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In Making Torture Legal, Anthony Lewis takes a broad look at the various memos and rulings that have emanated from the White House during the war on terror and how they subvert or invalidate laws and treaties that are already on the books. The degree to which this administration sees laws as obstacles to be [...]

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A couple of weeks ago I started using del.icio.us as a link manager. I run across stuff every day that I want to keep around for future reference and browser bookmarks just aren’t the right place for them because I use a different computer at work than I do at home (just like most everyone [...]

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Looks like the Bush administration went 0 for 3 in the Supreme Court on terrorism cases. Once again my faith that the Supreme Court won’t let things get too out of hand is rewarded. (Don’t get me wrong, I disagree with the Supreme Court a lot of the time, but I still find it to [...]

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Christopher Allbritton writes from Iraq:

This is hard to write, but I’ve come to the conclusion that after a year of horror and insecurity, the average Iraqi doesn’t want freedom. They want a set of laws that they can live with, do business under and raise their kids. If it takes a benign dictator to do [...]

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So I’ve written a Web service that a customer is supposed to be using, but they’re using a specific Microsoft XML class to call it, and I had never interfaced with it before. We ran into some compatability issues, and I have to make some changes, but being that I’m Mr. Test Driven Development these [...]

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There are a couple of reminders of the incredible importance of language in the news lately. The first is the Darfur situation in Sudan. Nobody in the US government can call it what it is, genocide, because making such a declaration would legally compel us to do something about it, and we don’t have the [...]

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Just when you thought that the Bush White House had a monopoly on stupidity and vindictiveness, you read something that evens things out. Some supergenius at Kerry HQ has decided to freeze out Amy Sullivan because she gave quotes to the Washington Times regarding Kerry’s message on religion. Pathetic.

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Garret posted about the problem of perchlorate contamination in water and milk over at Dangerousmeta, and a PR flack for the “Council on Water Quality” found his post and pasted a press release on the issue in his comments. Rather than deleting the press release, he wrote up a lengthy, well sourced, and well reasoned [...]

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Bruce Schneier’s latest column points out that limitations of government power are a form of security, in reference to the Supreme Court cases on terrorism that are being decided this week.

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Charles Miller explains why Gmail’s system of handing out invitations is a good way to carefully scale up the system’s capacity instead of just opening the floodgates to everyone at once. What I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere is that Gmail’s invitation system seems to be roughly modeled by Google’s earlier efforts with Orkut, the invitation-only [...]

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