Former General says it was "never a mission" to defeat Iraq's insurgents

Could prove amusing.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/06/general_never_a.html

White House staffers email has been purged

I expected the shredders to be working overtime before the current administration left office, apparently they're starting early to avoid the rush. :-)

Gee flagrant violation of the law? No worries! We've got Word set up to mail merge everyone who ever worked at the White House to print Presidential Pardons!

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/19/0018249

Remember my semi-resolution to listen to my entire music library alphabetically?

Well, I'm up R! Right now I'm listening to David Bowie's Quicksand, next up is Quidam by Cirque du Soliel, and then it's R!

My list has gotten altered a bit, I'll be listening to someone (like Buster Poindexter) and decide that I just don't want to hear any more of them, so I'll delete them from the list. Still, I've got another 1600 songs (4.5 days) to go!

A BMW Mini doing 0-60 in 4 seconds and topping out at 150 MPH?!

New engines design breaking the conventional internal combustion models. Cool stuff.

http://www.wired.com/cars/futuretransport/news/2007/06/future_engines

Woman whose identity was stolen catches the thief after a 45 minute foot pursuit!

It's a cool story. Victim is in Starbuck's. Had previously been in the bank to identify the woman in a surveillance photo that was allegedly her, said thief had an expensive coat. There, in the line in front of her, is the woman with the coat.

In the words of Moonlighting, "Cue the chase music!"

After finally being caught, the thief got a 44 day sentence that was counted as time served plus a suspended sentence. After six months of identity hell, the crook walked. Heinlein had it right: TANJ.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/15/IDTHEFT.TMP

The Slashdot thread: http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/06/15/1220215

YouTube: A film of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!

I'd like to know when it was made. It's 10 minutes with scratchy but acceptable audio. He spends some time talking about the origin of Sherlock Holmes, then he switches over to psychic phenomena. *sigh*

http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/06/sir_arthur_cona.html

A pretty thorough features review of the forthcoming Apple OS, Leopard

I've seen lots of reviews/previews, but none really discussed the features.

http://www.wired.com/software/softwarereviews/news/2007/06/leopard_review?currentPage=1

Steampunk Review: 17 photos of steampunk devices

Including R2S2 -- a steam-driven astromech droid!

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/mods/multimedia/2007/06/gallery_steampunk?slide=1&slideView=9