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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) wins another one…

Graphic: Zombie

When self-proclaimed Islamists hijack a plane and murder everyone on board, what’s the ONE religion whose symbolism you would probably want to avoid in a memorial to that horrible event? “Islam”, maybe?

Not so, in the wacky world of political correctness!

The problem has to do with the way the Firefox and Mozilla browsers handle International Domain Names, or IDNs. IDNs are domain names that use local language characters. The fix disables support for such Web addresses.

Criticism of the speed and scope of the government’s response (to the hurricane disaster in New Orleans) came from members of both political parties and the private sector…

Bush’s family also came in for criticism. A comment made earlier in the week by his mother, Barbara Bush, was slammed on Internet sites and newspaper pages.

Scambusters offers a list of hurricane Katrina scams already making the rounds. Fake aid websites have sprung up, phishing e-mails are being sent, spammers are using Katrina to sell Viagra, and a number of Investment scams are emerging. CNN/Money chimes in, and directs users to Give.org, which lists relief organizations and offers a breakdown of where donations go.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading Paul Graham’s recent essay Great Hackers. His sermon is well-written, and I assume it played very well when he preached it to the choir at OSCON.

Graham describes the notion of a “great hacker”, which he seems to roughly define as a programmer who is several times more productive than average.

It works!