Scott Rosenberg steps up to defend Yahoo in his latest column. He makes an important point – Yahoo is only doing poorly based on its own standards, it’s still way better off than just about any other Internet company. I’m inclined to believe that Yahoo is still fundamentally sound, although the fact that much of the revenue that they “generated” this quarter was deferred revenue from previous quarters is troubling. I’m not enough of a financial analyst to know what that means, but I believe it’s a pretty common form of book cooking.
IBM developerWorks has an article on the NSA’s release of SE Linux to the open source community.
Lawrence J Korb takes on military myths propagated by Dubya for political gain:
“Military people are not overworked and underpaid and, despite campaign rhetoric, most aren’t on food stamps. During the 1990s, an average of 40,000 military people were deployed in various “operations other than war.” This represents less than 3% of the active force and less than 2% of the total force, counting reserves. A greater percentage of the active force was stationed in the United States than during the 1980s … As for pay, most men and women in the armed services make more than 75% of their civilian counterparts. And, if the compensation levels of military people were adjusted to reflect the fair market value of their housing allowances, fewer than 1% would be eligible for food stamps.”
Most Americans have heard of the famous feud between the Hatfields and McCoys, but don’t really know all that much about it. BlueRidge Country Online has a short history of the long feud. It’s an interesting read as long as you can keep track of all of the characters.