Jon Henke over at Q and O points out a bit of malicious piffle by Daniel Lyons appearing in Forbes magazine:
Web logs are the prized platform of an online lynch mob spouting liberty but spewing lies, libel and invective. Their potent allies in this pursuit include Google and Yahoo.
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Blogs started a few years [...]

Yes, I’m still alive, although not posting much. I’m taking the GRE on Thursday, and in an effort to soak up as much vocab. and mathematical information as possible in preparation for said exam, I’ve taken on a fairly reclusive lifestyle in the past few days.
So… no posting. And there won’t be any until Thursday [...]

An Indonesian court (Indonesia being a country that will, apparently, bend over backward to appease its Islamic populace) has recently reduced the sentence of Abu Bakar Bashir, a key figure in the attacks on Bali in 2002. In a recent interview, he explained the conditions of peace from his perspective:
SA: What can the West, especially [...]