Google (the corporation that hosts this blog) has the motto “Do no evil”. How does that square with hiding the website of the Egyptian democratic reform movement? The Sandmonkey reports: It’s not bad enough that they had disabled Wael Abbas’ … Continue reading
It is often suggested, by dinner party jihadists, that terrorism is rooted in genuine grievances. The West’s foreign policies, especially in the Middle East and most particularly in Iraq, have cause resentment among Muslims, and this has spurred extremists to … Continue reading
I have just finished reading PJ’s commentary on Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations which came out, by a happy chance, shortly before I decided that as a great admirer of Smith I ought to actually, you know, read something he … Continue reading
Mark Steyn on Canada’s abandonment of civilised values. Ezra Levant describes how a Canadian government body became an instrument of clerical fascism: The first time I met the complainant, the radical Muslim imam Syed Soharwardy, was when I debated him … Continue reading
Bruce Schneier talking sense: … I run an open wireless network at home. There’s no password. There’s no encryption. Anyone with wireless capability who can see my network can use it to access the internet. To me, it’s basic politeness. … Continue reading
The Guardian: Now even if you don’t buy the idea that Facebook is some kind of extension of the American imperialist programme crossed with a massive information-gathering tool… You mean…. some people wouldn’t buy that idea?
Raedwald offers his thoughts on Ken Livingstone.
Perhaps I ought to apologise to Walter Williams for pasting such a lengthy quotation from the speech (.doc) he gave recently at Hillsdale College, but in fact my real problem was deciding where to stop. The whole thing is superb. … Continue reading
The Lamp/Wamp stack – Linux or Windows, the Apache webserver, MySQL and PHP, the structure behind most internet software, including most blogging platforms, is in a sudden state of flux. MySQL has been acquired by Sun. Sun has its own … Continue reading
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