Cowboy Logic

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. [...]

Please send your letters of support to: benedictxvi-at-vatican.va
To the Holy Father,
Thank you for your courage in speaking forthrightly and for inviting members of the Islam faith to constructive engagement. I respect your right, and the right of all Christians to speak favorably about our religion and to invite others to peaceful and meaningful discussion [...]

Ray Lane of venture capital titan, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield Byers, has posted a compelling essay on his “7 Laws for the New Software Landscape”. It’s an excellent piece, and worth reading in its entirety.
But the key messages are delivered in laws 2, 5, and 7. And all of them have to do with [...]

Rod Boothby of Innovation Creators has a typically thoughtful entry on the changing nature of software, in particular the selling of software to large enterprises. The rise of Software as a Service has profound implications for end-users and for IT departments.
The key to selling software and making money is to follow the “KISS” principle, [...]

Michelle Malkin rightly expressed outrage over the ridiculous dress standards of the federal air marshals. More than a year later, it does seem that someone was listening:
The armed undercover officers who protect U.S. airlines against attack no longer have to fear being overdressed. They’ve been told they can ditch their suits for outfits [...]

A Pacific Blue flight bound to Sydney received a threat and was escorted into Sydney airport, where it landed safely. However, the passengers on the plane were forced to wait while the plane was held away from the terminal and searched for an alleged bomb, or other device.
All passengers were released and, apparently, no [...]

After nearly a decade of lurid press, we find that evidently there really was an intruder responsible for the JonBenet Ramsey murder.

Nerves are raw since the exposure of the latest terror threat in England and the subsequent enhanced security measures both in the U.S. and abroad.
However, the event of today, has been ruled an unruly, claustrophic passenger. Earlier reports that she was carrying Vaseline, a screwdriver, matches, and a note about Al Qaeda were denied [...]

A home in England was ransacked by a marauding squirrel. I blame international terrorism.
Crazed squirrel ransacks house

First Things — never a publication to shy away from tough issues — has a commentary on the physics of the resurrection. Stephen Barr holds that it’s a tough problem, even for God.
…the resurrection of the body involves “God’s reassembling at least some of the numerically same particles that once were in our living [...]