So many bloggers now have Gmail accounts (myself included), and a number of them are posting feedback about Gmail to their weblogs (myself included) and probably aren’t submitting that feedback through the mechanism built into Gmail (myself included). Wouldn’t it be cool if Google set up a Trackback address that you could ping if you posted Gmail-related items? That would make it easy for the Gmail team to keep track of all of the Gmail discussion going on out here in blogland.

The other day I noticed that John Kerry’s most recent campaign slogan is “Let America be America again.” At the time, I thought it may have been taken from a line on The West Wing. A reader pointed out that the line from The West Wing was taken from Reagan’s 1984 campaign when, after losing a debate to Walter Mondale, Reagan’s advisors adopted the slogan “Let Reagan be Reagan.” I’m sure the Kerry campaign wishes that people were focusing on that, rather than on the fact that the line is taken from a poem written during the Great Depression by a communist sympathizer expressing his feeling that there never was an American golden age to get back to (a sentiment that I agree with, generally speaking, given that I’m no fan of nostalgia).

Is it just me, or does it look like Iraq is becoming the academy of terrorism for the rest of the world? The recent attacks on foreigners and economic targets in Saudi Arabia sure look like they’re taken directly from the insurgency in Iraq. The insurgents in Iraq have figured out that fighting heavily armed and well trained soldiers is a losing game. Going after soft targets is a higher percentage play, and apparently terrorists in Saudi Arabia are watching enough television to have gotten the message. In this way terrorists are like script kiddies. There’s no need to come up with something new if you can just take an existing script and unleash it with a few minor changes.

The subject of the John Kerry intern rumors, Alexandra Polier, writes about the origin of the rumors and how she figured out who spread them around for New York magazine. Cameron Barrett is mentioned by name in the article, and explains how he was involved as well. (In case you don’t follow the links, the original rumor was posted to a site Cam created, but he wasn’t directly involved.)