Nightmares

by Pete on January 30, 2008

From today’s New York Times: Aides to Mr. McCain and Mr. Guiliani said that after Tuesday’s dismal third-place finish, the former New York mayor would drop out of the race later on Wednesday and was likely to endorse Mr. McCain. (…)

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State of the—oh, honestly, who even really cares at this stage

by Pete on January 29, 2008

I suppose I should somehow care that last night was George W. Bush’s final State of the Union address, but right now, it’s pretty tough to summon up any feelings whatsoever regarding the matter. One can only rail against the (…)

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Times New Viking – Rip It Off

by Pete on January 28, 2008

I have read no end of quotes lately from Stephen Merritt about how his new Magnetic Fields album is an attempt to channel The Jesus & Mary Chain’s seminal 1985 outing Psychocandy. With its layers of fuzz, Distortion makes a (…)

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I can’t ping the pickles!

by Pete on January 27, 2008

In the middle of an entirely frightening Associated Press article on the Orwellian prospects presented by ubiquitous RFID tags, one finds the following paragraph: At home, convenience is a selling point: RFID-enabled refrigerators could warn about expired milk, generate weekly (…)

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With friends like these…

by Pete on January 27, 2008

There has been no shortage of analysis of the barrage of attacks launched, both directly and indirectly, by the Clinton campaign against Barack Obama. The number and frequency of these attacks, as well as the resulting hubbub amongst the commentariat, (…)

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The final word on Amazon’s MP3 store

by Pete on January 26, 2008

It’s amazing how quickly being linked on BoingBoing gets a problem solved. After some assurances from someone in Amazon’s MP3 group that, despite what their customer support people told me, their ID3 tagging is not proprietary, I did a bunch (…)

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More on the Amazon MP3 Store

by Pete on January 22, 2008

Although I have previously voiced my gripes with Amazon’s MP3 Downloads store, I decided to give them another chance last week after reading the news that Sony/BMG was dropping DRM from their mp3 offerings. Amazon’s selection has improved dramatically since (…)

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What A.L. said

by Pete on January 20, 2008

Because, why go to the trouble of coming up with an insightful post about Hillary Clinton’s Nevada victory, when Anonymous Liberal has already done the heavy lifting: And with apologies to Senator Clinton and her supporters–to whom I mean no (…)

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No, he’s still scary

by Pete on January 16, 2008

Because Mike Huckabee makes vaguely populist noises from time to time, plays bass, and isn’t constantly advocating for the invasion of Iran, there is a tendency among liberals and centrists to view him as less blatantly offensive than the rest (…)

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Maybe

by Pete on January 15, 2008

Maybe if Giuliani’s support ends up being as crappy as Michigan exit polls are indicating, we won’t have to hear about him anymore? Please? Sadly, we’ll probably have to wait for his “bet it all on Florida” strategy to crash (…)

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