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In last week’s New York Times Magazine, David Rieff asks, Were Sanctions Right? It’s a thoughtful article that examines the real effects of the sanctions that followed the first Gulf War, not just on the Iraqi people, but on the nature of the regime, and on the people imposing the sanctions. It’s pretty clear now [...]

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Eric Meyer (whose position as standards evangelist at Netscape was elimiated) is starting his own consulting firm. There are about a billion sites out there that could use his advice. Here’s hoping some of them contact him.

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Sam Williams at Salon: Prowling the ruins of ancient software

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Josh Marshall is looking for an intern to spruce up his Talking Points Memo web site. If you’re a clueful person (woh preferably knows Movable Type) and this sort of thing intrigues you, please sign up for this. TPM really needs an RSS feed and general modernization (things like actual pages with each entry for [...]

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I was all excited today because President Bush finally came out and said that the things he said his State of the Union Address were, in fact, his own responsibility. However, as observed by the New Republic weblog, in his press conference, he blames the economic uncertainty brought about by the threat of war with [...]

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Phil Carter, who I lauded yesterday, uncorked a great post on how the government is abusing the unlawful combatant designation to coerce defendants into pleading guilty rather than actually taking their cases to trial. This sort of outright abuse of the justice system is absurd and depressing. It seems every day I read about abuses [...]

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I love finding a classed up version of a favorite movie line. “The world is made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness,” is a gem I’ve never forgotten from Bull Durham. Unsurprisingly, Gustave Flaubert says it better:

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is [...]

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There’s nothing to win you over to the side of a candidate like hearing them say something you already think. In an interview with Howard Dean, Chris Suellentrop learned Dean’s theory on building economies in the developing world:

Dean’s theory in a nutshell: The structure of wealth in the United States before labor unions resembled that [...]

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Python 2.3 is out, for all you Python hackers (or wannabes like myself).

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Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1 seems to have fixed whatever problem broke bookmarklets in 0.6. I had gotten pretty darned tired of coping with not having my bookmarklet for adding new entries to this site.

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