Picture of mistreated prisoner.

It's a good thing the American troops saved the Iraqi people from Saddam, as they clearly are capable of doing a better job themselves.  This is a picture of a prisoner being mistreated after being bitten by a dog.

Norway is fortunate enough to have oil.. should we be worried?  Get our rabies shots now?

Read an article on Slashdot yesterday which said the Irish Presidency had managed to "secure a qualified majority for a counter-proposal to the software patents directive."

Seems like the Irish, with their IT capacity and 'newly magically transformed' economy are getting a bit grubby on the money.  Of course it's in their short term interest to make as much money off their capacity as possible, but that was a bad move I think.

I don't think software should be patentable unless it's truly original, and then only for a short period of time.  Things change, everybody is learning from everybody, and this will only lead to more secrecy, which ultimately will slow things down.  It'll give work to lawyers, but those we could've sent to Africa instead, having them grow food for some of the world's starving people.

Most of the innovations in the world have always come from either a person or small groups.  What we'll get with this patent crap is a lot of big, unwieldy companies punching each other in the face as they're busy beating each other to the patent office.  A lot of fighting, and little progress.

Bush is taking drugs to control his depression:

  http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4921.s...

"Dr. Frank diagnosed the President as a “paranoid meglomaniac” and “untreated alcoholic” whose “lifelong streak of sadism, ranging from childhood pranks (using firecrackers to explode frogs) to insulting journalists, gloating over state executions and pumping his hand gleefully before the bombing of Baghdad” showcase Bush’s instabilities."

I just read Fahrenheit 9/11 is becoming one of the most profitable movies of all time.  That's impressive for a movie that's causing a lot of political debate.

..is a movie about Hitler's last days. It's supposed to show the human side of Hitler, and has already caused quite a stir in Germany. I'll be checking it out, for sure:

  http://www.deruntergang-special.film.de/

Yes, just like the headline says. Kerry and Bush are tied in 3, and Bush leads slightly in the 4th:
 
 http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=ad...

I can only quote Beyonce on this one:

Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no

Go media!

I don't think it's right that the government of any country can take press material without any (clear) basis in the law, if you do as well, sign this: http://solidarity.indymedia.org.uk/