Who is Osama Bin Laden?

Osama Bin Laden is top of US President Bush's most wanted list, but to many young people in the Muslim world, he is a hero.
He is wanted in connection with a number of atrocities, including the 1998 bombing of two US embassies in East Africa and - most notoriously - the attacks on New York and Washington on 11 September 2001.
Since then, his al-Qaeda organisation has been linked indirectly with bombings on the island of Bali in Indonesia and its capital Jakarta, as well as with devastating suicide attacks in Casablanca, Riyadh and Istanbul.

A Student’s Primer on Terrorism

Exactly one month after the following lesson plan was first posted on the Internet, we have received many comments from...

Wine and Pizza

Wine and pizza tonight. This is the first time I’ve made a crust which didn’t suck. It was really easy,...

Terabyte drive platters by 2010

Scotts Valley (CA) - Seagate will use a new technology to create the foundation for future harddrives. The company believes that its Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording will allow area densities of up to 50 terabit or more than 700 times the density of today's harddrive platters. Seagate plans to debut HAMR in 2010 with a density of about 1 terabit.

Why You Should Choose Microsoft Word Over vi

In a major new case study sure to grab the attention of Pointy Haired Bosses everywhere, Microsoft announced today that the Total Cost of Ownership of Microsoft Word is 94% lower than that of the open-source equivalant, vi.
"There's simply no comparison," said a Microsoft researcher. "We cannot believe that anybody would seriously use something so primitive as vi in this day and age. The same can be said about all Linux distributions, which universally bundle vi."

Woman faked daughter’s sickness

MARYSVILLE, Ohio (AP) - A woman imprisoned for faking her daughter's leukemia to gain thousands of dollars in donations said she concocted the scheme to keep her husband from leaving.
Teresa Milbrandt told the Columbus Dispatch for a story in Sunday's editions that she regrets what she did, which included shaving her daughter Hannah's head and giving her sleeping pills to make it look like she was undergoing chemotherapy. She also made Hannah wear a protective mask and put her in counselling to prepare for death.

Thai Leader’s Daughter in Fast Food

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) – If Paetongtarn Shinawatra thought she could keep a low profile Monday on her first day working...

Note to self

Too much bike-riding for the first day. My legs are killing me… But I don’t regret the experience. Going to...

Awesome Day Today

Sunny, warm, windy. Aside from the windy part, a perfect cycling day. Going to finish the tuning up of my...

More Updated

OK, now all the Missinglinks pages are updated, and have passed my rudimentary QA tests. Curse me for using Source...