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Tuesday, April 20, 2004

A tale-of-the-tape for two White House scandals. Eric Alterman noticed yesterday that the New York Times' Maureen Dowd drew a parallel between Clinton's Lewinsky scandal and Bush's abysmal Iraq policies. Dowd wrote: "Just as the the Democratic president ducked behind the parsed line, 'I did not have sexual relations with that woman,' so the Republican president ducked behind the parsed line, 'I have no war plans on my desk.'" Alterman didn't much care for the "moral equivalence" of Dowd's comparison. Let's do a tally, shall we? People dead from Clinton's lie: 0 People dead from Bush's: tens... [The Carpetbagger Report] 7:55:35 PM  Permalink  comment []

[Hero] Stop teaching our kids this evolution claptrap. [Weekly World News]] [Fark] 3:25:07 PM  Permalink  comment []

Batch URL download in Safari via the clipboard. As explained in this earlier hint, you can copy and paste into and out of the latest Safari's Downloads window. But this trick gets even more interesting if you have multiple URLs in your clipboard separated by carriage retur... [macosxhints] 3:19:45 PM  Permalink  comment []

Replacing The Mouse With Thumb Control. MIT's Tech Review has a short article about a new type of mouse replacement that sounds like a fairly intelligent input device that takes out much of the carpal tunnel risk by recognizing that simple thumb movements can easily designate where you want the cursor to move. [Techdirt] 2:57:11 PM  Permalink  comment []

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