Enthusiastically Ambiverted Hopepunk
Didn’t we learn anything from the years the Russians spent trying to fight in Afghanistan? Apparently not.
Hundreds of American troops were pulled out of the ground battle with al-Qaeda forces because they failed to adapt to the guerrilla tactics required for fighting in the mountains, according to their Afghan allies.
(Addendum: the MetaFilter comments thread for this article has some good points, if you can dig through the partisian bickering.)
Well, so much for getting cars with better mileage and less dependence on oil and gasoline.
The Senate yesterday defeated an effort to increase fuel efficiency standards for cars, sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks by 50 percent over 13 years, voting instead for a measure — backed by the auto industry — that would give the Bush administration two years to develop its own mileage rules…. Yesterday’s Senate action — which included passage of a measure to exempt pickup trucks from any new fuel economy standards — followed an intensive lobbying and advertising campaign by the auto industry.
The entire text of the 1911 Encyclopedia Brittanica has been scanned and placed online.
Unix Under the Desktop: A penguin’s eye look at Apple’s OS X, from Linux Journal.
From the “this is news?” department: Study shows teenage girls sexually harassed on the Internet.
The articles I linked to about Googlebombing on the 5th have inspired a third followup article worth reading: The Tripping Blog – How Weblogs can turn an idea into an epidemic.
On the internet, nobody knows you’re Ravi Desai (with apologies to Peter Steiner).
There’s a very interesting article on Slate talking about Arthur Andersen’s disappearing act, as the accounting firm enters negotiations investigating being absorbed by other major accounting firms (disclaimer — I am presently employed by Todays Office Staffing, a temp agency who contracts me to Xerox, who has me running the print shop for Arthur Andersen‘s Seattle office — however, I learn more about the current Enron/Andersen scandal from papers and the ‘net than I do from the office).
I don’t know what he’s talking about, but as I was just delivering something to another floor, Bush was on TV giving a press conference. I walked by just in time to hear him say something along the lines of “…we’ll see what we can do about this flawed election.” My first thought — with the caveat that I have no context for his statement — is he really one to talk?
(This CNN story talks about the press conference, however, since the conference is in progress right now [2:45pm], there’s just an overview of what was expected to be talked about, but the article may be updated later.)