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The Web seems to be abuzz with talk about Jon Stewart’s appearance on Crossfire today. Wonkette has the details. You can download the episode via BitTorrent here if you missed it like I did. Update: I just downloaded the segment and watched it, and I found it mostly sad. I think Jon Stewart found it [...]

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I realized something important when I watched the debate on Wednesday night. I just internalize and gloss over my assumption that politicians almost never say what they mean. It doesn’t even bother me any more. I’m not sure if that’s a mature world view or a horribly cynical one. Let me give you an example. [...]

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Over at Manageability, Carlos explains where Google’s desktop searching application finds the data it indexes. Turns out, there’s already a repository for the data that Microsoft collects — Google is just accessing it. That explains why Google searches files associated with Microsoft applications, and leads me to think that it will perhaps be a long [...]

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Someone just sent me a link to Google Desktop, a tool for searching files on your own computer. The obvious question privacy watchdogs will ask is to what degree it communicates with the Google mothership. OK, I’ve installed Google Desktop. It’s really, really fast. Really fast. The computer I installed it on doesn’t have many documents [...]

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By the third debate, things start getting pretty redundant, don’t they? Looks like Bush just had his “timber company” moment of the night. He called his opponent a liar when he was telling the truth. I’m sure somebody else will have Bush’s quote on Osama bin Laden any second now. Bush is now attacking Kerry for promising [...]

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Here’s a real political issue that you won’t see discussed much this year, but that in actuality is very important to the future of this country. The issue is whether the tax burden should fall upon capital or upon consumption. For many years, I’ve felt like taxes on capital gains should be just as high [...]

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The New York Times brings up something that’s been bugging me for weeks, that Bush’s bumper stickers are better designed than Kerry’s. Unlike me, they can point out the exact reasons why that’s the case. What’s particularly troubling is that the rumor is that Kerry had a major role in the design of his campaign [...]

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The world of election malfeasance is disgusting. And the world of Republican election malfeasance is even more disgusting than run of the mill election malfeasance. I think, though, that even in that cesspool we’ll have to create a special category for the Sinclair Broadcasting. You may not have heard yet that the company is forcing [...]

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Being the type of person who sits around and surfs the web most of the time, I wasn’t at the Web 2.0 conference that everybody was blogging about last week. I did note with interest that one of the new startups that made some noise is a company called SpikeSource, which features on its management [...]

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Sun has paid $92 million dollars to Kodak to settle a bogus patent infringement suit that they surely could have won eventually based on prior art. I guess it’s a business decision, but it’s still crap.

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