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I can say with certainty that I will not vote for John Kerry for the Democratic Presidential nomination because of his pathetic, anti-intellectual hatchet job on Howard Dean. He can feel free to argue with Howard Dean, but to have his flack say that Dean is unfit to serve as Commander in Chief for stating [...]

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A French philosopher who went to Pakistan to investigate Daniel Pearl’s murder says he was kidnapped for the reasons everybody already knows, but that he was killed because he knew too much. Considering the past ties of Pakistan’s intelligence service with Osama bin Laden, terrorists in Afghanistan, and the terror groups that operate in Kashmir, [...]

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Looks like Saddam Hussein decided to write his own birthday card this year. Of course, if Saddam is grievously wounded or dead, as many speculate, the more interesting questions are who actually wrote the letter, and why they would do so.

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Something occurred to me last night about Apple’s new music service. The killer advantage here for Apple is that their DRM locks Mac users into the Mac platform for the long term. Maybe this will change, but right now you can only play the tracks purchased through Apple’s music service on a Mac. Once you’ve [...]

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Eric Sink wrote an interesting piece about how software developers must deal with the abstractions in their environment to deliver software. Unfortunately, toward the end he goes on a .NET vs. Java jag that really has nothing to do with his piece, and indeed was total and complete flame bait. Unsurprisingly, he follows up today [...]

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I don’t have much to say about the Apple music store. From what I’ve read, the DRM seems pretty heinous, which caused me to lose interest instantly. This Paul Boutin article isn’t bad.

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The Justice Department has pressed charges against Mike Hawash.

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Joe Conason busts Thomas Friedman for his WMD flip flop. Friedman, who once talked about things like international legitimacy and going to war under false pretenses, now seems to say that because Saddam Hussein was a brutal, murderous dictator, it’s all good. The truth is that WMD never really did matter, at least to the [...]

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Henry Blodget, the famous Merrill Lynch analyst/stock shiller who once predicted that Amazon.com’s shares would go to $400 has been banned from the securities business for life. He also had to forfeit a ton of cash, and is probably still richer than I’ll ever be.

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One of the many truly evil things Saddam Hussein did was drain the marshes in Southern Iraq as part of a program to suppress the “marsh Arabs” that had lived in that region for literally thousands of years. It looks like there’s talk of restoring the marshes, if possible. It’s going to take a lot [...]

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