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Saturday, March 22, 2003
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Microsoft: We Make Hackers Obsolete: "Microsoft software is carefully designed to keep your company's valuable information in, and unauthorised people and viruses out. Which means that your data couldn't really be safer, even if you kept it in a safe. Which is great news for the survival of your company. But tragic news for hackers." [Privacy Digest]
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CNN and the denial of death -- Comment()
Scott Rosenberg: 'I just haven't had it in me to go bonkers posting war links -- links wondering about whether that was Saddam or a double, links wondering why shock and awe hasn't started yet, shocked and awed links now that it has, and so on. [...] War kills people. Whether you feel that this war is justified or not, whether you agree with Bush's decision to invade or not, you cannot truly "support our soldiers" without acknowledging the skull beneath the skin of battle -- without staying conscious of the fact that everyone involved, on both sides, is in mortal jeopardy as long as this war proceeds. [...] For all the whizzbang 3D maps and crawling newsblip texts and live satellite feeds and pyrotechnic skyline shots, the hyperactive screens of the cable news channels have no room for this one truth. And to me that makes the whole medium feel like a lie.'
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Scripting News: "Best feeds for war coverage: AP War News (provided by GoUpstate), BBC World News, NY Times Front Page, International, National, Politics (provided by UserLand)."
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Internet Topic Exchange: "The Internet Topic Exchange, looks to be a very interesting way to increase the flow of information and discussion. Will be reading more at the wiki over the next few days to see if the Blogger.com system could work within the system. I have noticed that the Topic Exchange will be using trackback technology as well as rss and category indexing to help organize the posts." [Private Ink]
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Joi Ito writes: "TouchGraph GoogleBrowser V1.01 is a cool Java tool to let you see your Google neighbors. Uses Google API. Reminds me a bit of the Blogstreet visual neighborhood."
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Voltaire: "When we hear news we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation." [Motivational Quotes of the Day]
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Empire: "An insightful essay as always at MonkeyX: Welcome to the new American Century." [HubLog > A Man with a Ph.D. - Richard Gayle's Weblog]
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Justice Scalia says rights excessive, can be scaled down in wartime: 'U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia had this to say on Tuesday: "The Constitution just sets minimums ... Most of the rights that you enjoy go way beyond what the Constitution requires." According to Scalia, during wartime, "the protections will be ratcheted right down to the constitutional minimum."' [kuro5hin.org]
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Scripting News: "Technorati's new current events page. Annotated. Updated every 15 minutes."
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Scripting News: "My new camera is slightly larger than a cell phone. My old camera was an order of magnitude larger. I tend to take the new camera with me. It fits into a pocket. Yesterday I got pics of the demonstration at Harvard because the camera was in my pocket when I came upon the demo."
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