Miscellaneous Ramblings

Political gaming helped experts in the cold war. Why wasn’t it used by top leaders before the Iraq war?

Like the events of the year, the clips we scanned on the explosively popular website — itself a defining event of 2006 — spanned the hilarious and the heartbreaking, the ridiculous and the profoundly serious.

Parts of the collapsed, restless volcano in Yellowstone National Park are swelling faster than has ever been recorded.

Anshe Chung’s achievement is all the more remarkable because the fortune was developed over a period of two and a half years from an initial investment of $9.95 for a Second Life account by Anshe’s creator, Ailin Graef.

If you have ever felt like you had to dig around the Internet for good content, you might want to look at something called Digg (http://www.digg.com).

Wired News gives our readers the opportunity to nominate whatever it was they most looked forward to, and were cruelly denied.

It takes only a few minutes to "tour" the bend in the Molt-Rapelje Road that once was Wheat Basin. But for Don Nordahl, 84, the tour teases up a time and place that has long since faded from the prairie.

"This cooling effect cancels the impact of the greenhouse gases,"

How does your office stackup?

Everything you wanted to know about the Kazakh road trip — what was staged, who was an actor, and who was just hapless comedy roadkill.