Tuesday rapid fire

I suppose it's Wednesday

• Chris Nolan has some good thoughts on the Cindy Sheehan business, dubbing her the Terry Shiavo of the left. This whole matter has gotten sordid faster than I thought it would. On the whole Nolan does fine media criticism.
• A well written (for the genre) analysis of Google Search mechanisms.
• An interesting post on making the word contextual via applied technology (my phrase not theirs) at DefenseTech.
• "the law of averages catches people at the worst times, and survival favors the protected." and more insight, particularly about IEDs from Michael Yon. The photography is particularly good.
• Articles such as "Officials: Inmates used cell phones to coordinate riots" and many others like tend to confirm the Global Guerillas blog notion of disruption and Open Source warfare