It seems there has been a small cyber-war going on between Estonia and ethnic Russians who seem to be opposed to Estonia’s removal of a Soviet statue. The article doesn’t get into the history much, and I’m too lazy and tired right now to do it, but it does show an emerging trend that the US is going to have to catch up with — computer warfare.
Archive for May, 2007
Cyber-Warfare
Monday, May 28th, 2007New Discoveries in Poetry
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007Today was the day for finals in my classes, and one of the popular essay questions (well, maybe not popular, but more often chosen) on my 12th grade Brit Lit final was about The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats. If you’re unfamiliar with the poem, it’s pretty good, and it will help to read it (or read it again) before reading the remainder of this post. I’ll wait.
Finished? Ok. One of the essays that I got was explaining what this poem was all about. I shall quote verbatim:
“The author states that Jesus would return to earth as a ‘spiritus mundi’ somewhere in the sands of the desert with the head of a man and the body of a lion.”
This rather amused me. I’m not sure whether it would amuse or horrify poor Willie Butler Yeats, but I suspect the latter.
New Archaeological Finds
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007Via my sister, we have an article in National Geographic describing the discovery of King Herod’s Tomb. Herod is one of my favorite historical figures from Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews
One Question Answered
Tuesday, May 8th, 2007I haven’t been posting much lately, largely because I’m busy with school and the like, but I thought I should post the resolution to a recent incident we had at school.