I used to enjoy going to the CIA world factbook because it offered so much relevant data on a yearly basis.

Well, move over factbook: there's now a new fact engine going live this month of May, from the guy who brought us Mathematica. It should allow common fact-based requests to be answered based on public data sources. Give it a whirl!

It struck me as slightly hilarious that while watching The Great Escape last night, that the Nazis...er...Luftwaffe decide that the "worst of the worst" prisoners in their camp will receive a garden, a library and sporting activities. How true to life this is isn't as relevant as the point that we depicted our enemy displaying a level of generosity we have been notably absent of lately.

Further, Froomkin makes the appropriate holes in the Krauthammer argument. To equate people who don't sanction torture with non-military people is idiotic and offensive.

No one in my office appears to be observing no pants day. Sad!

An interesting health site.