April 03, 2003

English
Well, what do you know? Al Jazeera seems to have recovered from its DoS attack. Now we can put Al Jazeera and Fox News in a jar and make em fight.
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One more
Jack Beatty: A Country of Fear. Executive branch promulgation of fear being my main pet peeve. Last politics-related link for at least a week. Promise.
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Names
This is kind of unbelievable. There's actually a running debate about what to call the new tunnels. Wasn't there pretty widespread agreement on this already? The usual suspects in the sidebar are on the case. One hopes that the likelihood of the following passage is ebbing:

In my next novel, set in the 2020s, the Big Dig is still going, a kind of permanent revolution in earthworks, a neverending state of traffic emergency.
But won't our hydrogen powered hovercars be able to get around without tunnels anyway?
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