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Somehow I just find it funny that someone whose music is too bad to steal would be fronting an anti-piracy campaign.

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John Gruber’s interview with shareware author Maarten Hekkelman is interesting for many reasons. I was going to pull some specific quotes, but it’s probably worth reading end to end.

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I just wanted to congratulate Brent Simmons on NetNewsWire Lite 1.0. I don’t use it because I don’t have a Mac, but judging from my log files, plenty of other people are. It was just released recently, and it has leapt to the top of the list of RSS aggregators that people are [...]

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Nick Denton makes a good point about the algorithm that generates the Google News home page: it discriminates against exclusives. In other words, it’s not yet perfect. Think about this, though, how can a human being keep up with exclusives anyway? I mean, I generally hit Today’s Papers at Slate every day, which points [...]

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Researchers in Montana have trained bees to find land mines. The article fails to mention one of the key benefits of using bees instead of dogs or people to find mines — bees don’t weigh enough to set off the mines if they make a mistake.

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In addition to saying some really stupid things about Jews, Dick Armey also had this to say:

Liberals are in my estimation just not bright people. They don’t think deeply; they don’t comprehend; they don’t understand. … They have a narrow educational base, as opposed to the hard scientists.

This from the man who is the poster [...]

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I kicked in my $25 for Trillian Pro today. It’s worth the cash, and besides that, those guys have been doing good work for awhile now. One thing I noticed is that there’s an RSS plugin for Trillian Pro available that I haven’t yet messed with. It looks promising, though.

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eWeek is reporting that IBM with Apple on a new 64 bit processor called the GPUL. Given that the performance disparity between the G4 and x86 processors growing, Apple needs a way out. A new processor from IBM makes more sense than moving Mac OS X to the x86 architecture, not only because such [...]

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Dave Johnson recaps the Triange JUG J2EE Container Shootout from last night. After reading his summary, I wish I had gone. As I’ve said before, I’m utterly mystified by J2EE, and furthermore, I’m a big fan of relational databases. I feel like I need to buy a good book on J2EE and [...]

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Reviews of the British report on the threat Iraq poses seem to be mixed. Certainly it doesn’t seem that there’s anything in there that we don’t already know. Iraq’s “culture minister” dismissed the report as part of a “Zionist campaign against Iraq.” One would hope that the Iraqi government could come up with a [...]

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