Amen Cindy...: "'I know that the Camp Casey movement is going to end the war in Iraq,' Sheehan said, adding that no other families should have to suffer the loss of a relative. She led the crowd in chanting 'Not one more!'"

Obedience is the test of Faith

Who is Cindy Sheehan: "Before the war in Iraq, Cindy Sheehan was no rebel. The mother of four was a youth minister at St. Mary's Catholic Church, in quiet, conservative Vacaville.
But when Sheehan's son Casey, 24, was killed in Iraq on April 4, 2004, her world lurched out of orbit. In the sleepless days and nights that followed, Sheehan tapped into the anti-war movement on the Internet, looking for answers.
'Sometimes I get up in the mornings and I turn on my computer,'' she told me when I met her in February at a peace vigil in Benicia, 'and my husband comes home at 5, and I'm still there in my pajamas.''
Back then, it would have been impossible to imagine that the quiet mother from Vacaville would be challenging President Bush in a quixotic vigil outside his ranch in Crawford, Texas. She wants the commander in chief to explain the 'noble cause' for which her son died. "

GooOS, the Google Operating System (kottke.org): "Google isn't worried about Yahoo! or Microsoft's search efforts...although the media's focus on that is probably to their advantage. Their real target is Windows. Who needs Windows when anyone can have free unlimited access to the world's fastest computer running the smartest operating system? Mobile devices don't need big, bloated OSes...they'll be perfect platforms for accessing the GooOS. Using Gnome and Linux as a starting point, Google should design an OS for desktop computers that's modified to use the GooOS and sell it right alongside Windows ($200) at CompUSA for $10/apiece (available free online of course). Google Office (Goffice?) will be built in, with all your data stored locally, backed up remotely, and available to whomever it needs to be (SubEthaEdit-style collaboration on Word/Excel/PowerPoint-esque documents is only the beginning). Email, shopping, games, music, news, personal publishing, etc.; all the stuff that people use their computers for, it's all there."

EPFL NEWS :: Service Presse et Information: "A team of researchers from the Ecole
Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL) has successfully demonstrated, for
the first time, that it is possible to control the speed of light both
slowing it down and speeding it up in an optical fiber, using off-the-shelf
instrumentation in normal environmental conditions. Their results, to be
published in the August 22 issue of Applied Physics Letters, could have
implications that range from optical computing to the fiber-optic telecommunications
industry. "

We should all need one.
"Bill Moyer, 73, wears a 'Bullshit Protector' flap over his ear while President George W. Bush, on screen at rear, addresses the Veterans of Foreign Wars at their 106th convention Monday, Aug. 22, 2005, in Salt Lake City. Moyer served during WWII, Korea and Vietnam. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)"