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At least two sources in the past few days have indicated that the word Islam derives from the word salaam,...

Long but fascinating New York Times article describing the thoughts and opinions of various Muslims in Gaza, Cairo, and Hamburg...

I keep meaning to note that I will be cleaning up the interface for this at some point. The show-all-entries-for-a-given-day...

My computer clock was heading toward 2 a.m., and then suddenly it was 1 again. So it's not that late...

I suppose all true UFOlogists already know about this, but I either didn't know or had forgotten: under the Freedom...

Interesting opinion piece by Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, in the Independent. He makes some curiously roundabout statements—for...

Nice speech by Bill Clinton, given at Yale on 10/6/01. It's not startlingly original or groundbreaking, but it makes good...

Interesting study from Stanford and Poynter in which they put sophisticated eye-tracking devices on people reading news sites (not newsgroups)...

No, it's not a "Major Tom" flashback, it's a successful-so-far (knock on wood) NASA mission to Mars, at long last....

Another good opinion piece from Barbara Kingsolver, this one in the LA Times: "No Glory in Unjust War on the...

A telling Wall Street Journal article titled "Security Comes Before Liberty," by Jay Winik, describes the actions of the Adams,...