From the New York Times Pakistani authorities said today that they had arrested a senior Al Qaeda operative suspected of orchestrating two assassination attempts against the Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Abu Faraj al-Libbi, described by some counterterrorism officials as the third-most senior leader in the Al Qaeda terrorist network, was arrested on Tuesday, the Pakistani information minister, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, said this afternoon. A native of Libya, Mr. Libbi

As of 1:35 PM EST today, protein wisdom is still being blocked by Websense.  This despite their response yesterday that the site would be re-classified, as noted here: The site you submitted has been reviewed and the categorization has been changed to Message Boards and Clubs. This update should be available in the next publication of the database. Apparently, the site was once again submitted to Websense as having adult

Kerouac:  “Right.  And then Ricky enters, exhausted, and shouts, ‘Hey Lucy, I’m hooooome‘—at which point Lucy comes out of the kitchen toking on some primo reefer and says something like, ‘Sure, you’re home physically, Babalu.  But where are you in your mind…?”

Next time, you might try a Rivest-Shamir-Adleman public key cipher (RSA), okay “Stevie”?¹ Authenticating the QRC requires a slightly more complex protocol, and I’m a busy man. Oh, and one other thing:  What in the fuck is a “slrrpi ngbag”? Amateur. **** ¹“In the RSA algorithm, a user R who wishes to receive messages chooses a large number N as a modulus, and a number E as an enciphering exponent.

To Sarah W, for the extraordinarily generous gift of the complete “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” on DVD! Between this and “The Sopranos”—which I watched for the first time on Sunday—I’m going to be quite happy for a couple of hours at the end of every day for quite some time. Thank you so much, Sarah. 

_________________________ Part I. Dalton: “Pain don’t hurt.” Nietzsche: “Truth is but a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms.” Dalton: “Uh huh.  And pain don’t hurt.” __________________________ Part II. Nietzsche:  “But thus do I counsel you, my friend: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.” Dalton: Nietzsche:  Dalton:  “I want you to be nice until it’s time to not be nice…?” Nietzsche:  “Not quite, no.  But I

I’m thinking I should post a picture of the cat.  Y’know—while the idea is still fresh and all…

From Websense: The site you submitted has been reviewed and the categorization has been changed to Message Boards and Clubs. This update should be available in the next publication of the database. How they could “review” a site written by a single person and conclude it a “message board” or “club” I have no idea, but so long as it gets me unblocked, I’m willing to live with it for

From the AP: A strain of polio that’s hit parts of Africa and the Middle East appears almost identical to one that has reached Indonesia, raising the prospect that a migrant worker may have brought it back to the world’s most populous Muslim nation, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. An 18-month-old girl in the West Java village of Girijaya was diagnosed with polio on April 21, becoming the first

From the BBC: Iraq’s parliament has sworn in the first Iraqi government since elections were held in January. Seven posts in Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari’s cabinet—including the defence and oil ministries – remain unfilled amid partisan haggling. The ethnic make-up of the cabinet—the first democratically elected government in more than 50 years—is considered to be crucial to building legitimacy. Well, it’s already legitimate, but I suppose we can forgive the