BUSINESS WEEK: Beyond Blogs.

BITES FROM THE APPLE: A roundup of Apple computer and electronics news.

RAND SIMBERG ENCOUNTERS Saganite extremists!

AN OPEN LETTER TO SENATOR OBAMA, on Iran.

UPDATE: Related item here.

HILLARY RAISES RFK, D-DAY AS REASONS TO STAY IN RACE. Plus, Remember the Maine!

UNLIKELY PRAISE FOR RUSH LIMBAUGH . . . on peanut allergies.

IT ONLY HURTS WHEN I BLOG: Major John Tammes suffers an injury. Send him your best wishes. Can you get a Purple Heart for that?

NOT ACTUALLY THE FIRST SPACE LAWYER, but the first American certificate in space law.

J.D. JOHANNES: Memorial Day in Iraq.

IN THE MAIL: Ashaf Ghani and Clare Lockhart’s Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World.

SAY IT AIN’T SO: Kanjorski says Dems were insincere about ending war. Read the whole thing.

ELIOT SPITZER WAS UNAVAILABLE FOR COMMENT: More Troopergate fallout. Are these suicides evidence of deeper problems?

PROOF OF large-scale global warming. Emphasis on the “large.”

ANOTHER POTENTIAL ALTERNATIVE TO A GENERATOR for backup power, though I doubt it will run a refrigerator for very long. The price isn’t bad, though.

DRINKING AND DRIVING for public safety!

A NANOTECHNOLOGY BREAKTHROUGH? Waferscale self-assembly of nanostructures.

SEEMS TO ME HE GOT OFF KIND OF LIGHT:

An Atlanta police officer convicted of lying to investigators about the Kathryn Johnston shooting was sentenced Thursday to four years and six months in prison, as well as six months on probation. . . .

Police detective Arthur Bruce Tesler, 42, spoke on his own behalf at the sentencing hearing. Earlier this week, he was convicted of lying but acquitted of two other charges stemming from the botched drug raid in which the 92-year-old Johnston was killed in a hail of police gunfire.

“I’m truly sorry for what happened,” Tesler said. “I want to do as much as I can to see that it never happens again.” Tesler said he hopes the community around Johnston’s Neal Street home and her family can heal. . . . Johnston was fatally shot after she fired at police as they burst into her residence using a “no-knock” warrant. Tesler, stationed at the rear of the house, fired no shots but admitted in court that he participated in a cover-up of the illegal warrant and of the planting of narcotics in the house to hide the wrongdoing.

The raid wasn’t just botched. It was corrupt. Nobody who killed a cop under similar circumstances would be likely to do as well.

AMERICA’S CONTRIBUTION TO the world’s energy supply.

THOUGHTS ON SOME new technologies likely to boost the economy in the 21st Century.

“LITTLE DO THEY KNOW, they’re part of this movie.”