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I’ve had a nagging thought since the election about why many people vote for Republicans when they “should” vote for Democrats. In the midst of all of the pieces discussing why people whose economic interests would predispose them to vote for Democrats vote for their “values,” I almost never see violence mentioned. Many Republicans simply [...]

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Tivo is planning to start displaying banner ads while you fast forward. What a terrible move. I was planning on buying one of those Humax Tivo/DVD-R combo boxes at Christmas, but now, not so much.

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Last night, the Jon Stewart mentioned the organization Amend for Arnold on the Daily Show. You can guess what they’re working on. I’m not leaving the country because President Bush was reelected, but if we amend the Constitution and elect Arnold Schwarzenegger, I will leave. And I’ll go to Austria and do everything I can [...]

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So I’m now seeing spam on a PHPBB bulletin board I run in the form of users who sign up and set their URLs to porn sites. No kidding. I assume it’s yet another way of boosting the PageRank of a site, but honestly I have no idea.

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I’ve put forth the theory (which I didn’t come up with on my own) that the main root cause of terrorism of the al-Qaeda variety is not poverty or even lack of dignity but rather the absence of outlets for legitimate political expression. A Harvard study seems to confirm that theory. Interestingly, the theory shows [...]

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So lately I’ve been on the front lines of the Web services war. Well, it’s not really a war since I’m not fighting anyone, but it feels that way. Here are a few of my findings so far:

It’s not uncommon to find Web services that don’t adhere to any “standard.” I wrote a web service [...]

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Reading a review that tells you the headphones you already own are the best always brings on a little glow on a Monday morning. I think the writer should have included Shure in-ear headphones in the review. I have a pair of Grado SR80 headphones, but I’ve been thinking about a pair of Shure E2c’s [...]

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All the way back in 2002, Josh Marshall recommended a book about the German invasion of France in 1940 called Strange Victory, written by Ernest R. May. The book basically turns the conventional wisdom on why France fell so quickly to the Germans in World War II on its head. Before reading it, I had [...]

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Do you think the computer algorithm that ranks the news stories at Google News and chooses the pictures that accompanies them chose this one?

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Gmail is rolling out access to email via POP to all users. Here’s the info, you may have to be a Gmail user to see it. I don’t think I’ll back up my Gmail messages via POP, but it’s nice to know I could if I wanted to.

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