Outside the Beltway

Local newspapers in Belgium inexplicably don’t want to be linked by Google and are using copyright law rather than a robots.txt file to enforce their wishes.

Sunday’s announcement of the death of Osama bin Laden was the latest example of how Twitter has become the go-to source for “Breaking News.”

An attempt at explaining where I am coming from on in the health care discussion.

There has been some buzz on the national security backchannels that a heretofore secret “stealth” helicopter was used in the SEAL raid on Osama bin Laden’s Pakistan hideout.

The photographs of President Obama that appeared in the papers after the Osama announcement were staged.

A Pakistani man named Sohaib Athar unwittingly became part of history in the early hours of Sunday morning when he started telling twitter about some odd events in Abbotabad, Pakistan

Keith Urbahn, chief of staff of former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, broke the news.

The Garbonzo Warfare Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

President Obama is suffering in the polls because of high gas prices, but is there really anything he can do about them?

Apple isn’t the only company collecting data off their smartphones.

Why, yes, my iPhone has indeed been tracking me since last summer.

A survey of three studies demonstrates consistently that exposure to certain pesticides used in farming diminishes mental development.

The CIA has declassified the last six documents from the World War One era.

Hard as it is to believe, it’s been two decades since Tim Berners-Lee published the first website. They look a wee bit different these days.

Donald Rumsfeld famously worked standing up. He was on to something.

While the pace of modern life is in many ways faster than ever, the golden age of speed was decades ago.

Zsa Zsa Gabor’s 67-year-old husband says he and the 94-year-old actress are seeking to have a child through a surrogate.

The Japan nuclear meltdown has now topped the scale used to measure such things, reaching the same level as the Chernobyl disaster. It’s a stupid scale.

The Obama Administration is resisting efforts to expand Fourth Amendment protections to services like Gmail. That’s unfortunate.

“Internet addiction” is a made-up malady.

Video entertainment is moving in two seemingly opposite directions simultaneously.

The Japanese government has announced that the Fukushima Reactor suffered a partial meltdown.

Nuclear power remains far safer than coal. The awful events in Fukushima must not spook governments outlawing atomic energy.

Obama is visiting Brazil and Chile while American fighting men join the coalition against Libya.

Experts say the phone call is a relic of the past.

Lawyers in US court case spent ten pages of transcript arguing what a photocopier is. “Do you have machines where I can put in a paper document, push a button or two, and out will come copies of that paper document, also on paper?”

Evolution is falsifiable and biology is a science. Economics might be.

Earth’s moon will seem bigger Saturday night than it has since 1993. It’ll still be the same size as usual, however.

Will one of the worst natural disasters to hit Japan in centuries change the relationship between the Japanese government and the people?

The Doo Wa Diddy Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

Add this to the list of things for parents to worry about: Car safety seats for children over 65 pounds are not adequately tested.

Automated programs are getting very good at poker and are winning large sums on online gambling sites.

Archaeologists may have found the lost city of Atlantis. And, no, not the one in the Bahamas.

Overnight, we celebrate the biannual ritual of resetting all our clocks so as to save daylight. Oddly, the amount of daylight continues to heed its own rhythms.