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Entries from May 2002

May 28th, 2002 · Comments Off

Aaron Straup Cope sent me a link to this Washington Times story that identifies the reporter Bush mocked as NBC White House correspondent David Gregory. The story even includes some special bonus right wing spin on Bush’s non-answer to Gregory’s question, just as you’d expect from that paper.

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May 28th, 2002 · Comments Off

More Bush fun: here’s Dana Milbank’s recap of the President’s summer vacation.

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May 28th, 2002 · Comments Off

Here’s the transcript of the press conference. I had forgotten about the part where President Bush chided President Chirac for calling on an American reporter (”I’ll call on the Americans”). Here’s the prize segment, though, where an American reporter asks a question in French, only to be mocked by Bush, who then goes [...]

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May 28th, 2002 · Comments Off

Our President (yes, I shudder when I say that) put on one of his better ignorant frat boy performances at a press conference in France over the weekend. I’m still looking for a full transcript of the press conference, but the story filed by the AP’s White House correspondent will have to do for [...]

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May 27th, 2002 · Comments Off

There are going to be a ton of parties celebrating the release of Mozilla 1.0, but the coolest has to be the one at some dude’s house in Karachi, Pakistan.

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May 27th, 2002 · Comments Off

A mammoth new mall opened here a few weeks ago, and I heard last week that there was an Apple Store in it, so I managed to make my way over there yesterday. I figured out why I keep buying PCs instead of Macs — because I don’t know anybody who has the latest [...]

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May 27th, 2002 · Comments Off

A test of the Visionics face recognition system in Palm Beach International Airport has been a failure. Not only did the system fail to flag the people it was supposed to, but it also generated a bunch of false positives. This outcome was totally predictable, and in fact, was predicted by Bruce Schneier [...]

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May 26th, 2002 · Comments Off

Bad Thomas Friedman, Bad! It looks like Thomas Friedman is

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May 25th, 2002 · Comments Off

Obviously Pakistan has to deal with a growing crisis with India, but there are plenty of domestic problems there as well. FEER has an article on Pervez Musharraf’s lack of public support since the fake election that was held at the end of April. Apparently the referendum held to elect Musharraf president for [...]

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May 24th, 2002 · Comments Off

The truth is out there: posts on Yahoo’s message boards warned investors of Enron’s problems as early as 1999. Unfortunately, and unsurprisingly, nobody was able to separate the signal from the massive amounts of noise that clot the message boards every day.

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