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Today’s experiment was to get Ubuntu Linux running in a virtual machine on my Mac. It gave me the opportunity to play with two things — Ubuntu Linux and VirtualBox, an open source alternative to VMware and Parallels.

First step: download VirtualBox and Ubuntu. Second step: wait four hours.

Like all the virtualization tools for the Mac, [...]

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Here’s what the bettors on the InTrade prediction market think of Hillary Clinton’s chances to be the Democratic nominee over the past couple of weeks:

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Today I read Dr. Z’s annual ratings of football broadcasters and realized that I don’t really have a strong opinion of any of them in particular and that I have a mild distaste for all of them.

Fortunately, I’ve come up with a method of watching football that eliminates the announcers almost entirely. The key is [...]

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Not long ago I watched the movie Once, which I recommend highly. The main character, a busker in Dublin, plays a guitar that has large holes worn in it. As it turns out, that guitar is the personal instrument of the actor playing the role, musician Glen Hansard. Then I saw Willie Nelson playing on [...]

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One thing that has annoyed me over the past year or so has been the persistent and perhaps willful misunderstanding of why violence is down in Iraq. There’s no question that the presence of more US soldiers has the effect of diminishing violence to a certain degree, but the real key has been co-opting the [...]

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Looks like OpenID has caught the eye of the big Web companies. All of those “2008 is the year of OpenID” predictions people made are looking better every day.

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It seems that the recent trend in the music industry has been to make tracks available without DRM but to snub Apple by refusing to allow them to sell the DRM-free tracks through the iTunes Music Store. I suspect that this is a sort of vigilante antitrust action by the record companies that they [...]

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If you have 20 minutes and are going to vote today (or at any point this year), check out Larry Lessig’s video endorsement of Barack Obama.

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Andrew Leonard posts today about Barack Obama’s views on economics. It’s the best analysis I’ve yet seen of Obama’s economic philosophy, and is a bit of a deeper look than the one provided in the New York Times article I’ve linked to a couple of times. Leonard describes Obama’s economic orientation as left-libertarian, which probably [...]

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Is it just me or does the Microsoft/Yahoo merger stand to foster a lot of innovation on the Web by driving away many of the smartest people at Yahoo and perhaps even some of the smart people at Microsoft? How many startups will be created by former employees of those companies, and how many startups [...]

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