OK, here's a great article from Slate talking about all of those claims that "it costs the US Economy $..." however much each year for some stupid thing that obviously doesn't cost the US Economy however much a year.

Apple's Airport is the best home router out there, according to the PC Magazine Reader's Choice for Home Routers. Of particular note: the Airport's win marks the first time in the survey that a wireless router has won the prize.

So, for reasons involving the Virginia Department of Taxation, I found myself digging through some old web sites for Inter.net this morning. As a part of this, I needed to make captures of the Library of Congress's web captures of Inter.net's 9/11 site, MyStory.Inter.net. As I needed to make captures, I had to sit through each page loading and basically ended up reading 135 individual stories of the 9/11 events and their effect. What I found was uplifting and disturbing.

The Washington Post is reporting on a study from the Census Bureau to be published today indicating that 125 million Americans (64% of those 18 and older) voted in the 2004 elections. The article contains the obligatory statistical breakdowns, which are all pretty much as you would expect.

iRobot, makers of the popular Roomba vacuum robot, have announced that they will be releasing Scooba before the Holidays to vacuum, mop, and dry hard surface floors.

This was possibly a victory for good journalism, maybe a victory for the bloggers, and perhaps just a sign that the guy who gets elected gets his way with the media. I'm not entirely sure which, but the Washington Post has an article about CBS's firing of 4 staffers related to the Dan Rather (now gone himself) 60-Minutes program about George W. Bush's time in the National Guard.

An article from InfoWorld notes that the FCC has approved (PDF) Friday a software defined radio made by Vanu. .

It is "with a heavy heart" that the Economist has announced that they have endorsed Kerry for the US Presidential election. A friend of mine points out that if they were going to flip-flop, that'd be the right way to go. Keeping in the same line, if they were going to stay the course no matter what the evidence, they could have endorsed Bush.

I don't do a lot of real book reviews, because I do a lot of my "reading" on my iPod. However, when I heard about Churchill's Folly:How Winston Churchill Created Modern Iraq by Christopher Catherwood and heard the author interviewed, I was intrigued.

Now, up front I'll state that I don't read a lot of history (although that's starting to change), but I've read so many political books this season that I wanted to sink my teeth into something that wasn't about Kerry/Bush/the current Iraq war/Halliburton/etc.

In short, this book is an excellent read and contains a lot of information that I think is essential to having any understanding of what is going on in modern-day Iraq as well as the rest of the Middle East.

Both the Bush and Kerry campaigns have talked about outsourcing as a problem. Bush wants to keep business taxes low and regulation under control in order to keep jobs in the US; Kerry wants to penalize companies for taking their jobs overseas.

Today, in the Wall Street Journal, Lou Gerstner (you remember him, he ran that small, three-initialed tech company for a few years) has a good editorial (may require registration or subscription) talking about the need to improve education in order to create a workforce that actually is capable of performing the jobs.