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Josh Marshall is doing real reporting on his weblog, connecting the dots between assertions of Iraq’s attempts to procure uranium from Africa, and the appearance of the now infamous fake Niger documents. The short version is that shortly after the CIA demanded that references to the uranium from Africa be expunged from a Bush speech, [...]

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I’ve been paying attention to the SCO case, but haven’t been writing about it much. In recent days, SCO appears to have gone completely over the edge, and has basically decided that the GPL is invalid and furthermore has been behaving as though that’s the case. Groklaw has the best continuing coverage.

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I want this prediction to be accurate so badly that it hurts.

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Some time ago I mentioned that wireless phone companies have been charging customers in advance for number portability. Here’s some documentation. The companies have already taken in $629 million to pay for number portability, even as they fight it tooth and nail. It looks like number portability is inevitable at this point, but if these [...]

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I’ve been following China’s Three Gorges Dam project (with dread) for years. Today, the Guardian has an update on how China has been affected by the dam now that it is partially complete.

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Looks like part of the cuts that the conference committee has made to the Iraq spending bill include cash allocated to restoring wetlands. I assume this was the funding that would have restored the wetlands that were the former home of the marsh Arabs in Iraq, which were destroyed through water diversion projects as a [...]

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Juan Cole has posted the most depressing weblog entry I’ve read in recent memory. In short, an Islamic newspaper in England claims a professor of Islamic Law who was working for the Bush administration produced a report predicting that Iraq’s eventual government will be Islamic, unwilling to recognize Israel, and hostile to the west (also [...]

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Jim Romenesko posted a devastating letter about Fox News. Read it before the link goes away.

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I love a good blogger on blogger legal fight. This non-lawyer says that Luskin has no case, being a public figure and all.

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Gary Wolf gives his opinion on the worst Wired feature ever. I won’t spoil the answer. The whole weblog entry is a trip down memory lane for dedicated Wired-watchers. I’ve been a member of the Well for a long time, and Wired had a big presence on the Well even before the magazine was published [...]

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