CrooksandLiars.com just gets better every day and here is further proof. Unless you’ve been living under a rock these past few weeks, you should know that the Pakistani president dictator has declared martial law and assumed power, imprisoning opponents and so on, as these mad despots are bound to do from time to time in [...]

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I’m sitting in the cafeteria at SFU, waiting for my girlfriend, making a move in Scrabble online. Just a few minutes ago I’d realized that I waste too much time and energy hating religion, it’s just not worth it. As I sit there, basking in my newfound tolerance, I’m approached by two strangers. They walk [...]

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Covert Ops, by James E. Parker Jr. is about the largest CIA operation ever mounted, and one that flew under the world’s radar because of the media obsession with next-door Vietnam. It is an entertaining book, well written, with down-to-earth snippets of life as a CIA trainee and then officer in the field. Parker writes [...]

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If you don’t own any decent diagramming products, never fear. Check out these two webapps that do the job and let you save the drawing to your computer after you’re done. The first one requires a signup and is therefore, not as appealing as the latter. They let you do everything from UML to floor [...]

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