LIKE A HURRICANE: A new episode of Silicon Graffiti.

COLD WAR? Russia threatens to seize swathe of Arctic.

ROGER SIMON: “If I were the McCain campaign, I’d be rushing Ron Silver (or similar) on a plane to Miami right now to talk to his Jewish mishpocheh (extended family) in Florida about one of the strangest actions yet in this bizarre political season. Hillary Clinton has pulled out of a demonstration (by Jewish organizations) at the UN against Ahmadinejad because Sarah Palin will be attending! . . . The first thing that came into my mind is that Hillary was trying to sabotage Obama.” But that wasn’t the second thing.

HOW THE CHEVY VOLT might affect the electric grid.

TRACKING THE Sarah Palin email hacker. “To prevent abuse of the service – such as the occasional bomb threat or other illegal act that’s been known to happen – Ramuglia logs each user’s IP address, along with the time and web destination. That often isn’t enough to track down people who access extremely popular websites. But in this case, the perpetrators included a whole string of random-looking characters when posting screenshots of Palin’s hacked account. That will probably be enough for him to pinpoint the proverbial needle in the haystack.” It’ll be interesting to see who was behind this. . . .

Related item here.

UPDATE: Rick Moran calls this “a new low.”

USING RED-LIGHT AND SPEED CAMERAS together with tag-reading OCR software to track drivers nationwide. It’s like that was the plan all along.

MORE ON CANCER THERAPY using nanotechnology.

IN THE MAIL: Brad O’Leary’s The Audacity of Deceit: Barack Obama’s War on American Values. I expect there’ll be more like this coming out over the next month or so. I always wonder who buys these books, though.

MEGAN MCARDLE: “I knew that rent controls have frozen a great deal of New York’s housing stock, but I had no idea how much.”

Related item here.

JOE BIDEN: PAYING HIGHER TAXES is patriotic!

Meanwhile, Michael Silence looks at Biden’s minuscule charitable donations and comments: “Boy, talk about reinforcing the ‘stereotype’ of spending someone else’s money.”

INSTA-POLL:

WIRED: The Volt Isn’t a Prius: It Could Even Be Better. Let’s hope.

EYES ON THE PRIZE: The clear economic vision of Sen. Chris Dodd.

Plus, Obama flipflops on commissions. He was for them before he was against them!

YET ANOTHER CHARLES RANGEL SCANDAL. They just keep coming . . . .

UPDATE: Meanwhile, does Dana Perino use the same accountant? Is there anyone in DC who can manage money?

GOOD NEWS: Study confirms X-ray alternative to colonoscopy. Though it doesn’t sound quite ready for prime time to me.

NINE QUESTIONS FOR MacGyver.

A ROUNDUP OF FOOD NEWS TO GO.

ROLE REVERSAL: “The irony is great: the mean, nasty old-style politican with little positive to say about specific solutions used to be what Obama was running against. Now McCain can run against that guy.”

AN OBAMA TONGUE SLIP:

In a revealing slip in an interview with ABC recently, Mr. Obama said, “If we’re going to ask questions about who has been promulgating negative ads that are completely unrelated to the issues at hand, I think I win that contest pretty handily.”

Heh.

WASHINGTON POST: Obama Exaggerates His Influence On Stimulus Plan.

A LOOK AT THE Asus N10 mini-laptop. Much more than an Eee PC, but still small and cheap.

GERARD VAN DER LEUN ON THE ALL-CAPSLOCK ELECTION.

MARKETERS VS. ENGINEERS in the megapixel race.

AN INTERESTING car crash timeline from Tom Vanderbilt.

PALIN TAKES QUESTIONS at McCain town hall.