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Did you assist the White House in making 5 million email messages vanish? If so, please comment here.

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I’ve redirected all of my feeds to FeedBurner at the URL http://feeds.rc3.org/rc3dotorg. Sadly I think that the styled version of the feed that FeedBurner provides may be better looking than the blog itself.

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I just learned within the past 24 hours that the du command, which displays how much space a directory and all of its subdirectories are consuming supports the -h flag, which prints the results in a human-comprehensible format. Here’s the output of du -d 1 in my Web root:

7494 ./clips 18986 [...]

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Peter Merholz has posted an excellent review of the original Macintosh user manual.

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Foreign Policy’s blog posted this image and used it as a launch pad to discuss how, immediately before Alberto Gonzales’ resignation was announced, the prediction market upped the odds that his resigation was coming.

I can’t help but look at the larger trend, though, which appears to indicate that the market consistently lowered the odds that [...]

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When you’re dead, it robs life of many pleasures.

Harvey Pekar to Anthony Bourdain on No Reservations

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There’s a recycling campaign in North Carolina that’s got a Web site at re3.org. That can’t be good for me.

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Russell Beattie has kicked off an interesting thread of discussion on the topic of the future of Java:

In fact, I’d say that many of today’s current hot trends in programming are a direct result of a backlash against everything that Java has come to represent: Lengthy code and slow development being the first [...]

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I heard on the radio this morning that Alberto Gonzales is resigning. The only upside of his waiting this long to do what was right is that a dozen or so of his corrupt underlings have been forced to resign in order to protect him, so his intransigence has contributed to wider house cleaning than [...]

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Here’s something that jumped out at me in a blog post about the threat that lead paint in homes poses to children:

So why the stall in taking action? Well, first there is the lead lobby. Then there is cost of de-leading paint in older houses nationwide, which works out to an estimated $58 [...]

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