links for 2006-04-20

Den Haag vreest voor een eigen Falklandoorlog met president Hugo Chavez van Venezuela als de grote agressor.

The universe is a system where the very specific details and structures are created when quantum bits de-cohere - choose one path out of multiple possibilities - and this process is identical to quantum computation.

Many people on the political "left" hold startlingly bigoted prejudices about people (mis)identified with the "right" --- and conversely. Usually, these prejudices have little if anything to do with race.