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Here’s another piece on the potential slippery slope of buying music through the iTunes Music Store (via Boing Boing).

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I was just wondering the other day whether we could add up the version numbers of Firebird 0.7 and Thunderbird 0.3 and refer to them as a 1.0 release? They seem up to it from a quality standpoint to me.

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A few weeks ago the results of a Zogby poll taken in Iraq were much discussed in the media and in the weblog world. Yesterday, James Zogby (who runs the Zogby poll), wrote an op-ed aimed to disabuse people of the false conclusions that were reached based on intentional misrepresentation of the poll’s results. One [...]

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Amazon has launched their much anticipated feature that will enable you to search the full text of books in their catalog. This is yet another way that Amazon.com is becoming ever more useful as a basic reference, on top of being a nice place to buy stuff. What I’d really like to see is [...]

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A reader sent in this comment on the quality loss (or lack thereof) when you convert iTunes AAC files into AAC files without the DRM:

In regards to your entry on the iTunes Music Store — I’ve been wanting to use the store for a while, but didn’t really want to pay for DRMed files (for [...]

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All eyes are on Donald Rumsfeld’s candid memo to his subordinates that was leaked to USA Today. One of the huge problems I’ve had with this administration is that it seems to start with conclusions and then looks for facts to support them. This memo stands in opposition to that, and I think that’s a [...]

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I installed iTunes for Windows last week but didn’t really get a chance to play with it until last night. I’d love to have a Mac, but I’m stuck with a couple of PCs, so this was my first chance to use iTunes, which Mac users have been raving about (rightfully so, it seems) [...]

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The Slacktivist is writing a long series of post on the Left Behind series of books. These books are a series of wildly popular novels that are written by and for millenialist whack jobs who adhere to a very bizarre set of beliefs that they would describe as Christian. The Slacktivist’s willingness to wade into [...]

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Sy Hersh describes how the US intelligence community has been misused by the current administration.

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Anti-semitism seems to be much in the news this week. When I initially read Gregg Easterbrook’s strange item on the movie Kill Bill, I started checking his weblog every day for the inevitable apology. Sure enough, he posted one on October 16. Easterbrook’s statement was stupid, but struck me more as being ill-conceived than [...]

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