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Somebody inserted language in the Homeland Security Bill shielding Eli Lilly from lawsuits regarding their vaccines. TomPaine.com will give a $10,000 reward to the person who outs the person who did it.

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Clash guitarist Joe Strummer has died of a heart attack.

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I just wanted to say that I find the Perl Advent Calendar to be a beautifully geeky thing (via More Like This).

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The Coffee, Tea, or Should We Feel Your Pregnant Wife article is currently the hottest item in the blogging world. I first saw it yesterday, linked to from the Interesting People mailing list, and I’ve since seen plenty of links to it elsewhere. Is this story true and accurately reported? I have no idea. [...]

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Researchers have successfully grown new, working kidneys in mice using embryonic stem cells. Pretty darn amazing.

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There’s a tech column at the Washington Post that talks about the lack of innovation in the world of email applications. I’m glad to see that more people are noticing that since Microsoft took over the world of email, time stopped for innovation in email. The article doesn’t mention Chandler, which offers at least a [...]

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Tonight there’s a movie about abstinence tonight on MTV, called Everybody’s Doing It. The movie is silly, but it depicts the problem I have with abstinence education, which is that it’s offered as an alternative to other programs, rather than as a supplement to them. As the movie points out at the beginning, abstinence education [...]

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As we prepare to go to war with Iraq, bad, bad things are going down on the Korean peninsula. A candidate running on what amounts to an anti-American platform just won South Korea’s presidential election, and North Korea is thumbing its nose at America and the UN. It doesn’t bode well for the US foreign [...]

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Remember Donald Rumsfeld’s ambitious plan to get rid of obsolete weapons programs and modernize the military? So much for that. Actually defending the country is only one of the purposes of the defense budget. For all the crap we hear about smaller government and Republican belief in the free market, here in the [...]

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I don’t find it surprising me that a lot of the information about the Total Information Awareness program is disappearing from its Web site, because it was deeply disturbing. Declan McCullagh reports that the Web site is shrinking over time. First, information about some of the staffers disappeared. Since then, both the wierd illuminati logo [...]

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