the oracle

I used to think that Scientology was one of many ‘religions’ made by men to fleece an unsuspecting public. After reading a piece that appeared last week in the Village Voice, I see I was right, but also wrong.
Scientology has got to be one of the most destructive things ever wrought by man against his [...]

All those who know about these things knew it could not last for long. AMD is a scrappy company that pulled itself up from being a second source for Intel chips to a powerhouse that had Intel worried for more than a few quarters. It was only the inertia of the market that has kept [...]

Seems that the normally carefree people of Australia get really worked up when you mess with their internet access.
from whatsnextintech
Whirlpool, Australia’s largest technology forum recently was posting up prominent orange banners on there home page warning people of AVG’s LinkScanner Bots and its actions as a Malicious program to website owners and hosts, causing [...]

There is a small possibility it could happen. Of course, there is about the same chance that ‘W’ will wake up and see the error of his ways, and beg forgiveness from the nation he has shafted for the last seven and a half years.
Now that we have that over with, it is interesting to [...]

One writer’s opinion, shown on Yahoo, originally on ‘The Nation’ makes the case that with the current trend of the right wing of our government, led by Mr. Bush, to consider attacking Iran has the consequence of pushing up oil prices.
You don’t have to be an economics major to figure that one out.
But then some [...]

The nation celebrated its 232nd birthday yesterday. Still it is not old enough to have removed many stupid laws enacted in its ‘youth’.
Some of them -
Alabama
Dominoes may not be played on Sunday
You must have windshield wipers on your car
Alaska
No one may tie their pet dog to the roof of a car (City law in [...]

Bill Thompson, argues that the skies are becoming dark for cloud computing, and makes several assertions why this is so. In his article on BBC News, the point that rings truest to me is the possibility of the need of information and the impossibility of access due to any of a hundred different reasons.
Infrastructure [...]

An article in Newsweek brings this oddity, some people are taking the green movement to a point few of us might wish to go – at home funerals, without the aid of standard accoutrements like embalming.
James Green is dead. He’s lying on a classroom table—eyes closed, hands across his chest—while Donna Belk, who lectures [...]

Of course the Fourth of July is an important event, and  we should celebrate it, with boundless joy, but also, with reflection on what it took to gain the freedom we hold dear.
However, other days of the year have their entitlements too, and July 5 is one of them.
• Independence Day in Venezuela (1811) (oh, [...]

While listening to internet radio this morning, looking at things on several aggregators, and thinking to myself how free we would truly be, if we were free from war, I saw an article that expressed a sentiment I had totally forgotten about, since studying the Vietnam war in high school. (coincidently, the songs in the [...]