Only one person in England has ever sent so much post that a pillar-box was placed outside his house.
This piece is only of marginal interest in itself, but it illustrates an interesting constitutional development. The Constitution of the US provides the President with the power to veto legislation passed by congress. As usually understood, veto powers reject or accept measures in their entirety. The Bush administration, however, has made much use of signing [...]
This review of a program for the Mac called FileBrowse pointed me in the direction of an excellent application. I haven’t yet decided whether I will use it permanently, but thirty-day trial periods are wonderful things.
The military on television and films is depicted using entirely custom-written software, often on custom-written operating systems. The truth, of course, is more mundane, but of all the technologies that the internet has made possible the one I would least have expected to be picked to run a modern war is Internet Relay Chat. Well, [...]
In America, it would be unthinkable for a pregnant woman to drink. To be seen doing so in public might even invite hostile comment from perfect strangers, and the absolute rule against drinking is regularly alluded to in American popular culture. Yet in other countries the rule is hardly so absolute. As the BBC notes, [...]
The Washington post hardly ever gives context for its stories – in fact, I’ve never seen them put a paragraph like this after a story, until today: Editor’s Note: How much effort the Bush administration made in going after Osama bin Laden before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, became an issue last week after [...]
Off the record
Can one speak ‘off the record’?