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Palm OS 3.5 is finally available for Palm handhelds other than the ones that it comes on by default. Unfortunately, the upgrade costs $19.95. I’ll probably go ahead and spring for it for my Palm IIIx just because I like to have the latest software.

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Are you interested in working on an open source project for the good of the environment? EcoAccess is looking for interns this Spring to help them build tools for environmental research and education using Python and Zope.

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Here’s a good example of the pro-business defanging of pro-consumer legislation. The federal government is passing a new law greatly increasing the privacy standard for medical records, but the employers and insurance companies will be able to require patients to waive those privacy rights in order to be eligible for their health plan. [...]

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The USDA has finally issued its standard labelling organic food. Thanks to bunches of comments sent in by citizens (including my wife and I), the USDA scrapped an earlier, very lax version of the regulations that would have allowed things no right-thinking person would refer to as organic be labelled as such. Nice [...]

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I can’t remember if I linked to Mark Levine’s Q&A about the Supreme Court decision in Gore v. Bush, but I had problems with the earlier versions due to some errors of fact that I noticed. Apparently thousands of other people did, too, and let the author know about it. Anyway, here’s the [...]

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Hey, guess who got a mention in Salon today? If you’re visiting via the Salon link, I hope you’ll stick around.

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The saga of formerly high flying Internet consultancies crashing to earth continues. What happens when your earnings are lower than expected? You become a ripe target for shareholder lawsuits. Have shareholder lawsuits ever helped a company’s shareholders? Maybe they should be called “former shareholder lawsuits.” Both lawsuits were filed over the same [...]

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Dan Gillmor’s latest column excoriates venture capitalists and other dot com insiders for foisting weak companies with poor prospects onto the public markets in order to make lots of fast bucks. He’s right of course, but everybody knows it was all a big scam now. Where was this column a few years ago [...]

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Bob Stein at VisiBone sent me some really cool swag last week — a mouse pad and reference card with the browser-safe palette, and an HTML/CSS reference card. If you’re a Web designer by trade, I highly recommend his tools, they’ll make your job an awful lot easier. (And I’m not just saying that [...]

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Dubya is a Mac user. It really is the computer for the rest of us!

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