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The rhetoric between India and Pakistan is becoming increasingly heated, and America seems to be as close as possible to turning a blind eye toward the impending conflict. An all out war between India and Pakistan is likely to feature the use of nuclear weapons and millions of civilian casualties, and it doesn’t seem [...]

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I figured out a small mystery with the Daypop Top 40 Links page today. I had been wondering for the past week or so (although not enough to actually investigate) why the link to the Pyra advertising page was near the top of the list of popular links. It just occurred to me [...]

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Context for President Bush’s tour of Europe, courtesy of the Washington Post: Resurfacing Animosity Awaits Bush in Europe. The Economist has a preview of the trip as well.

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Here’s what we refer to as reaping what you sow. For some reason, the geniuses at AOL decided they’d been too long without a real browser release, so they took a half baked milestone version of Mozilla and called it Netscape 6.0. They’ve since made their way all the way to Netscape 6.2, [...]

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My Palestinian next door neighbors were featured in the local paper this week. The article was not to their liking, I’m not sure what specifically bothered them though.

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What conclusions can we draw from the fact that the Arab press seems to be moving away from referring to suicide bombers as martyrs? At first glance, this seems like an encouraging sign.

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I think everybody has used a script from Matt’s Script Archive at one time or another. Unfortunately, the scripts have not been updated since 1996, and they’re rife with bugs and security holes, the most egregious being that the famed formmail script can be exploited to relay spam. Some guys created drop in [...]

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The royalties that were to be imposed on Web radio have been rejected.This is, of course, good news.

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Eldred v. Ashcroft is a web site that covers a case challenging the most recent extension of copyrights by 20 years. The prime mover in the repeated extensions of copyright protection is Disney’s desire to avoid losing the exclusive rights to El Raton Mickey. Unfortunately, these extensions prevent every other creative work that [...]

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How serious is Israel about making peace with the Palestinians? One might look at the Israeli government’s massive subsidies for settlement and assume that there’s really no interest in peace at all, or at least in a peace outside the Palestinians simply giving up and doing whatever Israel’s government wants.

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