There’s an Economist article on the conflict between Nokia and Microsoft in the mobile phone arena.

What’s the difference between crime and terrorism? What’s the difference between crime and a hate crime? The effect is clearly different- terrorism and hate crimes are used to influence people beyond the scope of the crime itself. But can you define terrorism and hate crimes in a way that is useful in making fair laws? Is there any way to do this without criminalizing the state of mind the person was in when the crime was comitted? There are degrees of murder based on intent, could there be degrees of crime that included hate crimes? How can it be proved that a person intended to commit a hate crime if they deny it?

Anyway, I’m thinking about big issues today or something.

Next: What is love? Who invented liquid paper and why?

The ever-so-cool Sara Ryan has a blog!

I wish I could read French better, because this site about Tintin parodies, pastiches and pirates looks really neat! Also, check out the nifty masthead and background picture.

Sure, a history of the changing face of Michael Jackson might seem to be harmless websurfing fun, but then you are taken on a train ride to horror town. And while looking at this, someone informed me that he is taking frightening public liberties with the safety of his child. Ew.

A surprise bit of actual info in the middle of the makeover of the site: the new book of the day is “Make Over Your Man: The Woman’s Guide to Dressing Any Man in Her Life” by Lloyd Boston. Because the vast majority of men (estimated by scientists at approximately 90%) care far less about their clothing than the women who live with them. Unfortunately, since it is not written by a member or a woman who lives with one of that 90%, there is no chapter on how exactly you should go about convincing an adult male to play dress-up.

I hope that the Greymatter blog software will help this blog be happy and grow. I will also be playing with various options to make it prettier as well. More to come!