Doleful Daschle. The majority leader misquotes Bob Dole, and Democrats struggle to slow the Iraq juggernaut. [Salon.com]

Kurdish Islamic leader held. The leader of an Iraq-based Kurdish Islamic group suspected of having links with the al-Qaeda network is detained in the Netherlands. [BBC News | WORLD]

Reuters: “Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov warned Baghdad on Friday to cooperate with the United Nations or face the consequences.” [Scripting News]

Intel-server debate a pain for industry. The chip giant and ServerWorks, the chief maker of chipsets for Intel-based servers, can’t agree on an important design issue–and that’s bad news for HP, Dell and other server makers. [CNET News.com]

Ray Ozzie talks about wireless technology.

Qatar of 2 Minds About a War, Envoy Says. The foreign minister of Qatar said on Thursday that his nation opposes war against Iraq, but he did not rule out the possibility that Qatar would allow the U.S. to use its military bases to launch such an attack. By James Dao. [New York Times: Politics]

U.S. to Rejoin Unesco’s Fold After 18 Years. President Bush announced on Thursday that the U.S. would rejoin the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, which it quit 18 years ago. [New York Times: Politics]

Technology Review: Data Extinction. Both are faced with the knowledge that current methods for preserving digital things work poorly, even in the short term. Just how bad is the problem? Examples of digital things lost forever abound, some personal in scale, some global. [Tomalak’s Realm]

New Scientist: Tissue engineers grow penis in the lab [lnk.to]

BigIdeaFUN.com – Penguins – Arcade – Spaced Penguin! [lnk.to]