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Looks like people are finally getting the kick in the pants they needed to move to Ogg Vorbis. I shall begin re-ripping my MP3 collection post haste.

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The conventional wisdom thusfar has been that Secretary of the Army Tom White was just a gladhander in his Enron days and wasn’t really involved in the whole white collar crime thing. However, Salon has a story today claiming that White was the decision maker when it came to covering up losses of the [...]

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As you’d expect, the Detroit Free Press has a very detailed article on the four men indicted on terrorism charges yesterday, including details on their capture and what they’re accused of. This is the first terrorism indictment handed down since the government began rounding people up after 9/11.

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I just finished reading High Stakes, No Prisoners: A Winner’s Tale of Greed and Glory in the Internet Wars, by Charles H Ferguson. First, let me say that I recommend that you read business books years after they’re printed. Business writers cover their topics fully armed with conventional wisdom and the benefit of hindsight, so [...]

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I confess that I’ve mostly lost interest in the various antitrust cases in which Microsoft is embroiled, mainly because I just don’t think any of the cases are going to amount to much when it’s all said and done. We all know Microsoft has a monopoly in several key markets, and we all know [...]

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I just want to take a moment to applaud Dan Hartung on this post, which describes in full (and captivating) detail, the nature and origins of Noam Chomsky’s political philosophy. It makes me want to sit down and categorize myself sometime, but I think that would require a lot of research that I don’t feel [...]

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The Congressional Budget Office announced yesterday that it’s deficits as far as the eye can see for the federal government, because tax receipts are way down. Remember when President Bush pushed through that juicy tax cut because of those big surpluses and it’s our money after all? The Republicans of course want to pin [...]

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Slate comments on the utter hideousness of the state quarters, with illustrations. They did seem like a good idea when they were announced. The commentary on Maryland’s quarter is particularly humorous:

State politicians in Maryland and Pennsylvania have so lost touch with their citizens that they actually put the state capitol building on their [...]

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Salon has an interview today with Diane Raines Ward, the author of the book Water Wars, which is about the growing scarcity of fresh water. I don’t know about you, but the idea of ongoing, extreme scarcity of a resource that most of us who don’t live in the desert take for granted really freaks [...]

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Mozilla 1.1 is out. You know you want it. There are a number of nifty updates in Mozilla 1.1, the best being that now the various sub-apps have real icons. When you have them open, you can look at your task bar and actually see what’s running. It looks like ESPN’s Web site [...]

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