Writing for the Web: "Tackle web-content writing like a journalist would. If you call yourself a content writer and haven't read a college newswriting textbook, then you are depriving yourself. The newspaper "formula" works on the web with slight modifications."
Top Ten Mac OS X Tips for Unix Geeks: "So, I'm offering the top ten tips that I gathered while working on the book. These tips will show you the differences between Mac OS X and other flavors of Unix; help you find the bits that resemble the Unix you are used to; and even feather your nest with XFree86 and ports of popular open source applications. "
Al Qaeda nukes are reality, intelligence says: "Soon after September 11 last year, the notion that al Qaeda might have nuclear weapons was largely dismissed by intelligence professionals. It is, however, a working assumption in security circles now that the terror group does have nuclear capabilities. Al Qaeda's secret nuclear stash is assumed to be somewhere in Afghanistan, although finding it is proving to be as hard as locating Osama bin Laden. The first clue came during Christmas, when low-grade uranium-238 was discovered in tunnels near a former al Qaeda base in Kandahar, Afghanistan."
Healthy Halloween: "When I was growing up, there was a house in our neighbourhood that gave out cans of pop and full-size chocolate bars. At the time I thought they must have been eccentric millionaires to display such reckless generosity. I would like children to think that I am a reckless and eccentric millionaire. "
Hiding in the FedEx logo: I will never look at the FedEx logo the same.
Wellstone dies in plane crash: "Two-term Democratic U.S. Sen. Paul Wellstone of Minnesota died in a small-plane crash Friday afternoon, less than two weeks before Election Day."
Two Men Arrested in Sniper Case: "Two men wanted for questioning in the wave of deadly sniper attacks were arrested early Thursday after they were found sleeping in their car at a Maryland rest stop, authorities said. The arrests raised hopes of a conclusion to the intensive and often frustrating investigation of the shootings that have killed 10 people and critically wounded three others since Oct. 2 in the Washington, D.C., area."
Gunmen seize Moscow theater: "Gunmen identifying themselves as Chechens took several hundred hostages inside a Moscow theater Wednesday night, threatening to kill some of the hostages and telling police they had mined portions of the building. "
Iraq - The Case Against Preemptive War: "The administration's claim of a right to overthrow regimes it considers hostile is extraordinary and one the world will soon find intolerable."