Geeky, gothy, political sanskritist, dividing his time between writing (for fun) and moderating a MMORPG (for money). More about me...
Paul Graham: just keep replying to the emails, and you'll be fine [doesn't just apply to startups]
Martin O'Neill on inheritance tax. I agree completely with this article
Newish blogt on oil in Iraq
Videos from last year's CCC. So far I've only watched George's (which was excellent) and Joi's (which was less great than I'd expected, perhaps because I just don't care enough about MMORPGs)
Gender differences: a depressing and sometimes infuriating (but not idiotic) take on it.
American control of the Iraqi intelligence services. Hardly a surprise, but worth remembering
Iraqi militias control the power supplies, turning the electricity on and off to help their attacks.
From Profile of Cryptome's jya
Pat Kane has a nice little post on Tony Wilson.
Venture Communism: unable to defeat Capitalism, Berlin lefties throw up their hands, run efficient workers collectives to accumulate land and capital "which, in the endgame, will eventually allow the workers to buy the entire world from the Capitalists". I don't know whether to laugh, cry or applaud.
Fortean Times on Arthur Koestler, and his obsession with psionics.
Instapundit: are some Iraq decapitation stories fakes? If so, how many. And why?
Globalization is increasingly not corporate or governmental, but a fusion of the two (succinct WaPo op-ed)
The%20Secret%20Air%20War%20in%20Iraq. That which Sy Hersh hath predicted shall surely come to pass.