I haven’t much felt like writing, so I’ll keep this short and sweet. I am absolutely appalled at John McCain’s choice of vice presidential candidate. Although there’s never been any doubt that I’m voting for Barack Obama (except for a brief dalliance with Mike Gravel), I’d respected McCain much more than G.W. and even sort […]
I’ve been following Italy’s somewhat fascist attempts to block The Pirate Bay and today, wrote a blog post on the subject for the OpenNet blog. Before adding the company’s logo to my post, I sent a quick query via the website to confirm that it was permissible to use it. Peter Sunde, co-founder of The […]
Hooray! 36-year-old Moroccan Jaouad Gharib just became the second Moroccan to win a medal at this year’s Olympic Games (Hasna Benhassi was the first, with a bronze in the women’s 800m). Gharib, from Khenifra, didn’t start running until he was 22 and is known for constantly fiddling with his shirt, tucking and untucking it, during […]