In case you might otherwise have missed it, hop on over to TomPaine.com and read Bill Moyers' America 101.

To whet your appetite, a quotation:

The isolation of our schools, the crumbling of our infrastructure and the reckless disregard of our fiscal affairs signal a retreat from the social compact that made America unique among nations. Our ( Read more... )

Now this is somewhat dated news...but *so* cool. Wikipedia entry here. Also, there's more cool from Wikipedia and the folks at Bletchley Park here.

Ok, so maybe this stuff is only cool for certain, very geeky, values of cool. But Bletchley Park has been all about the geeky for some time now.

Ceruzzi, Paul E. A History of Modern Computing. 2nd Ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003 ( Read more... )