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The story of mean old Volvo pushing around poor little Volo Auto Museum has been making the rounds. Apparently, there are two sides to this story, as you might expect.

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I know that there are people who read this weblog that have real talent when it comes to graphic design. I was wondering if anyone was interested in doing me the favor of creating an icon for this site (and a favicon to match if you’re ambitious). It needs to be 32 x [...]

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Busted. How big has the Java blogging community become? I read a discussion board post yesterday where someone referred to Java bloggers as “freerollers,” presumably because many of them use the free Roller hosting service at freeroller.net.

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I flogged Kenneth M Pollack’s book before the war. Here’s what he has to say in the aftermath.

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Here’s a chart that tries to plot webloggers that most influence the media. I find the positioning of some of the webloggers pretty bizarre. The ones that stand out most are Lileks and the Daily Kos.

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John Udell says:

I like to imagine new OS system services. Yesterday, it struck me that a rules engine, logger, and debugger would be an appropriate bundle of stuff to generalize as a standard system service.

This would indeed be pretty cool. Basically you’d have what amounts to a scripting language (hopefully a very simple and straightforward [...]

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Tim Bray has some great potential applications for RSS and then goes on to explain some of its barriers to adoption. I would love it if I could get an RSS feed of transactions on my back account. A lot of the stuff that you could use RSS for could also be accomplished with [...]

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A quick search of my archive will reveal that I’ve nursed a long time fascination with ArsDigita. Phil Greenspun popped onto my radar screen all the way back in 1995 when I read his online travelogue “Travels with Samantha.” Anyway, yet another ArsDigita insider, Michael Yoon, has posted his version of the events as they [...]

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Keep the flame of browser innovation burning. Kick a few bucks to mozdev.org.

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Michael Kinsley’s column today points out the irrelevance of the continuing search for those weapons in Iraq. People who are paying attention already know that this war was marketed based on lies, or at least distortions, and the people who are going to get outraged are already outraged. In the meantime, the low level continuing [...]

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