Google buys Blogger!
<a href= "http://www.evhead.com/archives/2003_02_01_archive_default.asp#104537225413624191">Holy crap is right. <a href= "http://weblog.siliconvalley.com/column/dangillmor/archives/000802.shtml#000802">Dan Gillmore speculates that Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL will also be buying or building their own weblogging systems. Congratulations to Evan Williams and Pyra team. Five people supporting 1.1 million webloggers? Amazing.
When in doubt, don't kill people.
That's what <a href= "http://joi.ito.com/archives/2003/02/15/my_position_on_warblogging.html#004088">Joi Ito says and I have a hard time disagreeing, but I sure as hell don't know what to do. I listened to the U.N. deliberations in full yesterday and found myself agreeing with just about everything that was said by the French, the Brits, the Russians, and the U.S. That is how messed up I am.
I've been reading warbloggers, peacebloggers, <a href= "http://pages.prodigy.net/thomasn528/blog/2003_02_09_newsarcv.html#89055906">peacebloggers turned warbloggers, the liberal media, the Moonie press, and even <a href= "http://www.boosman.com/blog/2003_02_01_blogarchive.html#90313256">pseudo-bloggers ;-) My mind is a muddled mess. I'm glad I'm not the one making the decisions, but I sure do wish we had somebody other than Shrub, Jr. with the final word.I see London.
All this B.S. about France being ungrateful is just plain silly. As Russell points out, we'd be driving on the left and drinking warm beer if not for France.
Oil War.
<img src="http://rollerweblogger.org/resources/roller/oilwar-sm.jpg" alt="collage of Simulations Publications, Inc. OIL WAR game">
The above image is not a political commentary, it is a collage that I created of a wargame that I played as a kid, Oil War: a "game of hypothetical warfare in the Middle Eastern Oil states" by Simulations Publications, Inc.