Category: Paleoblogs

  • The Looming Pitched Battle for the City of Kirkuk

    I’ve been following the thread of the story of the Iraqi city of Kirkuk, and it seriously looks as if in late 2007 that city is going to move Iraq into a new, bloodier, level of warfare: pitched battle for territory, with full-scale armies on the attack. It is hard to believe, even for me:…

  • If you demand it, they will come

    Brian Dear from EVDB wrote me recently to bring to my attention the Eventful Demand service on Eventful.com (the event-planning website powered by his EVDB service). He is justifiably proud of this new feature: We premiered it at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology conference in San Diego in March. Eventful Demand is a set of tools…

  • The Fine Print on Direct Talks

    NYT, 5/29/06 “To avert sanctions, Iran has hinted at readiness to limit the number of centrifuge machines producing enriched uranium…. “Diplomats…say that Iranian engineers stopped pouring a raw form of uranium, called UF6, into arrays of centrifuges after just 12 days….the Iranians kept the empty centrifuges spinning, as is standard practice because slowing the delicate…

  • Political spam

    I don’t know what to make of this spam. Registering to vote put me on this list? From: Voter Emailing Company To: xian Date: May 24 You are receiving this email as a registered voter. If you would prefer not to hear from us by e-mail, please click on the link at the bottom of…

  • If you like words and politics and history

    This may blow your mind.

  • Mr. Dylan on Mr. Cool J

    In case you missed mention of it, Bob Dylan is DJ on a weekly “Theme Time Radio Hour” on satellite radio. This was his intro to LL Cool J’s “Mama Said Knock You Out” on the show with a Mother’s Day theme. (II’ll put in some line breaks.) Here’s LL Cool J Don’t call it…