Gongol.com Archives: April 2007
Brian Gongol


April 20, 2007

Computers and the Internet BlackBerry blames big system failure on a badly-tested software update
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The United States of America The stupidest Bush policy no one in America will ever hear about
They've proposed eliminating every English-language broadcast of the Voice of America except a couple to Africa. The VOA is an incredibly efficient means of conducting diplomacy. Its annual budget is a miniscule fraction of what's being spent just on building the new embassy in Baghdad. If the administration doesn't get how inexcusably stupid a move like this is, they've really lost their marbles. The VOA costs so little and is so useful in return that we ought to be doubling its budget, not cutting it by a dime.

Graphics Graphic of the day: Found Guilty

Water News Food safety vs. water quality: Trade-offs abound

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