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  Friday, 21 April 2006


Dictionary.com Word of the Day


implacable:

incapable of being pacified.

[Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
1:08:05 AM    
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Armstrong to run in NY marathon


Cycling legend Lance Armstrong is planning to compete in the New York City Marathon in November.

I have a new friend, Spiro, currently training for the NY marathon. It tickles me to think if him competing against Lance.

[BBC Sport | Other Sports | Cycling | World Edition]
1:01:48 AM    
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Rolling Stone: Worst President in History?


Rolling Stone: Worst President in History?

Atrios has an excerpt of the article.

"By contrast, the Bush administration -- in seeking to restore what Cheney, a Nixon administration veteran, has called "the legitimate authority of the presidency" -- threatens to overturn the Framers' healthy tension in favor of presidential absolutism. Armed with legal findings by his attorney general (and personal lawyer) Alberto Gonzales, the Bush White House has declared that the president's powers as commander in chief in wartime are limitless. No previous wartime president has come close to making so grandiose a claim."

You can read it here also.

[Crooks and Liars]
12:51:25 AM    
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Dictionary.com Word of the Day


patina:

a superficial layer.

[Dictionary.com Word of the Day]
12:47:04 AM    
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Firefox plugin cracks PDF copy-restriction


Cory Doctorow: Sherwood sez, "This Firefox extension allows you to view linked PDFs as HTML, allowing the same copy protection bypass mentioned in Cory's Use Gmail to break PDF copy restrictions post."

So here are two methods to break a copy protection protocol. Forget it guys; we need a new way of thinking about freedom of information. This is a revolution, team, so let's understand it and adapt to it, or be buried by it.

Link

[Boing Boing]
12:38:19 AM    
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My gig tonight



12:09:56 AM    
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