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A former Iranian Vice President reports that Iranian bloggers imprisoned in Iran are being tortured.

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Rather than giving boatloads of money to poor countries to alleviate their poverty (or in cases like the recent tsunami, to help with disaster recovery), rich countries could just as easily forgive their debt.

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Weblogs get results. I already knew that, though. In my years of running this weblog, I don’t think I’ve ever posted a direct question that didn’t get multiple good answers from readers. For that I am very grateful.

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As of today, people have donated $5 million to the tsunami disaster relief effort via the American Red Cross Amazon.com tip jar alone.

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If you want to help out the victims of the earthquake in south Asia, there are many options.

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My parents have had a small business Web site for about 6 years. They’ve had the same email address since they started, and they have had their email configured so that any email sent to their domain gets dumped into their main mailbox. Last time I visited I set them up with Bayesian filtering and [...]

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I’ll be travelling for Christmas, but I wanted to wish all my readers a Merry Christmas (or happy holidays for those of you who just see this as a couple of involuntary days off). I’ll be back at it in a few days. Interesting fact of the trip: I’m bringing 5 different rechargers.

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MobileWhack has a list of predictions about the rumored upcoming phone from Apple. As I’ve mentioned before, the iPod will one day be killed by mobile phones with enough data storage to carry around your music collection. The article’s author offers this as the primary reason why Apple must enter the mobile phone business. I’m [...]

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Did you know that all of the indecency complaints filed with the FCC come from members of one organization? Me either.

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Here’s how Tom Friedman ends this week’s column, which is about how horrible the insurgents in Iraq are:

As is so often the case, the statesman who framed the stakes best is the British prime minister, Tony Blair. Count me a “Blair Democrat.” Mr. Blair, who was in Iraq this week, said: “Whatever people’s feelings or [...]

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