I got a note from an Eric McErlain, who bills himself as being with the Nuclear Energy Institute, responding to this post.

The plot thickens. According to this BBC story, al Qaeda says the letter U.S. intelligence says is from Ayman al-Zawahiri to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is a fake.

Once upon a time, Britain's MI6 even denied its own existence. Now it has a website where you can learn about the onsite squash courts.

Here's the site and here's the NYT story -- and here's what it has to say about James Bond:

I remember a time when all the geniuses were trumpeting AOL's business model, noting they actually had subscription revenue!

Well, AOL is now reinventing itself as a free portal.

A few days ago, I pointed to the ABC News series on loose nukes.

Now some universities whose nuclear reactors were the targets of the investigation are whining and crying about this act of perfidy.

Democracy Now! talks with Al-Jazeera's London bureau chief Yousri Fouda, author of Masterminds of Terror: The Truth Behind the Most Devastating Attack the World Has Ever Seen.

The NYT's Judith Miller has done the testifying thing before the Plamegate grand jury, talking about some recently uncovered notes from an interview with a senior White House official.

Update: I've added links to two Salon stories

The Wall Street Journal is making itself 20 per cent narrower to attempt to reduce rising newspaper costs.

Flood historian John M. Barry says much of the destruction that befell New Orleans came from human error and not an act of God -- and he points the finger at the U.S. Corps of Army Engineers.

Journalist and author Robert D. Kaplan thinks the U.S. military is the organization best-suited to helping out with relief work in the many disasters sure to befall humanity in the coming decades.