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There seem to be preliminary signs that VIM 6.0 is out, but the announcements all seem to have been pulled. Maybe they found a last minute showstopper.

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ABC affiliates are actually refusing to run Politically Incorrect since Bill Maher made the mistake of criticizing the United States on the air. See Arianna Huffington’s latest column for more.

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The Middle East Times: Addressing sources of Mideast violence against the U.S.:

Many of us accept the premise that terrorism is a phenomenon that can be defeated only by amelioration of the conditions that inspire it. Terrorism’s best asset, in the final analysis, is the anger and desperation that leads people to see no alternative to [...]

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The Sudanese government is rounding up known terrorists from Al Qaeda and other groups operating in the country. This is a sign that the diplomatic efforts made by the United States and other countries since 9/11 are working. The article does not specify what’s happening to these people once they’re rounded up. [...]

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The Liberty Alliance Project Sun’s answer to Microsoft Passport and America Online’s Magic Carpet. Some of the charter members are interesting, it includes lots of players from the corporate world. Several open source notables have also signed on. Rael Dornfest has posted a few thoughts about the project in his weblog.

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Primer on Raising Your International Literacy Rather than just complaining about the lack of literacy among Americans when it comes to international issues, I’ve decided to provide a short list of ways people can learn more about what’s going on in the world beyond our borders. Not only is it crucial to understand what’s going [...]

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Phil Agre has sent out what he says will be his last big collection of attack-related links.

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If you’re using XQL for anything, please drop me a line. I’m writing about it for a book project that I’m helping on, and I can’t seem to find anybody who’s actually using it in the real world.

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It’s a two-fer on Salon today. Laura Miller has an excellent article about the willful ignorance of Americans when it comes to foreign affairs. This has been a huge point of frustration for me for years (as regular readers can probably guess), but I certainly didn’t want the world to get our attention [...]

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Jake Tapper has a story on the deteriorating state of media relations in the White House. It turns out that Ari Fleischer was lying about Air Force One being a target of the terrorists (as everyone knew at the time), and about the plane that hit the Pentagon heading for the White House. [...]

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