Pentagon Readies Propaganda: "The Pentagon is developing plans to provide news items, possibly even false ones, to foreign media organizations as part of a new effort to influence public sentiment and policy makers in both friendly and unfriendly countries, military officials said." Metafilter discussion here.

Rebuilding the Wright Flyer: "A century later, the modern investigators are struggling to see if, stripped of the benefits of all, or most, subsequent aviation know-how, such a cloth, wood and wire machine can be made to fly again." and the Slashdot discussion.

Coming to Switzerland: An inhabitable cloud whirling above a lake.

MovieCliches.com: "A list of the most annoying and common logic flaws and stereotypes found in movies."

If I haven't responded to your email yet, I'm sorry. I got about 500+ (non-list) messages this weekend.

Happy President's Day. No wonder the roads where so empty.

Good morning! No posts today. My server is going down in about 5 seconds. 4.. 3.. 2.. 1.. blink.

PayPalSucks.com: I can't say more.

The Times of India: "US aircraft over southern Afghanistan have scattered $100 bills tucked into envelopes bearing a picture of President George W. Bush, witnesses said on Thursday. Some of the envelopes were carried by the wind and fluttered to earth over the Pakistan border town of Chaman, sending people scrambling for the cash."

Cool list of words from other languages that don't have direct counterparts in English.