Tle logic of small children ....

[Wen]  My daddy is a brown man.

[Pirate]  No, Daddy is white!

[Wen]  He's white when it's light.  He's brown when it's dark.

I guess this is something like the principle that all cats are grey after midnight....

The odds are you didn't hear anything about it ...

...on any major US news outlet, but there's a Soyuz in orbit right now that launched late last night from Baikonur, carrying a replacement crew for the ISS.  The Soyuz is carrying Commander Bill McArthur of NASA, Commander Valery Tokarev of Russia, and New Jersey space tourist Greg Olsen.  It's unclear from this coverage whether Olsen will be staying on the ISS, or returning to Earth with departing ISS crew members.

Google's next step to world domination

Google just announced a plan to cover 95% of San Francisco with 300kbps wireless Internet, at no cost either to users or to the city, in response to mayor Gavin Newsom's request for proposals last year.

You can find a good discussion of the Google proposal and issues surrounding it here.  My favorite quote from the article:

SBC has already been good for its usual comic relief:  Witness company mouthpiece John Britton claiming that "there is already widespread broadband available today" in San Francisco.  Well, yes, John, there is -- provided you live in a cafe or a bookstore, or along parts of Castro or Chestnut streets where six-figure incomes are just enough to scrape by.  Otherwise, you'd have to -- well, you'd have to work for a telecom to say something that stupid.

Go read it'  It's not only amusing, it's insightful and worthwhile reading.