Latest Developments in the Ongoing, Global, Cyber-war

ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — CNN was targeted Thursday by attempts to interrupt its news Web site, resulting in countermeasures that caused the service to be slow or unavailable to some users in limited areas of Asia…more

In a related story; www.news.com — Late Friday, leaders of the Revenge of the Flame called off a planned denial-of-service attack on CNN.com, according to The Dark Visitor, a Web site that follows Chinese computer hacker activity.

However, early Saturday morning, a post on The Dark Visitor contained detailed plans for various Revenge of the Flame participants, as though the attack were continuing.

Biggest grain exporters halt foreign sales

By Javier Blas in London, Isabel Gorst in Moscow and Lindsay Whipp in Tokyo
Published: April 15 2008 19:04 | Last updated: April 16 2008 02:37
The global food crisis intensified on Tuesday as Kazakhstan, one of the world’s biggest wheat exporters halted foreign sales and rice prices shot to a record high after Indonesia stopped its [...]

University of Maine Art

I found this post at Gateway Pundit. Apparently, it’s ok to walk on the symbol of a proud nation at the University of Maine. Outraged Veterans protested, but to no avail. The

author of the article writes,

This happened at the University in Maine yesterday, a friend of mine was there to film it. These art students did a project where they laid American flags on the floor of the student center for people to walk on.

Progress report – Sunday April 13, 2008

The weekend is nearly over, and I have to get back to work early in the morning. I’ve got a lot done; adding links, photo in the header, text and HTML in the sidbars, discovered the tabs at the top of the page! I’ve posted a few articles for folks to read, but really don’t have anything drafted for publication as the tech stuff took up all my time.

Do Law-makers go to far, to protect us from ourselves?

Do Law-makers go too far, to protect us from ourselves? Everything we own, do, or say has the potential of harm, or risk involved. Freedom assumes that risk exists, and demands that common sense dictate our notions of justice. Yet, it seems the ever-growing wave of zero-tolerance ( prohibition by another name ) has come [...]