March 31, 2004

BushCo: Outsourcing Still Good

http://www.salon.com/business/wire/2004/03/30/outsourcing/index.html
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Nader Advises Kery to Lighten Up:

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/03/30/nader/index.html "The Democrats should just stop whining and go to work," Nader said. That's for sure.
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March 29, 2004

39 Steps to Writing a Story:

http://www.usm.edu/english/center/the39steps.html "Mean less." Huh? [link via How to Save the World]
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How to Increase Your Blog Readership:

http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2004/03/23.html#a674 What, people are supposed to read this? [link via Scripting News]
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Iraq Diversion Shows Bush Weak on Defense:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&ncid=716&e=23&u=/usatoday/20040329/ts_usatoday/shiftsfrombinladenhuntevokequestions "Did opening a second front hurt the main effort to defeat terrorism?" Duh.
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March 26, 2004

PayCheckCity:

http://www.paycheckcity.com/netpaycalc/netpaycalculator.asp What would your take-home pay be in Minnesota (or any other state)? [link via Letters of Marque]
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Happy Birthday OS X:

http://www.arstechnica.com/etc/mac/index.html Ars Technica reviews the last three years of Mac OS X. They've been absolutely glorious for me. I can't imagine using OS 9 now...
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March 24, 2004

Powell crusades again:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1520&ncid=1520&e=3&u=/afp/20040323/pl_afp/us_attacks_powell_040323214429 "We gave them 24, 48 hours to consider it and then I called President Musharraf and said: 'We need your answer now. We need you as part of this campaign, this crusade'," Powell recalled in testimony before a commission investigating the attacks.
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O'Connor Speaks at UW Law School:

http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2004/03/17/news/wyoming/ababfb532515191d87256e5a000caac8.txt "A great lawyer always remembers the moral and social aspects of an attorney's power and position."
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Postage Prices Might Rise:

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/03/23/stamp/index.html Another consequence of the Bush tax?
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March 21, 2004

Your 1000 Day Birthday:

http://www3.sympatico.ca/scruss/1000days.html How many days old are you?
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q & a: the photographic interview:

http://www.sh1ft.org/q&a/ Play 20 questions and answer with images. Coming April 1. (Does that mean it's a joke?)
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FundRace Neighbor Search:

http://www.fundrace.org/neighbors.php Which candidate do your neighbors support?
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Is TypeKey the Patriot Act of blogging?

http://weblog.burningbird.net/fires/technology/typekey_the_patriot_act_of_weblogging.htm "With a centralized authentication system for comments, a person can be tracked by their comments wherever they go, even if they don't want to be so tracked. Six Apart says they would never share this information with anyone. I don't care -- the potential for abuse is there."
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March 20, 2004

Another Advisor says Bush wanted to bomb Iraq on 9/11:

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-iraq-retaliation.html?ex=1080743908&ei=1&en=7b065e118508cef0 ``They were talking about Iraq on 9/11. They were talking about it on 9/12,'' Clarke says.
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Everyone's working in Arlington, VA:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39139-2004Mar7.html For everyone else it's still a jobless recovery.
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What is TypeKey?

http://typekey.sixapart.com/ "TypeKey is a free, open system providing a central identity that anyone can use to log in and post comments on blogs and other web sites." Hmmm....
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iPod 4.0?

http://apple.weblogsinc.com/entry/4610517749549362/ Ok, who could possibly need a 50GB iPod? A color screen and video out might be kind of cool for storing/sharing photos, though...
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March 19, 2004

wordPhoto.org:

http://wordphoto.org/index.cfm "commence visual interpretation please"
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Who Cares What You Think?

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/03/19/bush_encounter/index.html One thing's for sure: Bush doesn't.
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Finnish bush and truck crash kills 23:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040319/325/eoysn.html "Police called the accident near the town of Konginkangas, some 300 km (200 miles) north of Helsinki, one of the worst in decades."
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Former Finnish PM acquitted:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040319/325/eoyx3.html "A Helsinki court has acquitted Finland's first woman prime minister of charges related to the leaking of secret documents on Iraq, a scandal that forced her to step down a year ago."
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Bottomless Pit 65 Feet Deep:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/promo/office/slideshow1.html Funny haha signs of the times...
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FCC Cracks Down on Profanity:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=8&u=/nm/20040319/ts_nm/media_indecency_fcc_dc So stupid. Nice to see the FCC has its priorities straight. Not.
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Scalia Refuses to Recuse in Cheney Case:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&e=6&u=/nm/20040319/ts_nm/court_scalia_dc Same old story, now with a few more details. See commentary on Letters of Marque.
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March 18, 2004

Justice Kennedy: Mandatory Minimum Sentences Wrong:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=558&ncid=703&e=10&u=/ap/20040317/ap_on_go_su_co/prison_sentences "The mandatory minimums enacted by the Congress are in my view unfair, unjust, unwise," Kennedy said.
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Park Service Cutting Budgets Underhandedly:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=513&ncid=703&e=9&u=/ap/20040318/ap_on_go_ot/national_parks_cuts "We all agreed to use the terminology of 'service level adjustment' due to fiscal constraints as a means of describing what actions we are taking."
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Cost Crunch Destroying National Parks:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&e=5&u=/usatoday/20040317/ts_usatoday/costcrunchwillforcenationalparkstoslashservices "Visitors to national parks this summer will find reduced ranger staff, services and visitor center hours..."
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March 16, 2004

The Nader Dark Side:

http://www.realchange.org/nader.htm Speaking of Nader, a few interesting snippets from a critic.
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Kerry and Bush side by side:

http://coollame.org/bushkerry.php Read the Kerry and Bush campaign blogs on the same page. Tweedledee and tweedledum? Too bad Nader doesn't have a blog....
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March 15, 2004

Maine considers expanding laptop plan:

http://news.mainetoday.com/apwire/D81B016O0-74.shtml The state already has 30,000 iBooks for its 7th and 8th graders, what's another 22,000 for the high school kiddies? At only $300/student/year, they'd be a steal. Priorities what?
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GarageBand:

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1762149 "You can make music faster than you can download it. Now that's progress."
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Bush, Kerry Race may test voter endurance:

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/03/14/bush_kerry/index.html No kidding!?
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March 14, 2004

Starbucks to Sell Digital Music:

http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/mar2004/nf20040311_7142_db016.htm "Sip on a mocha latte while using headphones to listen to any of 250,000 songs you call up on a computer. Then order the ones you like -- burned on your own CD -- to go."
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Air America Radio:

http://www.airamericaradio.com/ Coming to a radio station near you, March 31. I'm looking forward to "The O'Franken Factor."
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Military Families vs. the War:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48217-2004Mar10.html "How many more people are going to die because [Bush] can't say, 'I'm sorry, I made a terrible mistake'?"
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Make them eat their words:

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/031104A.shtml  "I don't understand how poor people think." — George W. Bush, confiding in the Rev. Jim Wallis, New York Times, 08-26-03
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Easier Internet Wire Taps Sought:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/washpost/20040313/ts_washpost/a54512_2004mar12 "James X. Dempsey, executive director of the Center for Democracy & Technology, a public interest group, said the FBI is attempting to dictate how the Internet should be engineered to permit whatever level of surveillance law enforcement deems necessary." Just what we need. You feel safer, don't you?
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March 13, 2004

Gov't Officials Looted 9-11 Sites:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040313/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/fbi_sept_11_rubble "The amount of theft from Ground Zero by federal officials is shocking,"
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flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/ "what if we put live chat together with social networks and enabled people to share media with one another in real time?"
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March 12, 2004

Police Coverup Alleged After Mass Arrests:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A48021-2004Mar10?language=printer "D.C. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey and other police officials conspired to deflect blame and cover up evidence of their wrongdoing during the mass arrests of anti-globalization demonstrators in September 2002, according to a D.C. Council committee that investigated the incident."
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iPod Used in Domestic Homicide?

http://apple.weblogsinc.com/entry/5618373272759249/ "Brad Pulaski had died of blunt trauma to the head after being repeatedly bludgeoned with an iPod, a popular MP3 player produced by Apple."
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Dean's web team goes commercial:

http://www.rklau.com/tins/archives/2004/03/10/deans_web_team_goes_commercial.php "Blue State Digital, a for-profit consulting firm that will apply the lessons learned from the Dean campaign to communications, fundraising, tech support, etc."
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RateMyTeachers:

http://www.ratemyteachers.com/index.jsp Oh man. As if teaching high school wasn't bad enough, now high school students can bash their teachers online for all the world to see!
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CA Supremes Halt Gay Marriages:

http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1078368981104 "But the court noted in its order that parties were not precluded from filing a separate action in superior court to challenge the constitutionality of state family laws that say a marriage is between a man and a woman."
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March 11, 2004

House OKs Ban on Fast Food Obesity Suits:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040311/ap_on_go_co/obesity_lawsuits "Those who overeat should blame themselves, not the fast food industry that employs almost 12 million people and is the nation's second largest employer behind the government, Republicans said."
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Hello Liberal Radio:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040311/ap_on_en_ot/liberal_radio "[Al] Franken will be the lead personality on Air America Radio, a startup venture promising a liberal alternative to powerhouse radio talk show pundits like Rush Limbaugh."
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Hope for Kerry Yet:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/ap/20040311/ap_on_el_pr/kerry Yesterday Kerry described his Republican critics as "the most crooked ... lying group I've ever seen." Careful John, if you keep that up, you just might get elected! Was he just talking tough for his meeting w/Dean?
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Right Questions Ginsburg's Conflicts:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/latimests/20040311/ts_latimes/ginsburghastiestoactivistgroup We should have known: W/Scalia's conflicts of interest under such close scrutiny, the right is digging up dirt on other Justices. So where will this go?
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Pixies Touring:

http://www.frankblack.net/miscfiles/pr-pixiesreunion.asp Why didn't anyone tell me? And why aren't they coming anywhere near here?
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March 10, 2004

Kerry-McCain '04?

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040310/ap_on_el_pr/kerry_mccain&cid=694&ncid=2043 "It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist, deficit hawk," the Arizona senator told ABC. Impossible?
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Choplifter Flies Again:

http://www.majicjungle.co.nz/chopper.html Only it's now called "Chopper" and it's free free free! I'm warning you, don't download this if you have work to do...
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Rehnquist Mulls Retirement:

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/03/09/Rehnquist/index.html He's nearly 80, while Stevens is 84. Yikes.
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Another Conflict of Interest for Scalia:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/latimests/20040308/ts_latimes/scaliaaddressedadvocacygroupbeforekeydecision I wonder if Nino ever heard of something called "hubris."
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Bush Sells Overnight Stays in White House:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&e=5&u=/ap/20040310/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_sleepovers "At least nine of Bush's biggest fund-raisers appear on the latest list of White House overnight guests, covering June 2002 through December 2003, and-or on the Camp David list, which covers last year."
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Ballmer's iPod:

http://www.macboy.com/cartoons/ballmer/ Yeah, that would be Micro$oft's Steve Ballmer dancing with his iPod. *grin*
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March 09, 2004

Weblogs: Extremely Democratic Journalism:

http://journalism.nyu.edu/pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2004/03/08/weblog_demos.html

"Weblogs potentially explode the world of authorship far enough that we can imagine a sphere of debate with millions of productive speakers where there was once an audience of millions listening to a few speakers dominate the public debate."

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Confessions of Max Tivoli:

http://www.salon.com/books/review/2004/03/08/greer/

The "season's literary breakthrough"? Does that mean it's a good book?

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Bush's Flip-Flops:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/3/7/213753/1954

Bush is casting stones from a huge and very fragile glass house when he tries to call Kerry a flip-flopper.

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History of Apple's OS:

http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/oshistory/ From Apple DOS to X, it's all here.
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March 06, 2004

Volvo for Women:

http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1749538.html The car, designed by and for women, "the car features low-to-no maintenance, dirt resistant paint jobs, no fuel caps and added storage. Also included are vertical passenger doors and headrests with an indendation to accommodate pony tails." And apparently it parks itself. I'll take it!
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Paying for Email:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040305/ap_on_hi_te/paying_for_e_mail_3 "Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates, among others, is now suggesting that we start buying "stamps" for e-mail."
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March 04, 2004

Kerry's Mission:

http://www.iht.com/cgi-bin/generic.cgi?template=articleprint.tmplh&ArticleId=508591 "I decided to give all my energy and strength to one more mission: to end the war in which I'd fought."
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AP Poll Shows Nader Spoiling:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&e=1&u=/ap/20040304/ap_on_el_pr/ap_poll_president If the election were today: Bush 46%, Kerry 45%, Nader 6%.
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March 03, 2004

McD's Bags the SuperSize:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&ncid=751&e=1&u=/nm/20040303/hl_nm/leisure_mcdonalds_dc What a relief. Now I can eat at McD's all the time and still be healthy!
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Harvard Gives Bush the Finger:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=570&ncid=753&e=1&u=/nm/20040303/sc_nm/science_cells_dc "Scientists at Harvard University announced on Wednesday they had created 17 batches of stem cells from human embryos, in defiance of attempts by President Bush to limit such research."
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March 02, 2004

More Evidence Walmart is Evil:

http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/0204/27walmart.html "A snapshot of Georgia's program for uninsured children shows that it's packed with kids of Wal-Mart employees."
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Make Your Own iPod Battery:

http://drewperry.co.uk/index.php?do=iPod&ipod=battery It's kind of clunky, but very cool. Here's the commercial version.
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