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Looks like some military lawyers are joining the fight over Alberto Gonzalez’ nomination as Attorney General based on his torture memos. They, unlike the Bush administration, understand that our adherence to international conventions on torture and the treatment of prisoners is a way to protect our own troops in conflicts to come.

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This is the most deflating thing I’ve read lately.

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John Battelle has an optimistic outlook on Google’s effort to digitize the libraries of the world’s foremost academic institutions.

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Even as the woeful lack of equipment required by our troops in Iraq to reduce the chances that they’ll be killed on any given day has been all over the news lately, the ongoing revelations of torture all over the place in Iraq and Afghanistan go largely unmentioned outside the pages of newspapers. The zealous [...]

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Rands posted an article today about a type of engineer that I like to call a castle builder. Basically, a person who owns one critical piece of functionality for a system, never lets anyone else work on it, and thus have ensured themselves not only job security but also the right to go about their [...]

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We’re already back to bombing Fallujah. I’m speechless.

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About a month ago, I mentioned an Economist article that argued that Republicans beat Democrats because they’re the party of hope, and I said I needed to think about it before writing anything. OK, I’ve thought about it. The Republican party is not the party of hope, but rather the party of ignorance and denial. So [...]

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Bill Moyers:

As difficult as it is, however, for journalists to fashion a readable narrative for complex issues without depressing our readers and viewers, there is an even harder challenge — to pierce the ideology that governs official policy today. One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no [...]

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You may wonder about the significance of the title of this post. Tonight I was deploying an update of our application to the production server, and to finish the deployment, I restarted Tomcat and Apache. When I tried to access our Web service, I received the message “No Host matches server name,” followed by the [...]

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Tim Bray: “One thing is sure: the Wikipedia dwarfs its critics.”

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