Notebook sales exceeded desktop sales (in dollars) for the first time. Also, unit sales of LCD displays have overtaken CRTs.

I haven’t commented on the story about the missing flags at the French museum in Normandy, because everyone else was, but I do think it’s important to point out that there may be much less here than, literally, meets the eye. And in fact, one of Charles Johnson’s readers says that seems to be the case.

I’m second to none in my irritation, even anger with the French government, but there’s no need to be making hasty accusations on scant evidence.

I haven’t commented on the story about the missing flags at the French museum in Normandy, because everyone else was, but I do think it’s important to point out that there may be much less here than, literally, meets the eye. And in fact, one of Charles Johnson’s readers says that seems to be the case.

I’m second to none in my irritation, even anger with the French government, but there’s no need to be making hasty accusations on scant evidence.

I haven’t commented on the story about the missing flags at the French museum in Normandy, because everyone else was, but I do think it’s important to point out that there may be much less here than, literally, meets the eye. And in fact, one of Charles Johnson’s readers says that seems to be the case.

I’m second to none in my irritation, even anger with the French government, but there’s no need to be making hasty accusations on scant evidence.

You know, the amazing thing to me about the web, and blogs, is that you can go through the throngs, the batterings and unpredictabilities of life, with a great writer, in real time.

By the way, I could use a little, too, though it’s probably beyond the ability of my meager, but well-heeled readership to really support the cause right now.

Ex-General Clark, the “perfumed prince” in Colonel Hackworth’s estimation, was on Hannity and Colmes just now parroting the Democrat party line on Iraq, all the while refusing to declare a party affiliation, or political ambitions. Just how stupid does he think we are?

And how dumb is Hannity, to not call him on his comment a couple weeks ago that “progressive taxation was one of the founding principles of our nation”?

The mullahs must be getting worried as July 9 approaches–they are cracking down on the internet. The blogosphere should kick around some ideas for work arounds.

Anticipating multiple attempts in the next few months, the X-Prize Foundation has named a former astronaut as head of the judging panel.

Ralph Peters says the media (and the Democrats) continue to get it wrong on Iraq.

Kathy Sawyer has an article in the WaPo today about the fundamental problem with the shuttle (though one would think from the title of the piece–“Panel Decries View of Spaceflight as Routine”–that it’s one intrinsic to spaceflight itself).

The Shuttle has always been a development program, and many of us thought it absurd back in 1982 when it was declared “operational” by President Reagan in a ceremony at Edwards (which I attended). As the article points out, the Shuttle has had fewer total flights than an aircraft undergoing certification.

While I agree that as long as NASA continues to fly the Shuttle, they should do it in much more of an R&D mode, I fear that such criticism will make it harder to persuade people that space transports don’t have to be like the Shuttle.

The Shuttle was doomed to remain a vehicle forever in development back when it was being…well…developed, back in the 1970s. Once the fatal compromises of SRBs and non-flyback boosters, and aluminum skin and tiles, among others, were made, there was little hope of getting the low costs and fast turnaround necessary to get the high flight rates needed not only to prove out the concept, but to reduce per-flight costs.

To save a few billion dollars in that decade, we have since spent many billions in increased operations costs and lost vehicles, not to mention the tragedy of our myopically limited space program, relative to the much more vibrant one we might have had with a more robust low-cost design.