A Ride To Remember
War Emblem led from start to finish to capture the 128th running of the Kentucky Derby

Infighting at the top
As a former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, former national security adviser and now secretary of state, Colin Powell (news - web sites) doesn't like being micromanaged.

But that's the way Powell feels these days after his latest trip to the Middle East, which yielded scant results, a senior administration official says.

Thinking Ahead (Bet on Gore in '04)
"Whatever pundits and the Washington establishment think," Al Gore's nomination for president in 2004 "is likely for three reasons: history, ideology, and coverage," UPI's James Chapin says. And "if Gore and Bush ran against each other again, the past suggests another close race, with a slight edge for Gore." But the San Francisco Chronicle says a new poll shows that "nearly half of California's Democrats would prefer someone other than Al Gore at the top of their party's ticket in 2004," and "52 percent of registered voters said they would be inclined to re-elect Bush."

We can all make predictions, sure some are based on logical reasoning but as I've said before, the roulette wheel has no memory and the ball will fall where it may.

Via (PoliticalStrikes.com)

Webloggers Take note
I always thought that the issue of whether it's an infringement of copyright law to link to articles on other websites was moot since U.S. District Judge Harry Hupp's ruling on March 30, 2000, that "Hyperlinking does not itself involve a violation of the Copyright Act,"

But now the Dallas Morning News is demanding that someone stop linking directly to their individual stories.
The owner of BarkingDogs.org is locked in a battle against the Belo media corporation, owner of The Dallas Morning News, which sent him a legalistic letter this week demanding that BarkingDogs.org remove all "deep links" to the DallasNews.com site.

"Deep links" point to specific content within a site, allowing readers to bypass the site's front page. Instead of linking to a specific article within The Dallas Morning News's site, Seems that Belo wants publisher Avi Adelman to only link to the site's main page.

Marine microbe sets miniaturization records

Researchers have found a strange and tiny new group of microbes living on another microbe at the bottom of the sea. The organisms are about 400 billionths of a metre across - more than six million would fit on the head of a pin.

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When Women's Thoughts Stray, Men Pay Attention

A candlelit dinner, fresh flowers, an unexpected gift -- all the elements of a fine romance? Or are they part of an evolutionary strategy developed by men to keep track of their women and keep them away from other men during fertile periods?

Research to be published in the upcoming issue of Proceedings B, a British Royal Society publication, indicates that women tend to be more interested in sex, in particular with men other than their primary romantic partners, when they are ovulating.

In response, their male partners appear to sense this and are more attentive, keeping a close eye on their women during this time.

The study by scientists in the departments of Psychology and Biology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque examined changes in women's sexual interests in men (primary partners and others) and men's efforts to track their partners' whereabouts as a function of women's fertility status.

The police State
"Murder, torture and imprisonment - these are the standard tools of repressive regimes. But if you imagine that human societies have a monopoly on such tactics, think again. Social insects perfected the police state long before people got in on the act.

On the surface, beehives and ant nests seem to be model societies, with each individual striving for the common good. But maintaining this social order sometimes calls for brutal tactics."