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I find the Unisys/Microsoft ad campaign deriding Unix as inflexible to be good for a laugh. Obviously it’s aimed at idiots, but that’s never hurt an advertising campaign.

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Thomas Friedman: Suicidal Lies

Let’s be very clear: Palestinians have adopted suicide bombing as a strategic choice, not out of desperation. This threatens all civilization because if suicide bombing is allowed to work in Israel, then, like hijacking and airplane bombing, it will be copied and will eventually lead to a bomber strapped with a nuclear [...]

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So I finally got around to reading The Great Terror, a long article from the New Yorker by Jeffrey Goldberg. It’s a wide ranging article that covers Iraq’s chemical (and possibly biological) attacks on its Kurdish population back in 1988. It goes on to talk a bit about the miserable history of the [...]

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Yahoo played a dirty trick on its users recently by “resetting” all of their marketing preferences — in other words, turning them all on, regardless of what you had chosen earlier. An alert Slashdotter caught this, and submitted instructions for turning them off. I use Yahoo for a lot of things because [...]

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Eric Alterman has a handy list of columnists broken down based on whether they support Israel or the Palestinians. It may be useful to people who are reading a column and don’t know where the author’s general bias lies, but I can’t say that any of the names on the list surprised me.

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Paul Krugman reviews David Brock’s book on the vast right-wing conspiracy, Blinded by the Right today in his column, and manages to whine a bit more about his own persecution at the hands of Andrew Sullivan, without mentioning Sullivan by name.

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Bud Selig is the Jack Valenti of the sporting world — he’s the commissioner of Major League Baseball, and is utterly bent on alienating fans and destroying baseball. This man is so venal, and so stupid, and so incompetent that literally anyone reading this page could do his job better than he does. Never [...]

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NewsForge has a review of the bootable business card, a Linux distribution that fits on a business card sized CD.

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Stepwise has an article on AspectJ, an aspect-oriented programming implementation for Java. (It’s a replacement for javac that can compile aspects.) It’s a pretty good illustration of how AOP works, but not such a great illustration of where it provides value. Still, the whole AOP thing probably bears further examination.

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Daniel Pipes doesn’t hold much hope for the Arab Summit this week. He’s right about one thing, until Arabs truly accept Israel’s existence, there can be no long term solutions.

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