I need to get back in the habit of dropping by Chaos Manor regularly. Somewhere in the last few desktop changes, it fell out of my bookmarks, and I never remember to add it back. :(

Dr. P definitely has an extensive network of people who know stuff about things, especially in the fields of computers and defense policy; taking a walk through his blog and mail will kill more time than just about anything else on the intertubes except TVTropes, and the useful information content of the latter is much lower.