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The EFF is encouraging us to thank Gateway for its very public stance in favor of basic fair use rights when it comes to music.

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JDS Uniphase step aside, AOL-Time Warner managed to post a $54 billion loss last quarter.

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Israel Asks: Is It Time for Arafat to Leave?, Tracy Wilkinson in the LA Times. Apparently Sharon is considering once again exiling Arafat from the occupied territories. It’s like we’re iterating over a loop here.

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For those of you living in the Microsoft world, Bob Rossney has published a set of tutorial articles on (MS) XML: XML for Grownups.

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Self-preservation, as defined by the house of Saud:

It is a mistake to think that our people will not do what is necessary to survive and if that means we move to the right of bin Laden, so be it; to the left of Qaddafi, so be it; or fly to Baghdad and embrace Saddam like [...]

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I just finished reading Mrs. Greenthumbs Plows Ahead: Five Steps to the Drop-Dead Gorgeous Garden of Your Dreams, by Cassandra Danz, and I have to say that as far as authors go, she’s my new hero. Not only was the book amazingly informative, but her writing style is funny, and irreverent, and completely accessible. [...]

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I haven’t been linking to Bill Gates testimony stories because for some reason I just don’t care. I haven’t had the energy to read a single story describing his testimony or the questions he’s being asked. Nobody is more surprised by this development than me.

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Rogers sent along a link to Iraq Watch, a US-based anti-nuclear group that is keeping track of Iraq’s efforts to build weapons of mass destruction. You don’t have to do much digging to find that there are all sorts of open sources gathering intelligence about whatever interests you and posting it on the Internet. As [...]

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AT&T is shutting down the research lab at Cambridge University that it bought from Olivetti. Yet another sad story in the demise of corporate R&D. For all the bad things you can say about Microsoft, one of the good things the company does is pour a lot of money into pure research. They [...]

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The scuttlebutt according to Talking Points Memo is that Karen Hughes is really leaving for the reasons she says she is. He also has some juicy stuff on Ari Fleischer’s impending demise. It also seems to be the general consensus that Fleischer is both loathesome and incompetent — I’m glad I wasn’t alone [...]

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