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The Bush administration has appointed several new members to a Presidential commission on AIDS and HIV. They’ve picked a board member from gay/lesbian advocacy group, an AIDS advisor to the world bank, a state public health officer, and some guy who refers to AIDS as the ‘gay plague‘. How’s that for diversity? Jerry Thacker, an [...]

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The USA Today story on SimDesk vs. Microsoft Office that’s probably getting linked to everywhere is certainly worth reading. After Microsoft tried to strong arm the city of Houston into signing up for a subscription to Office, they went elsewhere and wound up signing on with a Web-based provider of productivity apps called SimDesk. [...]

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Robert Young Pelton, the author of The World’s Most Dangerous Places (one of my favorite books ever), is currently being held by Colombian guerillas after being kidnapped in Panama. Pelton has travelled to many of the world’s hot zones, and if anyone can get out of a situation like this on their own, it’s him. [...]

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Is it just me, or do I read about a different nasty provision of the DMCA every day? Today’s onerous bit is that the DMCA enables the RIAA to demand the names of people sharing music from ISPs without filing a lawsuit. A federal judge has upheld this interpretation of the law, which opens [...]

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Could this campaign against Nike’s streaker ad be any more inane? If you want to gripe about Nike’s unfair labor practices, be my guest, but this is just stupid.

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Seymour Hersh has written the definitive to date article on the makings of our crisis with North Korea. If you need a distraction from our buildup to war with Iraq, this article is a must read.

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I tried out Syndirella today, or I should say that I tried to try it out, but it crashes on startup. Maybe I’ll wait for the next release, since I don’t know how to get .NET apps to generate a stack trace when they blow up.

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Is “Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful the last “considered harmful” essay that we ever need to see? Probably.

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Farhad Manjoo has a story at Salon on the ongoing battle between Java and .NET. One thing he doesn’t seem to address is that despite the battle for supremacy, this isn’t a winner take all fight. There are no doubt billions of lines of Java code floating around, and as time passes the best features [...]

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For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been thinking that war with Iraq has become inevitable. Personally, I think that the timing is downright poor, and our justification is still thin, but we’re seeing the troop movements that have to take place before we could realistically invade, and the media is whipping everyone into [...]

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