Slate

I've been enthralled by Slate over the last few days, having just gotten around to reading any of it. It's really a stunning array of work - like a proper newspaper but for the internet world and taking advantage of the speed and added linking advantages that the 'net provides. The coverage of the Edinburgh festival has been superb, whilst the featurettes about the Presidential candidates for 2004 have been superb. These political snippits mean I don't have to wade through the numerous articles detailing every last part of the the candidate's campaign, but can gain some kind of digested view, meaning that I actually DO find out about them, rather than just becoming too bored by their apparent sameness. It's not that i didn't TRY to read Slate before, but normally, for some unknown reason, the pages take about 10 minutes to load. I kid you not - they really do, and that's if they load at all. And this is with broadband. So when the excellent article by Fred Kaplan about Bush's much lauded Missile Defense Program came through perfectly, I was thrilled. More so of course with the content of the piece which is a thorough picking through of the technical impossibilities that the program has shown up. Read it here.