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Jason Perkins sent me a link to Mastodonte Referrer Advertising, a referrer spamming service, in response to my earlier item about referrer spam.

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For whatever reason, I’ve not been pleased with “The West Wing” this season. At one time, it was my favorite show between seasons of “The Sopranos”. Apparently, I’m not the only one who thinks the show isn’t as good as it once was. Yesterday, the New York Times ran an article speculating on [...]

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Today, I’m looking at RSS parsers written in Java. Anyone have any suggestions? I’ve found Informa and a bunch of other RSS-related projects in Java. I’m still getting a feel for the landscape.

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As regular readers know, I’ve been casting occasional glances at the battle between Anil Dash and the readers of the Little Green Footballs weblog. You also know that I have no respect for most of the bigoted drivel that finds its way onto the front page at LGF, and is pervasive in the comments [...]

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Several Democratic Congressmen are trying to prevent code developed by federally funded research projects from being released under the GPL because it might discourage commercial interests from adopting it. There’s an argument to be made there, but the Congressmen do a poor job of making it. They’re 100% correct in citing TCP/IP as an [...]

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TheServerSide.com, the SlashDot of the J2EE world, now sports a couple of RSS feeds. I can never remember to hit the site regularly, so having an RSS feed available will certainly make life ever so slightly easier for me. Now all I need is RSS feeds from KernelTrap and LWN. Oh, and a Cafe [...]

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The Washington Post has a nice little compilation of recent lies and half truths from President Bush on various subjects. The most frustrating thing to me about the run up to war in Iraq is that the Bush administration refuses to make an honest, persuasive argument in favor of war. I read logical, well presented [...]

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The New York Times ran a review of The Threatening Storm, by Kenneth M Pollack, this weekend. It makes the case for invading Iraq, but also provides a wealth of background information on the history of the region, and Saddamn and America’s (mis)conduct. I’m currently reading this book, and plan on saying a few [...]

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I’m just going to rename rc3.org the John Gruber annex, because I can’t seem to resist linking to everything he posts over at Daring Fireball. Hell, I don’t even own a Mac and I can’t stay away. In any case, today he sheds some light on the MacWorld tiff.

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An Unbiased Review of Debian 3.0 was an article that was featured on Slashdot yesterday, which was largely a big rant about the suckitude of the Debian installer. Reading the review, I had mixed feelings. Personally, I’ve never had good luck with Debian. I know lots of people love it, and bully for them, [...]

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