Odds and ends...

[fajrdrako]

There have been some interesting things in the news lately... Like the news about Paul Haggis leaving the Church of Scientology:

The New Yorker article

The NPR item about the New Yorker article

Then there's Watson on Jeopardy, an event that made me watch the show for possibly the first time ever. Here's some vids. This is mind-boggling on a number of levels - not just the obvious, an overcompetent computer, but the fact that this electronic whiz quid appears to the world not from some corporate citadel or NASA-like facility, but on a TV quiz show.

And then the Chinese hacked our government. James Bond meets William Gibson?

First Egypt, now a lot of other places.

Americans now want us to pay to enter the country, unless we go by car. Huh. Doesn't make a person feel welcome.