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I’ve said before that John Kerry the candidate doesn’t particularly enthuse me, but this Salon interview left me feeling pretty good about him as a candidate.

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The flooding that has caused hundreds (perhaps over a thousand) deaths in Haiti and the Dominican Republic can be attributed almost entirely to the problem of deforestation. The Slacktivist explains how you can help reverse this problem. It’s as simple as knowing which charity to support and supporting them.

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One of my favorite weblogs, INTEL DUMP, has moved from BlogSpot to a site called PowerBlogs that I hadn’t heard of until Phil Carter mentioned moving his site there. PowerBlogs is basically the same thing as TypePad, except that the prices are a bit higher and the bandwidth and disk space limits are much [...]

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So, all the way back on December 17, 2003 I complained that the GPRS service for my Cingular-supplied mobile phone wasn’t working. I griped again on December 18, and again on January 19 and February 17. The ugly truth though is that since the second complaint, I just gave up on calling Cingular and started [...]

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McSweeney’s: PROS AND CONS OF JOHN KERRY’S TOP TWENTY VICE-PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES. Hi-larious.

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If you’ve ever done much programming in Perl, you’ll get a laugh out of this periodic table of Perl operators. (It’s a PDF, but it’s still worth checking out.)

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Why did the White House trot John Ashcroft out before the nation yesterday to warn us about an attack that may occur at some point in the future somewhere in America? Not, I think, because they want to scare people into supporting President Bush. Rather, because of the 9/11 Commission. The message [...]

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I’m a big fan of Eric Sink’s weblog. He runs a small software company and is very knowledgeable when it comes to running a software business. His company makes a well-regarded replacement for Microsoft Visual SourceSafe, which everyone knows is an utter piece of crap. On Monday, he posted about Microsoft’s announcement that they’re [...]

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Every day, new stories break about Americans torturing Iraqis, dead detainees, and collective punishment. A common argument from supports of the war, or the administration are that these acts are committed by rogue elements of the military and are not representative. The argument from many people on the left is that the political and military [...]

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Check out what Trent Lott said about the torture at Abu Ghraib. What’s really scary about Lott’s sentiments is that the victims aren’t even black.

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