Tony Hillerman’s Four Corners region of the U.S. and an encounter
Filed under: Arts and Culture, United States, Books, News

“an author knows his landscape unsurpassed; he can allude to b support around, smell the occur, get a feel for his place.” –tony hillerman
Yesterday, when I read that Tony Hillerman died, I flashed back to one afternoon […]

Analysis: Will Viewers Tune in to Obama’s Half-Hour Ad?
call it barack obama’s $3.5 million gamble, but as the obama campaign readies to declare related to a half-hour tv program at 8 p.m. edt wednesday on paramount announce and some cable networks, the question is will it actually work? amidst discussion about how the ad dramatically […]

Windows 7 to feature GPU acceleration like Apple’s Snow Leopard?
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

a first loyal glimpse of windows 7, microsoft’s vista successor, is t minus 1 day and counting. so far we know very little. oh sure, it supports multi-touch and takes 1,000 engineers to code but the real details will appear from tuesday’s kickoff […]

Afghan arrested in N.Y. narco-terrorism case
an afghan man was brought to the opinion states on friday to face charges that he led an international drug trafficking organization …

Wichita Weather Forecast
tonight: mostly cloudy this evening then clearing and cold. understand: nw 5-10. low: 36.saturday: mostly sunny and much warmer. wind: nw/sw 5-15. squiffy: 69.saturday darkness: mostly […]

Anyone Planning to ‘Fess Up on Lehman’s CDSs?
Just curious, but is anyone planning to ‘fess up on the Lehman-related CDS losses last week? As I wrote last Thursday, there was oodles of worry about the auction, with some people tossing out apocalyptic numbers, the highest of which were usually based on confusions about notional and […]