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I think that the implications of the new Sony EyeToy could reach far beyond immersing people in their video games.

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Knowing next to nothing about soccer and little more about England has not prevented me from becoming fascinated with the David Beckham phenomenon. The closest analogue I can come up with in the US is Michael Jordan, and they’re not even really that close. David Beckham is a good soccer player — Michael Jordan is the [...]

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Struts 1.1 is out. Here’s a link to the release notes.

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Yeah, spam is ruining email, but so will the widespread deployment of challenge-response systems for dealing with spam. Patrick Nielsen Hayden posted a first hand account of this problem. I’ve only ever sent email to one person who had put such a system in place (ironically, I was responding to an email that they had [...]

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Eric Sink has a brief piece explaining some version control features that many users just ignore. You know, reading it makes me think of a good interview question for software developers: how does branching in version control work and why would you want to use it? This enables you to determine whether the person you’re [...]

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Tom Friedman has a remarkably depressing column on what pervasive Internet access and robust search engines mean for the future. His take is that it means people who hate the United States will be able to connect more easily and band together to do mean things to us. His real point is to just say [...]

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Nick Bradbury’s FeedDemon beta release has arrived. Update: I need to figure out how to make the dates that items on this weblog were published show up in FeedDemon. I’m not sure what I’m missing but it shouldn’t be too hard to figure out.

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MEMRI sent out a copy of an interview of sorts in which the Saudi Arabian embassy in the UK attempts to explain their view of human rights and the Saudi system of justice. For academic reasons if no other, it’s interesting to see how they see themselves.

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I read on Dangerousmeta about 100 Ugandan schoolgirls who have been kidnapped by rebels. From the looks of things, the media isn’t very interested in reporting on this story.

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Some laws exist merely as monuments to bigotry and ignorance, and the anti-sodomy laws that were still in effect in some states until yesterday were perhaps the most egregious remaining examples. The legal ramifications of the bold ruling issued by the majority are huge, but there’s also another side benefit. Now we get to see [...]

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