Posted 11:13 PM by Glenn
INSTAPUNDIT'S SERVER ISN'T DOWN, but you may be unable to reach it because of router problems and a cut fiber cable. Should be back up later, but I'm going to bed soon.

Posted 1:11 PM by Glenn
RICHARD WRAY:

Yahoo appears to have kowtowed to the Chinese government yet again and passed details of a fourth dissident writer's email account to the security forces, brightening the spotlight thrown on the dubious compromises that western businesses are making to operate within the world's second largest internet market.

Doing business in China has always involved a heavy dose of realpolitik - a senior mobile phone industry executive, desperate to get into the world's fastest growing mobile market, once described operating in China to me as akin to walking into a room and taking down his trousers. But what makes Yahoo's flagrant co-operation and the recent self-censorship carried out by search engine rival Google so shocking to web users, is that the internet has been sold to the world as a tool for free speech not for maintaining or even strengthening the political status quo.

And it's certainly caused me to think less of both organizations, and the people behind them.

Posted 12:45 PM by Glenn
TOM MAGUIRE: "I'm not worried that reporters currently spend too much time with Google and Nexis."

Posted 12:31 PM by Glenn
FORGET FOX AND CNN: I THINK THE WHITE HOUSE PRESS CORPS should have to listen to the Glenn & Helen podcasts!

I'm writing Tony Snow to suggest it . . . .

Posted 12:30 PM by Glenn
I SHOULD NOTE that since email forwards through the InstaPundit server, I'm not getting anything sent to the "pundit" address. You can reach me via instapunditmail -at- gmail dot com until things are fixed. The mail I'm missing should emerge from a buffer whenever this is fixed, though.

Posted 12:24 PM by Glenn
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ROUNDS UP critics' views of United 93 (free link). Meanwhile, the audience reviews so far look pretty good.

Posted 12:23 PM by Glenn
HOSTING MATTERS IS DOWN as the result of a DOS attack. They're working on it. The only other thing I know is that it originates in Saudi Arabia. I'll be posting here until it's fixed.

UPDATE: Rand Simberg emails, correctly, that originating in Saudi Arabia doesn't actually mean that the perpetrators are Saudis -- just the computers they've hijacked. True enough.

Posted 10:33 PM by Glenn
THERE APPEARS TO BE ANOTHER DDOS ATTACK on HostingMatters. See you in the morning, either here or on the main site, depending.

Whoever's launching these attacks is doing a lot for my reading. I nearly finished the Harry Turtledove book during the last attack, and I'm starting a new book tonight.

Posted 1:18 AM by Glenn
INSTAPUNDIT is down, along with all of Hosting Matters, I believe. The HM people say it's a DDOS attack. I'm going to bed now anyway; if the site's still down tomorrow I'll post here, but that's unlikely.

Posted 7:47 PM by Glenn
INSTAPUNDIT ISN'T DOWN, and now I can reach it. People are having trouble, though. I think it's general net congestion more than anything. Just wait a few minutes and try again. I'll keep posting here from time to time, too, though, just in case.

Bush just took West Virginia, which is news mostly because a loss there would have indicated a likely Kerry landslide.

Posted 7:06 PM by Glenn
KENTUCKY, INDIANA, GEORGIA called for Bush by NBC; Vermont for Kerry. Not much news there.

Posted 6:56 PM by Glenn
SPOONS has a different kind of pledge: "I PLEDGE TO BITCH ABOUT WHOMEVER IS ELECTED PRESIDENT." Always make promises you know you can keep!

He makes a good point here, though: "Don't support a President just because "he's President." He's a servant, not a king. Treat him like it. Give him exactly the support he earns -- no more, no less. If you feel compelled to make some sort of feel-good pledge, pledge to treat whomever wins fairly, and to judge their actions without regard to whether you voted for him or not."

I think that's really the key point here, isn't it?

Posted 6:12 PM by Glenn
VOTE SAVE ERROR NUMBER 9 I consider myself vindicated.

Posted 6:05 PM by Glenn
DID I DO THAT? "Bloggers Spook Market." Actually, I think it was Drudge.

Posted 6:00 PM by Glenn
THE ELECTION NIGHT TRAFFIC is making the InstaPundit site hard to reach -- and sometimes causing Movable Type to crap out when I try to post. The Hosting Matters folks are working on it. In the meantime, I'm going to post some stuff here, too, so that people who can't reach the main site will still have something to read.

Posted 1:24 PM by Glenn
Seems to be working again. That didn't take long!

Posted 1:15 PM by Glenn
Instapundit is down -- Hosting Matters is having network problems, of a so-far unspecified nature. If the main site isn't up soon, I'll start posting here.

Posted 7:18 PM by Glenn
SEEMS TO BE FIXED NOW -- back over at InstaPundit. Be sure to bookmark this backup page, just in case. . . .

Posted 2:51 PM by Glenn
HOWARD LOVY has a nice writeup of the Foresight Institute's nano workshop, in SmallTimes. What once was considered "crackpot" is now considered respectable, and potentially lucrative.

One suspects that the former is the result of the latter. . . .

Posted 2:47 PM by Glenn
THIS PIECE in the Christian Science Monitor suggests that reconstruction in Iraq is going pretty well:

Certainly, there remains an enormous amount to fix in Iraq. But there is something unseemly about the impatience of today's pundits, their insistence on instant recovery, and what my colleague Michael Barone calls the media's "zero defect standard."

US soldiers and administrators are turning a tide of history and culture in the Middle East. If Americans show some patience, they'll gaze upon many heartening transformations in Iraq a few months and years from now.

Read the whole thing. And visit SgtStryker.com, which is rounding up both good and bad news about Iraq using an interesting new format.

Posted 2:14 PM by Glenn
ANDREW SULLIVAN is Fisking Bill Bennett.

Posted 2:05 PM by Glenn
I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO DIGEST IT -- and there's a good chance I won't like it when I do -- but the President's Council on Bioethics has a new report out.

Posted 2:04 PM by Glenn
I COMPARE BUSH-HATRED AND CLINTON-HATRED, over at GlennReynolds.com -- and suggest that Bush-hatred may do the Democrats even more harm than Clinton-hatred did the Republicans.

Posted 2:02 PM by Glenn
MEGAN MCARDLE has another column on Social Security up over at TechCentralStation.

Posted 1:33 PM by Glenn
HERE'S MORE EVIDENCE that the Democrats are rethinking gun control -- from Mother Jones!

UPDATE: Meanwhile, the Army is endorsing gun control. . . .

Posted 1:32 PM by Glenn
I WAS WONDERING if anybody even knew to check this site, so I stuck on a counter and, lo! people are visiting. Cool. The outage seems to be lasting, so I'll post some more.

Posted 1:24 PM by Glenn
NICK CONFESSORE has some interesting thoughts on the Blogs as CB radio flap.

My own take will be in my TechCentralStation column tomorrow. Rather than talking about blogs, I'm defending CB radio!

Posted 12:42 PM by Glenn
HOSTINGMATTERS IS DOWN AGAIN: I assume due to further hack attacks, though there were AT&T backbone problems, too. Sorry about that. The HM folks seem to be dealing with it with admirable professionalism.

Meanwhile, Angry Left points to a disturbing report on Saudi-Pakistani nuclear-weapons cooperation.

We should topple the Saudi government before allowing it to get nuclear weapons. A nuclear-armed Saudi Arabia would be a bigger threat to world peace than North Korea.