and you thought video games were a waste of time!

The New York Times has an interesting story about our use of drones against al Qaeda (or 'Qaeda' as the NYT headline writer prefers to call them, presumably so we won't conflate them with al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, wherever that might be). Meanwhile, it seems that the Iranians have been sending surveillience drones over Iraq, and that the US has been shooting them down. Well, one drone anyhow.

What goes around comes around. Blue skies! -- Dan Ford