24 Jan 2008
Afghan 'blasphemy' death sentence

Let me see if I get this: we went into Afghanistan to eliminate the religious fanatics who encouraged the 9/11 attacks on the United States, and to free the Afghan people from their oppressive grip.

It seems as though, nearly seven years later, we've not accomplished either goal.

A journalist in Afghanistan is sentenced to death for distributing blasphemous material.

(link) [BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition]

07:15 /Politics | 0 comments | permanent link

Learning From Failure

It's easy to look at the headlines (and the shelves in stores) and see the success stories of the technology world. But it can be real instructive to look back on products we forgot, or almost forgot (everybody remembers the infamous Newton, even though hardly anybody owned one), and see where things went wrong.

The Apple Macintosh, 24 years old as of Jan. 24, is one of the great computer success stories of all time. But Apple has had its share of duds and flops, as this gallery of failed Apple products shows.

(link) [Wired: Top Stories]

07:12 /Technology | 0 comments | permanent link