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The news of the week was definitely Microsoft’s official announcement of Palladium in Steven Levy’s Newsweek article last week. Since the article went to print, the Internet has been abuzz with talk of the new platform, and the consensus seems to be that the untrusted person in this new computing paradigm is the person who [...]

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Howard J Bashman agrees with my take on the Supreme Court decision that allows schools to impose piss tests on basically everyone. Here’s the quote from How Appealing:

Justice Thomas’s majority opinion, standing alone, suggests to me that soon high schools will be allowed to conduct suspicionless drug testing of all students, not just students [...]

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David Greenbaum explains the historical context of the decision to add “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance back in 1954. Indeed, as I suspected, the decision was utterly and completely steepd in religion and was explicitly aimed at contrasting the fundamentally religious United States with the athiest communist leadership of the Soviet Union.

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Ann Coulter’s Libels In Slander is a weblog devoted to fact checking Ann Coulter’s new novel.

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I thought I was more or less shock-proof at this point, but some of these satirized propaganda posters by Micah Wright managed to make my jaw drop a little. That’s impressive! Interestingly, Wright is a veteran of the invasion of Panama, and a former member of the Second Ranger Battalion in the Army.

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Mozilla users should check out Financial Institutions and Mozilla Operability, which lists banks that do and don’t support Mozilla with their online banking applications. My personal bank account is at Bank of America, and it’s never given me any trouble at all when I access it using Mozilla. (It’s listed as compatible on [...]

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Here’s a priceless quote from Howard L Berman, a Democrat from California:

While p-to-p technology is free to innovate new and more efficient methods of distribution that further exacerbate the piracy problem, copyright owners are not equally free to craft technological responses. This is not fair.

A quick trip over to opensecrets.org illustrates exactly where Mr. Berman [...]

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Once again manufacturer hype has been proven to be just that when facial recognition technology was tested in a real world trial.

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Salon CEO Michael O’Donnel sent a concise statement to Jim Romenesko’s MediaNews rebutting the recent wire story talking about the magazine’s impending doom.

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Paul Krugman’s latest is on corporate corruption. What else?

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