Actually, a link to another group which has cooperated with Al-Queda, but a lot of these  Pakistan/Afghanistan Islamic groups exchange people, information and resources.

Here is the article. Notable quote:

A three-tier security ring has been thrown around the 72-year-old Buddhist head, who lives at Dharamsala, in the Himalayan foothills, Indian police spokesman Prem Lal said.

All those approaching the exiled Tibetan chief will be closely watched by highly trained Tibetan security guards as well as heavily armed deployments of Indian police.

Visitors are being body-searched before being allowed to approach him.

This makes me incredibly sad, but it's part and parcel of the age.  

And then it brings up, of course, how non-violence may be an inappropriate response, to determined aggression.   We knew this of course, simply from China's extermination of the Tibetans as a separate people, over the last 50 years.

Thanks to Matthew Dallman for the link.

The National Review article, throughout, conflates priests practices Buddhism, with people who are primarily Buddhist, but acting out of nationalism - but the main point still remains that in certain situations, even practicing buddhist priets have responded to force, with force.

Maybe - at least soon!

Here is a guy with a jetpack, flying around.

And here is a startup looking to build the flying car.

It's long been a pet peeve of mine - "all these technological optimists everywhere, and I STILL can't fly around with a jetpack/flying car!".

Well, maybe the Jetsons are getting closer.   I'll tell you what, if we get there, then I expect my talking Astro about a decade or two later.

C4Chaos becomes a U.S. citizen. 

Congratulations are in order - may long distance stop sucking soon!

This is stating the obvious, but numbers now bear it out - blogging has peaked.

Now some have even gone to ask, "Is blogging dead?". 

But that certainly is not the case - still a lot of great information from blogs, especially topical analyses.

But with the explosion of podcasting, social networking, twitter, etc - certainly the landscape has shifted.