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The Los Angeles Times online edition has a very interesting article called When writing truth is a crime in which Tim Rutten talks about the reaction (or lack thereof) from the American mainstream media towards the dead and kidnapping of non-american reporters in Iraq. We all have read and heard about Jill Carroll the reporter [...]

William J. Bennett and Alan M. Dershowitz come up with strong reasons to call the american press, in more polite terms, hypocritical and biggoted. In their article on the Washington Post, A Failure of the Press, they talk about tha failings of the press when dealing with the different religious sensitibilites in an evenhanded manner. [...]

Ok, I haven’t been using this for fanboying stuff, but….I want one of these Powerdesk! These things look awesome, and I’ve always wanted to integrate a computer inside a desk…and these ones are made in style. The pics in the product description go from "ok, that’s nice" to "damn! this is sweet!" so don’t skip [...]

Well, the sixth and last book of the “Belisarius Saga” is out…and it’s a worthy ending to one of the best what-if SF series written in the last few decades.
The series starts with “An Oblique Approach”, in which we get to meet the main characters of the story:

Belisarius: Our hero :) Based on the general [...]