NYT: Learning From the Sin of Sodom

http://mobile.nytimes.com/article;jsessionid=5E6EE0F2621272690FC2365A5191FB65.w5?a=558533&single=1&f=28&sub=Columnist

"A growing number of conservative Christians are explicitly and self-critically acknowledging that to be "pro-life" must mean more than opposing abortion."

Sophisticated Review Fraud Hits TripAdvisor

http://beatofhawaii.com/sophisticated-review-fraud-hits-tripadvisor/

"On a small scale, the photo example above points to a job offer to sculpt fraudulent TripAdvisor reviews. You won't find hotel marketers offering these services on Google. They use other, less traceable means to engage prospective properties. It is hard to imagine many hotels which wouldn't at least want to listen to such a potentially lucrative ploy."

AP Mobile News story - Worst rush-hour spot in county goes to … 78E at Barham

http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_8545/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=pmqMfThu

And...I-15 N will experience delays at Citricado thru the end of next year (2011)???!!!

http://apacificview.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-we-really-get-up-to-at-summit.html

Astronomer's comments on the Bud Light "Asteroid" Super Bowl commercial:

The most fundamental [inaccuracy] is that I know no astronomer or astrophysicist who drinks Bud Light.

NYT: Microsoft's Creative Destruction

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/opinion/04brass.html

Internal competition is common at great companies. It can be wisely encouraged to force ideas to compete. The problem comes when the competition becomes uncontrolled and destructive. At Microsoft, it has created a dysfunctional corporate culture in which the big established groups are allowed to prey upon emerging teams, belittle their efforts, compete unfairly against them for resources, and over time hector them out of existence. It's not an accident that almost all the executives in charge of Microsoft's music, e-books, phone, online, search and tablet efforts over the past decade have left.

Senators Warned of Terrorist Attack on U.S. by July - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/us/politics/03intel.html

But Mr. Blair began his annual threat testimony before Congress by saying that the threat of a crippling attack on telecommunications and other computer networks was growing, as an increasingly sophisticated group of enemies had "severely threatened" the sometimes fragile systems undergirding the country's information infrastructure."Malicious cyberactivity is occurring on an unprecedented scale with extraordinary sophistication," he told the committee.His emphasis on the threat points up the growing concerns among American intelligence officials about the potentially devastating results of a coordinated attack on the nation's technology apparatus, sometimes called a "cyber-Pearl Harbor."

He said that the surge in cyberattacks, including the penetration of Google's servers from inside China, was a "wake-up call" for those who dismissed the threat of computer warfare. "Sensitive information is stolen daily from both government and private-sector networks, undermining confidence in our information systems, and in the very information these systems were intended to convey," Mr. Blair said.