This post represents the revamping of the previous Daily Web Roundup, which had become neither daily nor a proper roundup. As a result, the Worldview Web Roundup will be posted weekly typically on Fridays with the gatherings of the previous week.
The Worldview Web Roundup is a collection of links to the news, commentary, and information I found interesting or useful over the past week or so. If you want to read more of what is found in this post, find links to my favorite news, commentary, and information sites at Dennis L Hitzeman’s News Reading List.
News
Stranger Than Fiction- Fox News
Alfie Carrington wants to build a working flying saucer. No, really. He wants to build a magnetically levitating and driven double rotating disc that essentially uses a rotor effect to lift the who apparatus off of the ground.
Who knows, maybe he will be the one who gives us flying cars…
More on the British Royal Marines Commandos– Sky News via Hot Air via BlackFive
Sweet Madre! Those Commandos have cajones!
Who Knew Losing One’s Citizenship Could Be So Easy– Fox News
At least it appears to have been easy for Canadians living between 1947 and 1977. Seriously, who even has a law like that?
Open Source Meets Big Business on Wikipedia– Fox News
Of course this is already happening anyway on a smaller level, but the Wikipedia folks busted Microsoft for trying to pay someone to edit entries on the open source encyclopedia.
The question becomes: “Who cares?†If information being posted on Wikipedia is technically inaccurate, incomplete, or false, Microsoft should have the right to correct those problems. And, if Microsoft chooses to pay someone else to do that work, how is that any different than having their own employees make such edits?
Of course, the question here goes to the root of open source. In spite of the grand attempt to make the whole idea egalitarian, the truth is that everyone has a profit motive of one kind or another. The open source community would do well to factor that idea into their approach and do something with it.
Commentary
A Compelling Explanation of Why We Should Finish the Job in Iraq.- The Guardian via Hot Air via BlackFive
We Americans sometimes forget that it is not just our troops that are dying in Iraq. Equally, we forget that it is not just conservative, right-wing, war mongers who support the completion of the mission.
God bless you Mr. Stewardson and comfort you in the loss of your son. I pray that we will not let him have died in vain.
A Military View of the Troop Surge, or How To Make the Facts Look the Way You Want– Mudville Gazette
The Mudville Gazette does an interesting job of interpreting a Military Times poll for them, and the results may surprise you.
About That Plan– BlackFive
Hillary Clinton Wants to Be Margret Thatcher– TCS Daily
Too bad she has none of that great woman’s traits.
DLH
