This is the first clear and concise explanation I've ever read. I didn't realize they did their magic using PC's (pigeon clusters). Page and Brin experimented with numerous avian motivators before settling on a combination of linseed and flax (lin/ax) that not only offered superior performance, but could be gathered…
This, from the Associated Press: In a triple setback for conservatives, South Dakota rejected a law that would have banned virtually all abortions, Arizona became the first state to defeat an amendment to ban gay marriage and Missouri approved a measure backing stem cell research. Perhaps the voters are expressing…
Why is the White House afraid to show Bush's 2003 aircraft carrier "Mission Accomplished speech" in its full glory? Why has the video available on the White House site been so obviously hacked? Maybe the answer is best shown through statistics: At Mission Accomplished Since Mission Accomplished U.S. Troops wounded 542 21,077…
I know this is offbeat, but some of these photos are compelling. I hope the photographers are OK.
Andrew Sullivan uses a Barack Obama's interview on the meaning of religion as a launching point for a recent post. Here are Obama's words: "I think this is the historical moment we're in — we have come to define religion in absolutist, fundamentalist terms. So to be a believer is to be…