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Ian Hickson has the best summary of the terms of the AOL/Microsoft deal.

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The Department of Defense recorded the Paul Wolfowitz inteview with Vanity Fair reporter Sam Tannenhouse that’s getting lots of play, and they’ve posted a transcript on the DefenseLink Web site. Unsurprisingly, the comments that have been widely quoted seem less sinister when taken in context. In the further interests of fairness, here’s President Bush’s interview [...]

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How desperate is the Bush administration? Based on the two trailers that were found, Bush is now telling people that we’ve found banned weapons. Fred Kaplan has a useful piece on the search for weapons which says that the trailers might actually have been used for the purpose that the Iraqi officials claim — [...]

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Eric Rudolph, the white supremacist and general purpose hater who is believed to have been behind the bombing at the Olympics in Atlanta and several other bombings has been captured. The most interesting thing to me about this case is that it demonstrates just how hard it will ever be to capture someone like Osama [...]

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Jake Tapper has a story in Salon today about the missing WMD. Apparently in other countries where people care whether or not their leaders lie to them about the most important matters possible, people are somewhat furious that we have not yet found WMDs, and that the administration is now distancing itself from the idea [...]

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Lots of attention has been paid recently to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the Congo. Bruce Rolston has the best summary of the story so far over at Flit. I tend to agree with Rolston that kicking the Rwandans and Ugandans out of the eastern part of Congo was a poor idea, and I agree [...]

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Of interest to Java developers: Eclipse Project Draft 3.0 Plan.

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Looks like Saddam’s bunker, our first target in the invasion of Iraq, doesn’t exist. How do you like them apples?

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Looks like the end result of Microsoft and AOL settling their lawsuit is that everyone else will settle for less competition in the marketplace. Looks like AOL is signed on for seven years of royalty-free usage of Internet Explorer within their craptastic client as part of the case. I wonder whether this means AOL will [...]

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This is a pointer to yet another WMD post. However, because it’s the best ever, you won’t mind. (Via Anil Dash.) Update: I think that the Wolfowitz comments that have come out are worth further discussion. From the Reuters article:

Wolfowitz said another reason for the invasion had been “almost unnoticed but huge” — namely that [...]

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