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Wal-Mart has launched a new music service, and of course they’re selling each song for 88 cents rather than the 99 cents that the iTunes Music Service charges. As you may suspect, Wal-Mart’s licensing terms are draconian. You’re also limited to Windows Media Player for playing the songs. I know that the iTunes Music [...]

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The main takeaway from this how-to manual on travelling abroad for major dental work is that flossing your teeth and having them cleaned regularly may suck, but it doesn’t suck the most.

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For awhile, I was linking to all sorts of stuff about Bjorn Lomborg, who wrote the book The Skeptical Environmentalist. The book was an iconoclastic look at the environmental movement, and generated a lot of negative feedback (as most widely exposed iconoclastic works do). Kuro5hin has an update on what’s been happening with Lomborg lately. [...]

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So I got sucked into this essay about the Wright brothers, and it turned out instead to be a great illustration of the problems with the patent system.

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Juan Cole wrote up a nice then and now piece on Saturday about our dealings with Iraq in the 80s and the Iran-Contra scandal.

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Joel Spolsky: Biculturalism. A review of Eric Raymond’s The Art of UNIX Programming and, briefly, of Raymond’s politics.

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The Debian Project has posted an investigation report explaining how their machines were compromised.

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The soldiers who tracked down Saddam Hussein are from Phil Carter’s old unit.

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I’m still travelling on family business with basically no Internet access. I should be back online on Sunday and updates should resume on December 22. I haven’t even been able to follow the breaking news, much less write about it. In other news, my GPRS still isn’t working. Stupid Cingular.

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One small point to make about Michael Kinsley’s column criticizing how Democratic Presidential candidates are handling the issue of Iraq on the campaign trail: one could have been opposed to war in the first place and support seeing things through now out of a general sense of responsibility. By invading and occupying Iraq, we [...]

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