http://battleangel.org Tell us what you despise; by this are you truly known. Wed, 14 May 2008 08:26:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Thomas Friedman hits his head, writes something useful, seems to espouse Obama. Nearly apologizes for past warmongering, cheerleading. Close shave, Friedman, watch the mustache. They are not only tired of nation-building in Iraq and in Afghanistan, with so little to show for it. They sense something ... http://battleangel.org/2008/05/05/thomas-friedmans-new-clothes/ Sweden is doing alright in fact, at least considering the relatively low population density. With an average broadband speed of 4.9Mbps, the US is being Chariots of Fire-d by South Korea (49.5Mbps), Japan (63.6Mbps), Finland (21.7Mbps), Sweden (16.8Mbps), and France (17.6Mbps), among others. Not only that, ... http://battleangel.org/2008/05/04/us-15th-in-broadband-ranking/ Because not everything is about "piracy" you know. Here is more insight into why the market is failing. ANYBODY wondering why PC gaming is being slapped around by the console market need only look to the release notes for the latest AMD Catalyst drivers, version 8.4, ... http://battleangel.org/2008/04/17/sad-state-of-pc-gaming/ Anders Lago, social democratic mayor of Södertälje, Sweden, testified before the U.S. congress on Thursday. Odd as it may seem. The topic and the reason for the invitation by the Helsinki Commission was the Iraqi refugee crisis. Particularly the uneven distribution of refugees and the selfish behavior of the ... http://battleangel.org/2008/04/11/iraqi-refugee-policies/ Swedish (technically French) vodka maker Absolut is running an ad campaign in Mexico that is ruffling some feathers north of the border, by showing the U.S.-Mexico as it was before the war of 1848. America is clearly showing its true colors of hate and one might wonder why exactly ... http://battleangel.org/2008/04/06/in-an-absolut-world/ Feeling more secure yet? Woman forced by TSA to remove nipple rings. It's lucky she didn't have grillz I suppose. Or a pacemaker or some other implant. Or even more intimate piercings. The Transportation Security Administration said Friday its officers at a Texas airport appear to have properly followed ... http://battleangel.org/2008/03/29/nipple-ring-search-procedures/ I must admit I have given the U.S. election a little more attention than usual, even though it hasn't been showing much in any of my journals. It is clear that at least temporarily, more Americans than usual have been awoken from their slumber. This euphoric state and thirst for ... http://battleangel.org/2008/03/28/the-real-us-election/ No "war criminal lives here" signs mandatory outside of Crawford ranch as of yet. But I digress. Rupert Murdoch's The Sun is there to document of course. The homemade signs reading "A Sex Offender Lives Here" are posted on all four sides of Leroy Schad's white house in his central Kansas ... http://battleangel.org/2008/03/27/sex-offender-to-keep-signs-on-car-and-house/ Good times ... score one for the free world. Shouldn't have flown so close to the sun now should you. The unpopularity of the United States has IT users in foreign countries happy to use open-source software, Red Hat President/CEO Jim Whitehurst said at the InfoWorld Open Source Business ... http://battleangel.org/2008/03/26/open-source-benefits-from-us-unpopularity/ The FBI is increasingly resorting to "rickrolling" internet users by putting up fake content to snare what they claim to be presumptive criminals. These pranks are commonplace now, but be careful of what you click on and from whom. If that link points to anything even pretending to be ... http://battleangel.org/2008/03/24/perversion-of-justice/