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Month: April 2004

  • Fallujah

    An anonymous person left the following comment in relation to Dick and Jon’s analysis of casualties in Fallujah. Such a lengthy comment has been rewarded with being posted – it adds to the debate at least. Say you’re on the street in fallujah and a man of about 60 comes out with an AK-47 and…

  • Jeff Jarvis on Rumsfeld

    Jeff Jarvis is live blogging a dinner that Don Rumsfeld is attending. We can only hope that he’s as tough on journalists’ bosses as he is on journalists.

  • A tale of two soldiers

    Kevin Drum has some insight into the military records of both George W Bush and John Kerry. I think his analysis is correct – the Republican game here is pretty low, and I don’t think they can win the argument.

  • 'Einstein' probe heads into space

    This is a huge amount of money to spend – but it might well be worth it. I am looking forward to the results – my bet is on Einstein being right. I do remember on Carl Sagan’s excellent Cosmos series that an experiment was performed on how time slows down as you move. An…

  • Hard drive speed limit is reached

    The limit of hard drives has apparently been reached. But at least its not likely to affect the production of drives for some time: The bad news is that this upper limit means that the fastest data can be written using changes in magnetisations is 435,000 million bits every second. The good news is that…

  • Dublin Elevation

    Feel like controlling some beams of light above Dublin? Get your 15 seconds of arty farty stuff here. I do wonder what May 1st will be like in Dublin, perhaps I should take a trip up.

  • Blair: a no vote means no

    Blair’s remarks are curious to those of us in Ireland who voted No in both identical Nice referenda. He seems to be talking around the issue rather than directly answering the questions posed. I would imagine that if the UK does vote No to the referendum that Blair will go back to the EU and…

  • Irish diplomacy hailed at EU talks

    CNN has a story on our own Bertie Ahern and his reputed expert negotiating skills. Curious that CNN make this kind of statement: A veteran of Northern Ireland’s peace process, Ahern’s diplomatic skills were honed helping to heal centuries-old sectarian divisions in the British province. Does Britain even have provinces?

  • Facts about Swifty Mc Veigh

    Swifty Mc Veigh “Don’t playahate, play along”

  • USA Today's Top Editor Resigns

    Interesting news from the media world… Remember Jack Kelley, the reporter for USA Today who was fired after a scandal in which it was disclosed that he had fabricated many stories for the paper ? Last night, Karen Jurgenson, the top editor at USA Today and an employee of the paper since its inception in…