Frank recently wrote me:

I knew I should have freaking printed it out! Ok, when I checked out the link earlier today there was a graphic depicting an outline of the United states that was filled in with the American flag. On the bottom of that graphic it said something like "This site has been hacked by the Clear Patriot (something something, it was like a five word patriotic sounding name)" And below that in big letters it said "God Bless Our Troops!" Scary. Really scary.

Josh, could you please explain to me what root is? Additionally, could you tell me what a "dos" attack is and/or put it on your site. I understand that it's important, I just don't know what it means.

Well, he wasn't seeing things. As per requested, here's a first draft of my explanation: information warfare for dummies. Please follow up with me on this anyone. What is unclear, what else do you want to know, what is good? Send me an email or post a comment.

Also, the Yellow Times (who contacted me in January for the purposes of having me re-publish some of their articles) have been shut down by their ISP for posting objectionable pictures, in particular the American POWs. This is just plain old pirivate-company censorship. This is the equivalent of a network refusing to run an ad; not an intrusive act of government but chilling nontheless.