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Thursday, July 17, 2003 |
Finding Avie. How Avie Tevanian sullied one of Jaguar's best features. [Daring Fireball]
A nice, passionate, yet factual instance of one case where Jaguar went astray to the harm of Mac users.
9:18:12 PM Permalink
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It can't happen here
Is this anything but a nightmare? Getting quizzed by the FBI because you were seen reading something in a coffee shop is not something out of a nightmarish satire, but really happens in George Bush's America.
"I'll tell you what, Marc. Someone in the shop that day saw you reading something, and thought it looked suspicious enough to call us about. So that's why we're here, just checking it out. Like I said, there's no problem. We'd just like to get to the bottom of this. Now if we can't, then you may have a problem. And you don't want that."
3:50:10 PM Permalink
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Payback?. Payback? How did Bush officials get back at Ambassador Joseph Wilson for talking publicly two weeks ago about his trip to Niger to investigate claims of an Iraqi uranium deal? By outing his wife as an undercover CIA operative. As David Corn of The Nation says, "...the Bush administration has screwed one of its own top-secret operatives in order to punish Wilson or to send a message to others who might challenge it..... a pair of top Bush officials told a reporter the name of a CIA operative who apparently has worked under what's known as 'nonofficial cover' and who has had the dicey and difficult mission of tracking parties trying to buy or sell weapons of mass destruction or WMD material. If Wilson's wife is such a person--and the CIA is unlikely to have many employees like her--her career has been destroyed by the Bush administration." The exposure of an undercover CIA agent is in fact a federal crime. [MetaFilter]
1:46:39 PM Permalink
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It was a dark and stormy sentence
The 2003 winners of the Edward Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest are in.
It wasn't the desolate remoteness of the campsite that bothered him, or even the terrifying roar of the rapids beating themselves against solid granite below, so much as the eerie sound of pigs squealing in the distance and the fact that, in this light, cousin Billy looked disturbingly like Ned Beatty.
9:42:33 AM Permalink
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Three Problems with Google
Slate has a piece on three problems with Google, and I bet most people have seen these problems. Sometimes doing research on a mundane topic -- in this case they mention "apples" -- is really hard. Finding unbiased comparative product reviews is also tough, but it might be that not so many people are doing them anymore, though that's hard to believe.
9:37:02 AM Permalink
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Googling Fun. Go to Google. Type in "Who will be President in 2004?" Do not hit enter-- instead, click on "I'm feeling lucky." Also check out today's Doonesbury, in which Alex makes plans to write to Iowans at her Meetup.... [Blog for America]
8:58:17 AM Permalink
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