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December 3, 2006

Journalism Imitates Art, Badly [Dan Collins]

Ex-spy’s poisoning reads like a thriller It’s a murder mystery filled with intrigue reminiscent of the Cold War — there’s a retired Russian spy poisoned by a radioactive substance, a secret dossier, a slain investigative journalist and a shadowy fugitive billionaire. But the story of the agonizing death of Alexander Litvinenko is an up-to-the-minute tale of politics, power and betrayal. And the final chapter of this spy thriller has not

Another Papist-Bashing Event [Dan Collins]

at the BBC’s “Have Your Say”: What impact will the Pope’s Turkey visit have? How important is the Pope’s visit? The Pope has wrapped up his trip to Turkey by saying Mass in a Catholic cathedral in Istanbul, and issuing a plea for freedom of religion in Turkey. The four-day visit was seen as an attempt to repair the damage his comments on Islam in September caused across the Muslim

Capitalist Limerick [Dan Collins]

In the low-tax Swiss canton of Zug, Lived a man up whose ass dwelt no bug; Folks asked, would he care For a new derriere? “No!” answered the insolent thug.

Any computer gurus out there?

As many of you know, I’m a bit of a film buff—and my DVD collection contains thousands of titles.  So I’m wondering:  is it feasible to build a media server that can hold that many DVDs on a hard drive array (I figure I’d probably need 15-20 tb)?  If so, how would I go about it, and what other equipment would I need to operate / organize the server?  I