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New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent takes on the subject of the Times’ liberalism today. I think his examination is fair and thorough. Liberals are all too familiar with the justified scrutiny that Fox News is getting for its ideological bent, but something similar is going on on the right, where the New York [...]

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In the software world, when we improve the way something works on the inside without changing the way it looks from the outside, we call it refactoring. Markup can also be refactored to turn it from a morass of nested tables, FONT tags, and hackish markup into a clean, CSS-based design that works in any [...]

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Wired News reports that Slate, which has been published by Microsoft from day one, is up for sale. Slate has a great stable of writers and I hope that they don’t go down the tubes if they’re bought. Jacob Weisberg, Fred Kaplan, Eric Umansky, Dahlia Lithwick, William Saletan, Timothy Noah, Robert Wright, Chris Suellentrop, Daniel [...]

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One thing that really stood out in my mind when I read Anne Jacobsen’s original story about the Syrian Terrorist Orchestra was her claim that a flight attendant told her that there were several air marshalls on the plane. If she were a normal human being and not a hysterical person siezed with irrational fear, [...]

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So, there’s a Presidential campaign going on these days, right? I haven’t been talking much about the elections, or the candidates, or Bush administration malfeasance lately mainly due to fatigue. Everybody already knows how I feel about George W Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, John Ashcroft, and everything else, and I just don’t feel much [...]

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Apparently the big allegation in the Syrian Terrorist Orchestra article that airlines get whacked by the DOT for having more than one “young Arab male” in secondary questioning is completely untrue. Update: The name of the band leader is now known. How nice that we’ve had the Jacobsens interviewed here there and everywhere for the [...]

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One nice thing about big wigs at companies publishing their own weblogs is that you get to see them throw down on their competitors in their own words. Jonathan Schwartz collides head on with Red Hat today, and sideswipes IBM along the way. Fun!

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Patrick Smith at Salon published a vicious debunking of the Anne Jacobsen “terror in the skies” story today that’s suitable for emailing to the credulous.

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Jeff McManus has a long post about how eBay’s developer relations department is reaching out to the open source community.

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So yesterday I blasted the first person account of a woman who encountered suspicious Arab men on a flight from Women’s Wall Street magazine with both barrels. Today I read this, from Bruce Schneier:

Read it through; it’s worth the time.

To me, this is exactly the sort of suspicious behavior that should be questioned. It’s not [...]

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