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Wednesday, July 30, 2003

The Bush Administration's Lies on Terrorism and Iraq Their lies are legion. This Common Dreams article nicely documents and refutes them. 4:17:21 PM  Permalink  comment []

Poindexter's Follies. Revelations about his idea to trade in terrorism futures has made one thing clear: The time has come to send John Poindexter packing. [New York Times: Opinion] Well, that and the fact that he's a convicted felon. 4:03:00 PM  Permalink  comment []

A look at Toast 6's Spin Doctor (images). Roxio's next upgrade to its Toast CD authoring software, Toast 6 Titanium, will ship with a brand-new version of CD Spin Doctor. A source provided Think Secret with a few screenshots of Toast 6's Spin Doctor at work. [Think Secret] 9:34:51 AM  Permalink  comment []

Party time in the Park. EFF Freedom Fest, San Francisco, August 9. EFF's first annual Freedom Fest is coming up on Saturday, August 9th, from noon to 5PM in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. This is a giant, free, outdoor concert with loads of interesting speakers and all the gratis fun you can eat. * Box Set, the clown princes of folk rock * Noelle Hampton, award-winning rock diva * Austin Willacy, rock, pop and soul crooner * Colin McGrath, singer, strummer, arranger * Lasana Bandele, the "Storitela" from Jamaica Link [Marc's Voice] 9:11:52 AM  Permalink  comment []

The marriage of SQL and XML. A major shift in the style of enterprise data management is under way, and there are huge architectural issues yet to be resolved. Oracle, not surprisingly, wants you to store everything in a centralized hybrid DBMS. IBM says it would rather enable you to federate data across a range of sources. Each strategy has merit, and most enterprises will wind up pursuing both -- in different ways, for various reasons. Despite these differences, we are witnessing a sacred union. SQL and XML have been pronounced man and wife, and the honeymoon has begun. [Full story at InfoWorld.com] Jon's Radio] The article describes SQL/XML, a proposed standard way of getting XML out of a database. This is exciting, and it's great the Oracle and Microsoft are supporting it. I hope support for this standard comes quickly to mySQL. 9:05:31 AM  Permalink  comment []

Rolling Ball Sculptures, Automata, curiosities and Virtual Mechanisms. [Major FUN's Daily Briefing] 8:37:47 AM  Permalink  comment []

Illuminating the Renaissance. Yet another fabulous exhibition: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe. [The Cartoonist] 8:22:23 AM  Permalink  comment []

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