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Jason Kottke: Our collective recent history, online. A collection of magazine archives available online. Putting archives online is cheap, and you can put ads on old stuff just like you can jwz: Happy Run Some Old Web Browsers Day!. Everybody is linking to this, but who cares? jwz has put the original Mozilla Communications [...]

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Scott Rosenberg: Give us each day our daily campaign call. The Presidential campaigns hold daily conference calls with reporters to try to manage the news cycle. Dave Winer is working to post the audio of those calls so we can all listen in. Great project. Bzip2 mini-HOWTO: Using bzip with grep. Extremely useful shell script if [...]

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Los Angeles Times: The Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Blog. One of your more erudite former athletes. Bruce Schneier: The Security Mindset. I envy it, but it’s not how my mind works. The American Prospect: The Obama Doctrine. An attempt to discern Barack Obama’s general philosophy on foreign policy. Jim Henley: Henley Everywhere 2008alt. When you were as right as he [...]

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Emily Yoffe: Forget Juno. Out-of-wedlock births are a national catastrophe. Seeming fact-based defense of marriage. I don’t have strong opinions on this either way, but it certainly seems like marriage is to be encouraged for people who would be parents. The number that stands out to me is that only 4% of mothers who are [...]

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Roger L Kay: Apple’s Icarus Effect. Linked as a reminder to avoid anything written by Roger L Kay. Adam Sternbergh: Why White People Like ‘Stuff White People Like’. Surprisingly thoughtful analysis. WSJ.com: The Week That Shook Wall Street: Inside the Demise of Bear Stearns Elizabeth Spires in Slate: Why the Fed had to bail out Bear Stearns [...]

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There’s been a ton of analysis of Barack Obama’s speech yesterday, so the whole thing isn’t worth reviewing. There is, however, one point that I have not seen made elsewhere that I wanted to bring up.

This was, I think, the key sentence in Barack Obama’s speech yesterday. It was about his pastor, Jeremiah Wright:

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The senselessness of war: A World War II German fighter pilot just learned that he shot down and killed his favorite author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, who wrote The Little Prince. Dave Shea on Mediatyping. Presenting the right markup for the user’s device. John McCain seems to have run into the Shiite/Sunni confusion that plagues so many [...]

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Sports metaphors for Clinton vs. Obama. - Excellent top to bottom. I still contend that the rules of Quidditch prove that JK Rowling was never a sports fan. jQuery creator John Resig demonstrates some cool JavaScript programming tricks in Search and Don’t Replace. Fred Clark explains how rising land prices can put mobile home owners in a [...]

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Robert Weintraub in Slate: How have the Houston Rockets won 20 games in a row? - He’s wrong about the absence of Yao helping the Rockets. The Rockets won 12 in a row with Yao before winning 8 in a row without him. I think the secret has been adding Rick [...]

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Tyler Cowen posts about Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on the same themes that I was trying to hit last night. His post has the advantage of being both shorter and more erudite. He argues that the differences between the two are aesthetic, which I think is exactly right:

The two candidates represent two [...]

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