Thanks to NYkrinDC, came across Pageflakes today. Very snazzy RSS aggregator that lets you dispay your feeds in columns like a newspaper. Not that I’m thinking of changing; I’m still partial to Bloglines for sheer readability (I adore the ability to force the text into a narrow column for reading and to minimize all other distractions). I played around with Google Reader, but I think Bloglines knocks it out of the water.

Picking up on the theme of asymmetric innovation cycles, a clip from today’s WaPo:

American officials have said that the majority of car and truck bombs are built outside the capital by members of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the Sunni-dominated insurgent group. But a preliminary investigation showed that the truck used in Tuesday’s blast was rigged with TNT a little less than a mile from where it exploded, near the Shiite al-Khilani mosque.

If that proves to be the case, it would mean that al-Qaeda in Iraq has shifted strategies once again, this time in reaction to increased security efforts meant to control access to Baghdad.

In an interview on state-run al-Iraqiya television, Brig. Gen. Qassim Atta, an Iraqi spokesman for the four-month-old Baghdad security plan, suggested as much, saying that insurgents are now building car bombs inside Baghdad, hoping to avoid driving through the city and being detected at newly erected security checkpoints.