2008 May

The 10 Most Annoying Airline Fees

Bush Refuses to Read McClellan’s Book, Calling It ‘A Book’
Puts Chances of Reading Book at Zero
On a day when Washington was abuzz with the news that former White House spokesperson Scott McClellan had published a tell-all memoir, President George W. Bush offered his personal reason for not reading it.
“I have no intention of [...]

There’s a new Firefox extension called Water Levels of German Rivers 0.1.4 for Firefox.
The description is as follows: Water Levels of German Rivers shows water levels of German rivers.
That is all.

It takes a lot to shock Chris Goggans; he’s been a pen (penetration) tester since 1991, getting paid to break into a wide variety of networks. But he says nothing was as egregious as security lapses in both infrastructure design and patch management at a civilian government agency — holes that let him hack his [...]

Joe Satriani has posted the third and fourth in a series of weekly video podcasts from his European tour.

The Pentagon’s internal watchdogs can’t keep up with the explosive growth in military spending. Which means $152 billion’s worth of contracts annually aren’t being reviewed for fraud, abuse and criminal interference by the Defense Department’s Inspector General, according to a newly-unearthed report to Congress. The result: “undetected or inadequately investigated criminal activity and significant financial [...]

read `em and weep (for joy)

just read an article about race in the election. Some suspect Obama would be `taken out,’ were he to win. I know that if Ron Paul were to win, he wouldn’t last thirty days.
I suppose it’s a matter of who’s quicker on the draw: the Good Ole Boys or the Bilderbergers.

A Continental Airlines pilot reported being startled by what he described as a rocket that shot past his cockpit window Monday when the plane was about eight miles north of George Bush Intercontinental Airport.
The Federal Aviation Administration and the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force are investigating the incident, which occurred about 10:30 a.m.
They said it’s [...]

The Bush administration is planning to carry out air strikes against Iran by August and two U.S. Senators have already been briefed on the attack according to a report in the highly respected Asia Times, which cites a former assistant secretary of state and U.S. career diplomat as its source.
Muhammad Cohen’s article claims that [...]