Agonist

I've been finding that one of the best ways to keep up on the Iraq news lately is The Agonist. It's a one-man operation by a guy who gathers a bunch of reports about the war and summarizes them. Just thought I'd pass that along to people who aren't aware of it.

Pictures from the Conference

You can see "official" pictures from the conference here. I managed to stay out of most of them except for this one.

Berkeley in a Nutshell

I had an incident today that crystallized the type of thing that bugs me about Berkeley. Berkeley is the type of place where shopkeepers are concerned about theft enough to make you leave your laptop bag at the front of the store, but not so concerned about theft that they won't wander off and leave the bag where anybody could grab it.