Boe! Valsspelers! At the height

Boe! Valsspelers! At the height of the summer, as talk of invading Iraq built in Washington like a dark, billowing storm, the US armed forces staged a rehearsal using over 13,000 troops, countless computers and $250m. Officially, America won and a rogue state was liberated from an evil dictator. What really happened is quite another …

Sprookjes van Grimm, maar dan

Sprookjes van Grimm, maar dan wel in niet-verdisneyde versie. Alhoewel. Bij Rapunzel geven ze de versie van de latere edities van Grimm: Die Zauberin merkte auch nichts davon [dat er elke avond een prins bij Rapunzel op bezoek kwam], bis einmal Rapunzel anfing und zu ihr sagte: “Sag Sie mir doch, Frau Gotel, wie kommt es …

The dirty little secret

The dirty little secret of content management. Dylan Tweney’s latest Business 2.0 column advises businesses to steer carefully between the six-figure CMS overkill solutions that thrived during the dotcom boom and the other end of the spectrum, reinventing the CMS wheel yourself in-house. I’ve been doing content management-related consulting for the last five years and …

Rocket Trail at Sunset Credit:

Rocket Trail at Sunset Credit: James W. Young ( TMO, JPL, NASA) Bright light from a setting Sun and pale glow from a rising Moon both contribute to this stunning picture of a rocket exhaust trail twisting and drifting in the evening sky. Looking west, the digital telephoto view was recorded from Table Mountain Observatory …

Salon rankings. Well, the

Salon rankings. Well, the race is on. Will I catch up to the (on vacation) Plan B blognovel to become the number two all-time Salon blog after Scott? Or will the Cowgirl lap me before I make it? For all I know I may have plateaued (that can’t be the right spelling) already. It’s embarassing …

Blijkbaar heeft Daschle ook zijn

Blijkbaar heeft Daschle ook zijn ballen teruggevonden nu Dole kritisch is voor Bush: […] increasingly over the course of the last several weeks, reports have surfaced which have increasingly led me to believe that, indeed, there are those who would politicize this war. I was given a report about a recommendation made by Matthew Dowd, …