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I’m going to be away on a trip with little or no computer access for the next week or so. There probably won’t be any updates until Friday, December 19 at the earliest.

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Juan Cole reminds us of some of the things the nations we cut out of the Iraq pie have done for us:

It transpires that the Pentagon order denying Iraq reconstruction contracts to France, Germany, Russia and Canada was issued by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. It created enormous anger in the US allies [...]

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The Slacktivist reports that Levi’s doesn’t actually make jeans any more. I haven’t worn Levi’s in years because I don’t care for the fit, but I find that a bit sad anyway.

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Apparently, dropping out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination gives you lots of time to write useful legislation. Bob Graham has introduced a bill that would make our election results more legitimate, requiring disclosure of technology used, a real audit trail, and mandatory recounts in randomly selected jurisdictions to verify that things [...]

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FeedDemon 1.0 is ready. I’ve been using it as my aggregator for months. Now I’ll be paying for it.

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What can you say about this? If accurate, holy crap.

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For the past year or so, I’ve been reading about the current generation of phones with built in cameras, support for wireless Internet access, and all sorts of other nifty goodies. When it came time to upgrade my wireless service, I went to Cingular and picked up a Sony Ericsson T616 phone. I [...]

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I like Howard Dean, but some of his poll numbers really scare me. I think he’d be a fine President, but if he can’t beat Bush I want a different nominee.

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Don Box wrote a post mentioning quotes from Richard Stevens’ home page that don’t make sense given that he passed away in 1999. It touches on an off and on obsession of mine, which is, what would happen to my Web site if I die. I’d hate to be killed in a [...]

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A common pattern involves someone making a statement that’s fairly profound, and then a flood of people adopting it, misinterpreting it (usually through oversimplification), and then misusing it to support arguments that the original person who made the statement never would have agreed with in the first place. That pattern fits for the old “worse [...]

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