How do you know you’re a geek? Someone sends you a URL to a story in the National Enquirer. Instead of opening it, you look at the file extension, see that it’s .cfm, think, “That’s interesting, they use Cold Fusion,” and move on without ever seeing what’s on the page.
Robert Wright’s followup on his article about Donald Rumsfeld and missile defense. I really think that we need to carefully and realistically analyze which course of action will maximize the security of the United States. I haven’t read anything yet that leads me to believe that spending a bunch of money to build an unreliable system that will also piss off half the world is the way to go.