Tim O’Reilly has published an analysis of sales from his online Safari line against sales of print books from Bookscan. Not surprisingly, selling online allows him to move a lot more product down at the end of the long tail.

Granted it’s Oklahoma, but this zero net energy home is still only slightly more expensive than similar houses built using less environmentally sensitive technologies.

The U.S. military is testing a wearable system for recording a soldier’s environment when on patrol, with the intention of better determining what happened in a combat situation.

Sidney Blumenthal’s expose of the Bush White House’s successful efforts to dismantle the CIA puts a knee-jerk liberal in an awkward place. After all, the CIA is not exactly a well-respected organization in leftward circles. Even so, if Blumenthal’s insider gossip is accurate, it doesn’t take much thought to realize the transfer of covert power from a civilian agency to a military one won’t do much to further a rational humanitarian agenda.

Yet another major flaw has been found in Diebold voting machines. Why this surprises anyone, I’m not sure. Best quote in the linked article: “All of us who have heard the technical details of this are really shocked. It defies reason that anyone who works with security would tolerate this design.”