of power? I'm sure you'd have some guarunteed results with that kind of expenditure.

Microsoft Says Recovery from Malware Becoming Impossible

In a rare discussion about the severity of the Windows malware scourge, a Microsoft security official said businesses should consider investing in an automated process to wipe hard drives and reinstall operating systems as a practical way to recover from malware infestation.

See full article

I starting switching to linux about 6 months ago... it's the only way to go.