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Look what I got. I looked up all of the stores that would be selling the iPhone in my area, and guessed at which one would have the shortest line. When I got to the store at about 4:30, there were only 7 or 8 people in line. The store was closed from 4:30 to [...]

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Surely Flickr users will be chronicling the hysteria. There’s no iPhone category on the camera finder. yet. I’m going out to hunt around for iPhones in a little bit.

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Jason Kottke says Facebook is the new AOL. I agree.

As I was telling a coworker the other day, why build something for Facebook when I can build it for the Web as a whole? There are reasons to do so, but I’ll be sticking with the Web.

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Throughout my life, everyone I’ve admired (conservative and liberal alike) has held Brown v Board of Education as one of the truly good things the government has ever accomplished. Today the Supreme Court threw it on the ground and stomped the hell out of it, ostensibly in service of upholding its intent. Not a happy [...]

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A group of Wall Street Journal reporters failed to show up for work yesterday in protest of the pending acquisition of the paper by Rupert Murdoch.

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Steve Yegge ported Ruby on Rails to JavaScript, line by line, over six months. Wow.

He has a post recapping his Foo Camp presentation here. Here’s one thing he mentions:

I hope you’re beginning to see, at least faintly, why I love working at Google. It’s because the code base is clean. And anything [...]

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In attempt to justify to myself not only the cost of the iPhone but also the hassle of obtaining one on Friday if possible, I have put together a list of reasons why I am the perfect iPhone customer:

My primary use for my mobile phone is making and receiving calls, but I don’t make that [...]

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Walter Dellinger deflates the “strict constructionist” judicial philosophy in one elegant paragraph:

Senators especially like it when a nominee says a judge’s role is just to be an “umpire.” But broad constitutional phrases are different from sports rules, so a judge would be like an umpire only if the game—instead of having a strike [...]

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The early verdict on the iPhone seems to be: believe the hype. It got a blessing from Walt Mossberg, which is the most coveted positive review in the world of computers and gadgets.

Update: Valleywag attempts to add up a consensus.

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What happens when a satirical press release gets picked up in the media as real news?

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