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Atom 1.0Oscar nominees for this year — "Little Miss Sunshine" nominated for best picture!
Paul Boutin reviews Windows Vista — It brings some Mac-like goodness to the Windows using masses.
President Bush to most Americans: your health insurance is too good — I'm all for making it easier for everyone to get health insurance, but saying the tax code encourages us to buy too much health insurance is asinine and flat out wrong.
Details of the "Television Without Pity" name check on "My Name is Earl" — I am amused and impressed.
The ups and downs of linking to Wikipedia — Thoughts on the subject from Tim Bray.
3qd on the Shilpa Shetty controversy in the UK — It will be interesting to see whether this episode has any long term impact.
US Attorney General doesn't understand the Constitution — He really ought to resign over the weekend.
Fox News reports claims that Barack Obama attended a "madrassa" — They seem to think he's a Muslim too. He's not, not that it matters.
Rich Little asked not to make fun of President Bush — Stephen Colbert has effectively killed this event. Good for him.
The fight against the pejorative usage of the word "Democrat" is over — Dyed in the wool Democrat Robert Reich uses "Democrat president" in a blog posting.
Slate investigates the Rory Fitzpatrick scandal — Looks like the NHL trashed some votes.
The photo missing from the list of "best" Mohammed Ali photos — Jason Levine sets them straight.
Sports Illustrated's favorite photos of Muhammad Ali — The greatest of all time.
Apple should hire Dori Smith — And more people should get jobs by applying for them on their blogs.
What you can get for $1.2 trillion — The opportunity cost of the war in Iraq.
You don't need to change your car's oil every 3000 miles — You did need to at one time, but perpetuating the myth only benefits the oil change places.
Doomsday Clock moved two minutes closer to midnight — Dramatic way of making a point.
Picking up where Billmon left off — Don't miss A Tiny Revolution.
Apple Developer Connection News doesn't even mention the iPhone — They really aren't interested in signing up developers.
Incredibly interesting discussion of the economics of "The Wages of Wins" — If you don't care about basketball or the quantitative analysis of sports, you can skip this.
Ghost writer of OJ Simpson's book on interviewing Simpson — "I was sitting in a room with a man I knew to be a murderer and I let him hang himself."
Netflix offers online viewing, but only for Windows — I'm certain DRM is to blame.
How to make your applications more energy efficient — Sub-optimal utilization of servers is a big one.
WeatherBill is going to offer weather insurance to small businesses — This is the craziest business I have ever heard of.
Marc Hedlund on why Apple should open the iPhone — Yes I'm going to keep banging this drum, because there's a lesson here for all device makers.
Wall Street Journal on Cap'n Crunch (aka John Draper) — Sad. I met him at a hacker convention in Houston about 15 years ago.
White House pressures paying clients of lawyers for Gitmo detainees to find other representation — The depths to which this administration will sink continually astound me.
Anthony Cordesman dissects Bush's speech line by line — Such coverage would have been unthinkable a year or two ago.
David Pogue's iPhone FAQ — The fact that it won't include an iChat client is frustrating.
Jamais Cascio on why the closed iPhone is bad for Apple — Trenchant observations.
The paradox of being rich — The more money you have, the less you have to pay for.
A placeholder for the unplayed 2004-05 season is engraved on the Stanley Cup — Good for the Hockey Hall of Fame for not glossing over it.
Bruce Schneier's advice on picking passwords — If nothing else, stick a number (or other "appendage") on the front of the password rather than the end.
The screen on the iPhone is probably made of zirconia — Seems like its characteristics are much better than plastic for this application.
Clive Thompson on the demise of playgrounds due to liability issues — When I was a kid, my favorite activity was seeing how long I could hang onto the merry-go-round while being dragged on the ground.
Economists for US automakers whistle past the graveyard — The auto industry in America deserves what it has coming.
What George W. Bush could learn from Steve Jobs — Funny.
Previously undisclosed history of the Supreme Court — Jim Newton reviews memos written by Justice William Brennan. Absolutely fascinating.
How the President got his generals to go along with escalation — Remember when President Bush kept telling us everything he did was on the recommendation of his generals? Wasn't true then, either.
Cisco's statement about the iPhone trademark seems a bit passive-aggressive — It seems like they don't like the fact that Apple made an announcement before finalizing an agreement with them.
Table comparing iPhone to other smart phones — The high price is understandable given the features.
Tired: humans causing global warming — Wired: humans causing sizable earthquakes
Details of a bogus apartment rental scam on Craigslist — It's a 419 scam and identity theft all rolled into one.
Rebuttal of Malcolm Gladwell's Enron article — Courtesy of NY Times business writer Joe Nocera. (via 3qd)
The US is about to start manufacturing a new nuclear warhead — Because that's just what we need. Oh, and it's going to cost more than $100 billion.
Getting by in Ireland speaking only Gaelic — I think most of the people encountered thought the writer was screwing with them. (via Nelson Minar)
Chris Anderson on Guy Kawasaki's blog revenue — Yet another reason why I don't bother with ads.
Copyright and the classics — Matthew Yglesias has it exactly right. If the copyright folks have their way, modern classics will never enter the public domain.
Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn — Great Guy Kawasaki post on the advantages of LinkedIn. (Feel free to invite me to your network if you know my email address.)
Immigrants make up a huge part of the US entrepreneurial community — 25% of technology startups from 1995 to 2005 were founded at least in part by an immigrant.
Could greedy clients kill BitTorrent? — Tragedy of the commons and so forth and so on.
Saddam Hussein is George W Bush's intellectual role model — At least Saddam was more honest about where he got his intelligence than Bush is.
The latest on dirty bomber Jose Padilla — Durham DA Mike Nifong is a rank amateur compared to the Justice Department when it comes to abuse of authority.
President Bush asserts right to inspect mail in an "emergency" — More signing statement shenanigans. I think they're starting to do this just to piss people off.
Christopher Hitchens in a World of Christopher Hitchenses — Funny. (via 3qd)
Should servers at restaurants touch patrons? — Frank Bruni blogs on the topic.
David Sobotta reads the tea leaves on impending Apple product announcements — This article reminds me of the Malcolm Gladwell piece on puzzles and mysteries I liked to this week.
The Best Links 2006 (kottke.org) — Another entertaining and informative year.
Jamais Cascio goes meta on year end predictions — A guide to reading forecasts.
Creative Commons Termination of Transfer tool — Simplifies the task of creators to reclaim rights to their works (from licensees) after a 35 year term expires.
Why nobody trusts the media — Journalists report what they're told, not what they actually know.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden on the execution of Saddam Hussein — As she points out, the cellphone video prevents this pathetic sham from being portrayed as something more.
Malcolm Gladwell on mysteries and puzzles — Very interesting piece on the nature of analysis.
The 10 most outrageous civil liberties violations of 2006 — Last year has to be a banner year on this account.
Categories of existential risks — Better to have them and not need them, etc etc.
What are you optimistic about, and why? — The 2007 Edge annual question.
You know how people stick those "Digg this" icons at the end of their blog posts? — This is the opposite.