The Pentagon has cultivated “military analysts” in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the Bush administration’s wartime performance. read more | digg story

If you want to know what is ‘really’ happening in Iraq you got to listen to a correspondent who is assigned to Baghdad and lives there EVERY day. McClatchy and NPR are the ONLY two organizations with correspondents in Baghdad. Ask McClatchy’s Bureau Chief a question if you dare. read more | digg story

In the film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, Ben Stein poses as a “rebel” willing to stand up to the scientific establishment in defense of freedom and honest, open discussion of controversial ideas like intelligent design. But Expelled has some problems of its own with honest, open presentations of the facts about evolution, ID and its…

More often than not, guys interpret even friendly cues, such as a subtle smile from a gal, as a sexual come-on, and a new study discovers why: Guys are clueless. Further proof guys are morons when it comes to understanding and interpreting non-verbal communication. read more | digg story

it’s good to know that the government isn’t only illegally wiretapping the phones of regular american citizens, they are also illegally obtaining protected passport information from senators, both democrat AND republican (though the person who accessed mccain’s file was NOT fired… hmm) read more | digg story

What’s the best way to bury a press conference? Don’t invite the press. But if you’re the folks from Threat Level you’ll attend a government sponsored conference on Domestic Surveillance. Read now, the plans for the future of Fusion Centers. These are the cooperative offices where FBI, police, and yes even military officials can all…

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Not only can the FBI not be trusted to handle warrants for domestic wiretaps, they cannot even manage their own terrorist watch list. Over time the list has gotten longer, more full of errors, and more likely to inconvenience someone who is totally innocent. There is no procedure to manage the list over time, other…

Magnetic RAM (MRAM) from Freescale is seeing application finally in of all places small satellites. It may not make it to the desktop but it will be in satellites, weapon systems and engine compartments real soon now. When’s it going to make it to my iPhone? read more | digg story