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Garret Vreeland of Dangerousmeta rarely posts extended comments, but when he does, they’re always worth reading.

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I haven’t been able to reach del.icio.us all day, and I feel like I’ve been surfing the Web with both hands behind my back. I’ve noticed several articles that I wanted to keep around and who knows if I’ll ever remember them at this point. Argh. I guess I’ll have to use the bookmarking facility [...]

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So Alex Halavais decided to take up the challenge laid before Wikiedpia disparaging journalist Al Fasoldt and intentionally introduced 13 errors to the encyclopedia on Sunday, thinking he’d leave them for 2 weeks and see if they’d get fixed. As he notes in the comments, all of the errors were fixed within a couple of [...]

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I look at the new iMac, and I think that the future is really here. It seems like the sci-fi vision of the computer has long been a system that’s just a flat display, and the new iMac is pretty darn close to that ideal. It’s not a beautiful computer, but the form factor is [...]

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Remember the weblog post that talked about how Friendster migrated from J2EE to PHP for performance reasons? Well, Joyce Park just got fired for publishing it. Sometimes I’d really love to talk more about the stuff that I work on, but episodes like this keep me from doing so. Update: If I had ever bothered to [...]

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Anyone who’s read this site more than, say, a day, knows that I’m interested in politics. Sometimes obsessed with politics. But lately I’m beginning to think that it’s a big waste of time. My problem is that I oftentimes think that people are like me. I used to be really conservative — I came from [...]

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Federal judge Richard Posner lists what he sees as the greatest threats to the world:

If I were asked to list the greatest threats to the world, I would include global warming, but would add bioterrorism, nuclear terrorism, nuclear proliferation, biodiversity loss, cyberterrorism, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence/robotics, and asteroid collisions.

Pretty good list. Overall, I found his stint [...]

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Dave Johnson has been hired by Sun to work on Roller full time. That’s awesome.

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You can tell that Wikipedia is really catching on, because it looks like the first wave of the anti-Wikipedia backlash is starting. Syracuse Post-Standard writer is shocked, shocked that it’s not the online arm of a regular encyclopedia. What bothers me is that the journalist characterizes the site as “supposedly authoritative,” when it’s obvious that [...]

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The swiftvets have served President Bush by providing a useful distraction by soaking up most of the news cycle during a time when important news about the war we’re fighting today has emerged. Two reports on torture of detainees at Abu Ghraib and other US military facilites were released this week, and Washington Post columnist [...]

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