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Blogger Kevin Werbach wrote an interesting piece for Slate today that provides a more nuanced analysis of FCC chairman Michael Powell’s regulatory agenda. I’m up for anything that will get a tech industry out of the crapper.

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Johnny Paycheck died in his sleep last night. He was particularly emblematic of the time when country musicians were the outlaws of the music industry.

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So I just saw a pointer to this letter by Laurie Garrett, a first hand dispatch from the World Economic Forum in Davos. She says she didn’t intend the letter for public consumption, but I don’t really care at this point since everybody already knows about it. In it she says that the [...]

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Here in lovely North Carolina, a country club has tossed all its French and German wines because they’re not “supporting our troops.” Is it just me, or is accusing someone of not supporting the troops the lowest refuge of people mentally incapable of formulating a coherent argument in favor of their opinion? As I’ve said [...]

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There’s a new thread at Advogato suggesting a database containing links to all the world’s Javadoc. I think this is a brilliant idea, and it has the added value of being completely implementable, because of the Java’s clever way of avoiding namespace collisions in package names. Bad citizens can create namespace collisions, but the system [...]

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Danny O’Brien posted an explanation of what happened with the Jhai PC that was sent out by the people working on the project. I’m posting this to follow up on my question about the caption from the Jhai PC photo that went out over the wire. (A couple of readers have sent this to [...]

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North Korea upped the saber rattling ante today, saying that if the US imposes penalties on them, then they’ll pull out of the 1953 armistice that ended the Korean war. The White House dismissed the threat.

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Am I the only person who programs in Java every day and finds absolutely no use for the Java Developer Connection? Someone pointed me at a bug report that you need to log in to see today, and I realized that I had completely forgotten my password. I know I signed up for JDC at [...]

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Scott Rosenberg cautions Salon naysayers that rumors of their demise are once again greatly exaggerated. Basically, he says they’re seeking new investment, and when they get it, they’ll be OK. People who have doubted Salon’s resilience in the past have not been rewarded, so I’ll go ahead and assume that they’ll continue to trudge onward.

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The huge turnout worldwide at the anti-war protests this weekend (which Bush shrugged off, as expected) has captured my attention. The question for Americans has to be how we can interpret the fact that people all over the world (some say as many as 6 million) took to the streets to urge us not to [...]

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