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CAIRO (AP) -- Egypt celebrated the army's 2013 overthrow of an Islamist president with a new national holiday on Thursday, a day that also saw a series of deadly militant attacks in Sinai and clashes with smugglers near the nation's porous border with Libya. In Cairo, warplanes flew overhead in honor of the holiday as supporters of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi - who as defense minister led the ouster of Mohammed Morsi three years ago - planned rallies later in the day. more detail at link.

When the last leap second was added in 2012 Mozilla, Reddit, Foursquare, Yelp, LinkedIn, and StumbleUpon all reported crashes and there were problems with the Linux operating system and programmes written in Java. In Australia, more than 400 flights were grounded as the Qantas check-in system crashed. Experts at Britain’s National Physical Laboratory (NPL) who will officially add the second to UK time, warned that markets which are already jittery from Greece could suffer transaction delays if their software was not prepared. “There are consequences of tinkering with time,” said Peter Whibberley, Senior Research Scientist in the Time and Frequency...

Survey. Who will control Iraq?

Another Modest Proposal by Bob Redman -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh no, not another modest proposal. Oh yes, but this one is not in any way, shape, or form elliptical. In the service of the Republican reelection campaign and our efforts to discipline the middle-eastern terrorists, and in the interest of the nation, after the limited turnover of sovereignty on 30 June to whatever is left of the Iraqi Governing Council, it will be time for us to cut and run in Iraq. Don't panic. I don’t suggest that we run very far; only as far as secured bases in northern Iraq. This...