I finally broke down and bought myself a 12 inch Apple Powerbook laptop. I'm still in the honeymoon phase of my purchase so don't expect this to be an entirely rational review of it. So far, I'm pretty impressed by how easy it was to get it setup, particularly the networking aspects of it. I was pretty scarred by networking in the windows world and impressed by how much easier it was on a linux box. It was equally as simple on the Powerbook, especially hooking up to a wireless network. At the office it found our wireless setup and used dhcp to get its settings without any hassle.

Scott Rosenberg writes about how John Kerry should debate the president this week: Speaking unblinking truth to power. This president is all about "Not Blinking". Or as John Stewart said, "Sure he drove us into a wall, but he didn't flinch while he doing it".

"Mr. Bush, after 9/11 your job as president was to protect this nation, and you've failed. You didn't bring the World Trade Center attackers to justice. Bin Laden is still on the loose, and the Taliban still operate in Afghanistan. Instead, you led the nation into a war on Iraq on false grounds. You botched the war, and thousands of Americans and Iraqis have died and are still dying because of your mistakes. In a time when America should have been a beacon of justice to Iraq and to the world, you allowed our troops to torture enemy prisoners. Despite all these mistakes, not a single official in your administration has ever taken real responsibility for them."

Comedy Central asked Nielsen Media Research to do a little audience research for them after Bill O'Reilly referred to their audience as "stoned slackers". So who are the "stoned slackers" watching Jon Stewart?

Viewers of Jon Stewart's show are more likely to have completed four years of college than people who watch "The O'Reilly Factor," according to Nielsen Media Research