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If you’re a Web designer (or even just a hack like me) and you haven’t tried EditCSS for Firefox yet, you’re missing out.

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John Battelle’s Searchblog has been the one site to read about Google’s impending IPO and just about everything else search related since it launched, so it’s no surprise that his coverage of Google’s S1 filing is notable.

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Bruce Rolston writes about Fallujah:

Comic Book Guy jokes aside, this could well be a brilliant move on the Marines’ part, but only if you ascribe to one key assumption … that the resistance in Fallujah is largely non-political, tribal, and localist, as we’ve argued here all along. Then it’s brilliant. It gives the tribesmen still [...]

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LawGeek points out that Apple has changed the licensing terms for tracks purchased from the iTunes Music Store, reducing the number of times the same playlist can be be burned to CD, and has added code to detect trivially different playlists and include them in the count as well. This doesn’t really affect me, but [...]

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So it looks like we’re turning Fallujah over to a former Iraqi general who was governor of Anbar province (where Fallujah is located) and was former military adviser to Chemical Ali. When we said we were letting former Baath party members start working with the new government, I thought we meant school teachers, postmen, and [...]

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The retro eyeglass frames I’ve long dreamed of possessing, which I now know are called Clubman Art-Rims, have been discontinued. That’s a bummer.

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I was a bit shocked to read the following at Cafe au Lait today:

On the other hand I’ve yet to figure out why Apple expects me to pay $0.99 for songs that can be downloaded for free from many other places. Perhaps Steve Jobs took too many engineering classes and too few classes in economics.

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The White House, ignoring the scientific consensus, and indeed, basic common sense, is classifying hatchery bred salmon as wildlife for the purposes of deciding whether wild salmon should be protected under the endangered species act. In short, this is just another step toward the complete despoiling of West coast river habitats.

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USA Today has depressing news from Iraq, in the form of a poll that shows that the majority of Iraq want Americans to get the Hell out of their country. When this all started, it was generally believed that what America would need was the willingness to stay the course and help enforce the peace [...]

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The Christian Science Monitor has an excellent profile of Moqtada al-Sadr today. It concludes by pointing out that al-Sadr’s main fight is with the mainstream Shiite leadership rather than the United States, further underscoring Richard Clarke’s argument this weekend that the real war being waged is an internecine battle within Islam rather than a battle [...]

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