Trade a few naked shorts and people are outraged (me too!), but steal a trillion or two from everyone who holds their wealth in dollars and it's business as usual around the beltway. James Grant, publisher of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, on the puzzling lack of outrage for the subprime mess:

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB121642367125066615-4K_l2jdjmxrSAZRs5Ii1mziroY8_20080818.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top

What one man is proactively doing (make the perp pay and not the taxpayer):

https://www.naca.com/economicJustice/subprimeLending.jsp

One estimate of what the subprime mess will cost:
http://mises.org/story/3062

The Republicrat and the Demican seem strangely silent on the matter. Must we really choose between Coke and Pepsi?

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/mission/

On the Travails of the Annointed

Hilliarious take on Obama's European tour by a London Times reporter. See the video here, where the author reads his article over a suitably ridiculous photo montage.

Ethernet services seen growing through 2011.

Is Ethernet the Holy Grail of transport?

LSI into ethernet more from the enterprise side of things than the metro side.

Global chip sales rise 7% in june.

Analyst sees chip boom ahead.

Dell’Oro's Five Year Optical Transport Forecast is outlined by Jimmy Yu in this video.

Niagara Falls Bridge Commission inaugurates 10GbE network to handle video (80%), data (18%), and voice (2%) network traffic.

The flavors and varieties of PON.

DOCSIS vs. BPON in this article that pits Verizon FiOS against cable.

Ethernet over DOCSIS (think of DOCSIS as the Sonet of the cable world). It's looking better and better that VTSS is going after the ethernet market.

An explanation of the ten dimensional space of string theory.

The real reason why problems with the LHC abound.

Possible ex post facto gotcha at the LHC.

Kites to generate energy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GractDA9IBU

Colorado utility gears up for solar.

The Fermi Paradox asks the question, if there are extraterestrials, then where are they? Science fiction has tried to come to terms with the problem for decades.

British Naval logs refute climate change panic.

Some climate changes NOT man made. Who knew?

2 + 2 doesn't equal 22?

Bio-fuel talk at the epicenter of politically correct everything in North America from that bastion of a free (free of what exactly?) press, the San Fran Chronicle.

T'is the season of political hyperbole.

Warp Drive?

Read about the changing face of telecom in this 2003 Slate article that predicts the death of the telecom land line. Here is a current article in Slate which seems to indicate the prediction coming true. Perhaps it just the logical outcome of Peter Huber's Law of the Telecosm.

Huber's Law of Geodesic Networks

Putting together Shannon's law with the law of bandwidth efficiency produces a vision of the kind of networks that will prevail. As coined by Peter Huber, they are "geodesic": short-connection, multipoint, dense arrays. The higher the frequency, the shorter the wavelength, the wider the bandwidth, the lower the power, the smaller the antennae, the slimmer the cells, the cheaper and better the bandwidth.

Huber's Law argues for wireless over wireline.

Cogent argument for converged services

Broadband video growth

PON tutorial from the Cable TV point of view

Your idiot government at work

Common sense on immigration

Yet another casualty of the drug wars

Medical marijuanna

Afta NAFTA: the rise of the machines

Global hypocrisy hot air

Picking the pocket of the taxpayers...again

Our economic house of cards

Al Gore full of hot air

Leviathan continues to grow

The wit and wisdom of the late great George Carlin on the whole dumbass environmental movement

Carbon bomb from deteriorating wetlands

Pass the fossil fuels - hoo ha!

Could Skype become illegal?

Practice makes intuitive

ETs are real according to Edgar Mitchell

Isreal likely to bomb Iran by year's end

AT&T against new 4G format on the grounds that it might be better than AT&T's own format