Links and Minifeatures 10 23 Monday (late)

Carnival of Investing



Carnival of the Capitalists



Carnival of Personal Finance

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Some welcome news here: Radical Islam finds US 'sterile ground'



On the other hand: Egyptians who enslaved girl, 10, get U.S. prison



Only three years for two years enslavement?



via Tinkerty-Tonk, Two faces of Arab intellectuals



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While I was finding a good permalink to another article, I noticed this one: A century on, Brazil still claims flight's first.



What it doesn't say is that there were people trying to steal the Wright Brothers ideas and inventions, and so, of necessity due to the murky nature of intenational intellectual property at that time, they became very secretive for several years after the initial flight. Once their claim was settled, they made a tour of europe, astounding audiences with their control of the airplane. Flying figure 8s may not seem like a big deal today, but back then, the Wrights were the only ones who could do it. Where before, europe, led by those self-proclaimed arbiters the French, had disparaged the Wright brothers claim. But when the Wright brothers showed their stuff (about 1908) those doubters who had carped the loudest conceded the truth of the Wright Brother's claims.



By the way, the Wright brothers' initial flight was witnessed by six other people uninvolved with their project. Santos-Dumont, while a pioneer in his own right, was not first. There are legitimate limits as to what the Wright Brothers accomplished. They were only the first controlled self-powered heavier than air craft, but seeing as that's the generally accepted definition of airplane, they get the name recognition. Gliders were decades ahead of the Wright brothers, the Montgolfier brothers balloons, over a century. But those were all hobbyist curiosities, something for dilettantes to fawn over. The Wright Brothers built upon all of the work that came before them, and improved it enough to make something useful out of it that revolutionized flight, and made flight useful.



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I don't often agree with Bill Bennett, but he gets it right here: Bennett: Most around world still believe in America



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Old jokes come to life: Man accused of having relations with dog. He will never be known as Mike the barman, or Mike the dock builder.



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Diebold Source Code Leaked Again. Or maybe not. Buried 12 paragraphs down:

Diebold said the source code was for BallotStation 4.3.15C, which is no longer being used in the U.S., and for GEMS 1.18.19, which is being used in a "limited number of jurisdictions."

So the correct headline, as far as I can tell, would be "Former Diebold source code leaked again"



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My Hero: Fighting spirit saves pensioner from attack



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Disturbing if true: The Kennedy KGB letter Updated with info about the NIE leak



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Q and O has a nice article in which both he and Justice Scalia examine why the judiciary needs to be both independent and limited, and the less limited they are, the less independent they should be.



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Sounding Taps (via Mudville)



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Thank you to the nice lady who asked me a question I could use for a last minute article for tomorrow. I had a family emergency and didn't have anything until she asked her question.