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Should we treat terrorists as pirates? What is needed now is a framework for an international crime of terrorism. The framework should be incorporated into the U.N. Convention on Terrorism and should call for including the crime in domestic criminal law and perhaps the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court. This framework must recognize the unique threat that terrorists pose to nation-states, yet not grant them the legitimacy accorded to belligerent states. It must provide the foundation for a law that criminalizes not only terrorist acts but membership in a terrorist organization. It must define methods of punishment. ...

Joe Killian went to a Gun and Knife Show at the Greensboro Coliseum and reports back. Good stuff: Apparently people who are selling Nazi flags, bronze busts of Hitler and Rommel and stocking “The Turner Diaries” in the non-fiction section (all of which we saw) don’t like having their pictures taken.

One of the hazards of keeping the TV on as background noise while working over a weekend is that you might end up hearing fashion advice for guys. What I just heard: “Sexy tops, lowcut shirts, and skinny jeans” are in for men. Okay, if you’ve seen the pictures in a photographic record, you kind of know what I look like. What I now can’t get out of my head is a picture of me, dressed in a lowcut satin shirt with a sequin pattern and a pair of jeans that look like they were painted on. Suffice it to say, at 5'6" and the approximate weight of an NFL running back, that’s not a good picture, for me or the rest of the world. TV fashion shows should carry liability insurance. ;) ...

At first I thought he was talking about us. :) Get Fuzzy’s Bucky Katt comes up with a better name for mockingbirds, at least the one that lives near us.

I love it when comic book characters start speaking in logo… Image courtesy of Seven Hells!

37signals, the company that offers products such as Basecamp, Backpack, and Writeboard, noticed that a plurality of their users use Firefox. Not real surprising, since 37signals has done a good job of marketing its wares to a techy, early-adopter type crowd, but hasn’t completely broken into the mainstream. It’s interesting to see, though, that Basecamp, their project-management application, has the highest Internet Explorer usage. Good indication that people are using them at work, which is still heavily IE-dominated. ...

Come one, come all! See the amazing “Don’t Marry Career Women” article at Forbes. Marvel at the reasoning! Take a trip back down nostalgia lane to a time when cars were big and women stayed in the kitchen! Seriously, did someone over at Forbes go insane? Here’s the first paragraph: Guys: A word of advice. Marry pretty women or ugly ones. Short ones or tall ones. Blondes or brunettes. Just, whatever you do, don’t marry a woman with a career. ...

Tonight, we saw a bit of Airplane II: The Sequel, and my wife said Buck Murdock reminded her of me. Buck Murdock is played by William Shatner…sweet. :) Quote from Buck: Oh, cut the bleeding heart crap, will ya? We’ve all got our switches, lights, and knobs to deal with, Striker. I mean, down here there are literally hundreds and thousands of blinking, beeping, and flashing lights, blinking and beeping and flashing - they’re flashing and they’re beeping. I can’t stand it anymore! They’re blinking and beeping and flashing! Why doesn’t somebody pull the plug! ...

North Korea has a way with press releases, and the NK News site makes sure we all get to share. Some recent samples: KCNA Blasts Military Adventure of U.S. and South Korean Warmongers Agreement on Cooperation in Public Health Inked between DPRK and Zimbabwe Former Unconverted Long-term Prisoner Kim Sok Hyong Dies All Koreans Called upon to Crush For. Aggressor Forces through National Cooperation Japan’s Crime to Exterminate Korean Nation I have a personal favorite from this collection, though: ...

New Web 2.0 version of the logo, created by the Web 2.0 V2 Logo Creator: Link courtesy of inessential.com :)