Yeah baby. BBC: Bush says US will strike first. “The president said he would not leave the safety of the United States and of the planet to the mercy of a few ‘unbalanced dictators’ who are suspected of working to develop weapons of mass destruction.” 
[Scripting News]
We don’t often send the Secretary of the Defense to ‘negotiate’. I suspect we’re going to be doing some serious prodding. NYT. US urges 60,000 Americans to leave India. This is probably based on new satellite data and data gleaned from military networks in both countries. Sombre stuff. We provided satellite data to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait days before the Gulf War on the uncoiling of armoured columns in Iraq. We suggested a preventative deployement of US troops to deter an attack. They told us to take a hike. Brent‘s idea is that Rumsfeld is going to tell the participants that we will take out their nukes. Unfortunately, we don’t have a good way to do this. It would be great if we had those new scramjet bombers the DoD is working on. That way we could launch a couple planes from the US, be over the target in 3-4 hours, drop super accurate silo/bunker busting smart bombs, and recover to Europe an hour and a half later. [John Robb’s Radio Weblog]
Stanton, thanks for all that you have done. Farewell to a Net Freedom Fighter. Stanton McCandlish leaves the Electronic Frontier Foundation after nine years of fighting for Net civil rights. Also: Senator Spam … and a personal note in this special edition of Declan McCullagh’s D.C. notebook. [Wired News]
About time. Congress Mulls Doomsday Plan. WBZ May 30 2002 5:14PM ET [Moreover – moreover…]
Music.. I have completed a project of encoding all of my CDs into MP3s on my Linux Workstation. Eventually, I want to use some web based software to broadcast them in the house, but haven’t figured that out quite yet.
Right now I’m listening to John William’s Theme from Schindler’s List, which has to have the most haunting Cello solo by Yitzack Pearlman I’ve ever heard. Haunting…
Ever transplanted a bush? The landscape development continues – at least all of the grass and crap is now torn out, the new shapes are done, and the large bush (I have forgotten what it is) has been relocated. Next weekend comes the $1000 bush and ground cover purchase. As for now, my fucking back is killing me.
This is hilarious. Security? Amazon Scam. A “clever” author of a $3 Self Help PDF has developed a program to put his book in as a recommendation 12 times, on every single top seller at Amazon. As a result he is now the #3 best seller on Amazon. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]