The Israeli army robbed several Palestinian banks today of the funds that they claimed were in accounts associated with terrorism. Of course, anyone who understands how banks work knows that the money in your account isn’t waiting there for you to come withdraw it, so it’s hard to see how the Israelis can justify taking [...]
Entries from February 2004
Israeli army bank heist?
February 26th, 2004 · Comments Off
Those were the days
February 26th, 2004 · Comments Off
Everybody is linking to this comparison of the top 50 sites today with the top 50 sites of 1996. Obviously the fact that a .edu site was in the top 10 in 1996 is quaint, but what I find more interesting is that the Well (well.com) was in the top 10 back then. [...]
Open Source Java
February 26th, 2004 · Comments Off
Looks like the talk of open source Java is heating up quickly. As far as I’m concerned, Sun may as well change the license for Java, since they’re just about the only company in the software industry that isn’t making money from Java these days.
13 Ways to Save Orkut
February 26th, 2004 · Comments Off
Rebecca Blood: 13 Ways to Save Orkut. I was heavily into Orkut for about a day and a half, but I haven’t been back again since then. Orkut did enable me to get in touch with a guy who I hadn’t spoken to or emailed in over 10 years, but beyond that I haven’t [...]
Politics as usual
February 25th, 2004 · Comments Off
Republicans are saying all sorts of things about John Kerry’s voting record on defense programs. Fred Kaplan has a piece that sheds some light on things. The Republicans must tar Kerry as soft on defense because President Bush’s best hope of getting reelected is to make Americans afraid that terrorists will overrun the [...]
Gay Marriage
February 24th, 2004 · Comments Off
You know, my views on the gay marriage issue have really polarized over the past few weeks. I’ve never been opposed to gay marriage, but I also didn’t feel particularly zealous about opening the option of marriage to gay people either. I have thought it’s a right they should have for a long [...]
Common sense on outsourcing
February 24th, 2004 · Comments Off
Declan McCullagh has written a sort of Free Trade 101 column in defense of President Bush’s economic advisor, Greg Mankiw, who made the mistake of pubicly defending outsourcing last week.
The burning questions of our time
February 24th, 2004 · Comments Off
OK, I can sleep well tonight knowing that the singing creatures in the Quizno’s ads are called Spongmonkeys. For what it’s worth, I love those ads.
Grey Tuesday
February 24th, 2004 · Comments Off
If you’re interested in the Grey Tuesday protest but you don’t want to host MP3s or turn your site grey, another option is to seed the Grey Album through BitTorrent all day. I downloaded the Grey Album a week or so ago just to see what all the fuss was about, but I haven’t [...]
The Homeland Security budget
February 23rd, 2004 · Comments Off
Fred Kaplan published a piece today looking at the details of the budget for the Deparment of Homeland Security. I was surprised at some of the programs that have been cut or eliminated.