Links 15/10/2004

• How Valium comes in handy during a war
• Does Al-Qaeda really exist?
  
• The "bullwhip effect" - the magnification of demand fluctuations as one moves up the supply chain
• Google launches a service to help you find files on your own computer. The download is small, but it seems to need 1GB of free space to install.
  
• Soweto turned 100
• The history of containerized shipping, using a networking analogy
• Swarm-semiotics - weird, but interesting
• Some links to linguistics articles and a link to this essay on sentence diagramming
• Is the MP3 format losing ground?
• A "battleground state" that no one really cares about
• Broadband over power lines gets boost from US government
  
• Wavelet tutorial links. I haven't checked any out yet though.
• A free online book on digital signal processing. I don't know how good it is, since I just started reading it today.
• A Muslim examination of Islamist suicide terrorism

I have the temporary use of a digital camera. I'll probably spend the weekend fiddling around with it.