Narrowly targeted

by Pete on February 21, 2008

From Ars Technica: A classified report written by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) that was obtained by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit reveals that an unnamed Internet service provider gave (…)

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Things on the web that are actually helpful

by Pete on February 20, 2008

I’ve been experimenting with two different web services for the last week or two, both of which have turned out to be rather helpful. The first is Instapaper. It’s yet another bookmark management site, but whereas del.icio.us and other such (…)

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Our candidate is too successful for me to support.

by Pete on February 19, 2008

Paul Krugman expresses further doubts this morning about Barack Obama: One thing I worry about a lot if Obama is the Dem nominee — and he’s surely the frontrunner now — is that there will be a backlash against Obamamania. (…)

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Thought experiment

by Pete on February 13, 2008

I am trying to figure out whether, in some universe where John McCain did not *constantly* use the phrase “my friends”, I might dislike him slightly less. Seriously–it makes me crazy.

Priorities, part 2

by Pete on February 13, 2008

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the current main page of the website of the New York Times: Pushed down below this extensive and prominent coverage of whether athletes took steroids are, among others, the following headlines: “Top Hezbollah Commander (…)

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Attention, Ayn Rand fans

by Pete on February 12, 2008

Crazy old man, looking for suckers to continue financing his vanity.

Ready on Day 1

by Pete on February 12, 2008

UPDATE: And while, unlike Clinton, Obama voted against the amendment removing telecom immunity, he apparently couldn’t be bothered to vote one way or the other on the final bill. Good work, Democrats! *** From today’s New York Times: WASHINGTON — (…)

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A plea

by Pete on February 11, 2008

There are several words that should immediately be banned from the news media and the Internets. One is “superdelegates.” Some others are “smoke-filled rooms.” There are any number of ways that the contest for the Democratic nomination could play out (…)

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The fruits of “inevitability”

by Pete on February 11, 2008

I’m on the road today. Instead, read what Hilzoy says.

Stephen Fry runs Linux

by Pete on February 10, 2008

Stephen Fry, in his latest “Dork Talk” column in yesterday’s Guardian: The two great pillars of Open Source are the GNU project and Linux. I shan’t burden you with too much detail, I’ll just make the outrageous claim that your (…)

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