Is globalization bad for poor people? The New Republic editor Peter Beinart wrote an article for that magazine the other day making the case for the advantages of globalization. Ahead of the expected protests in Quebec City, Beinart writes that the anti-globalization movement had its origins in the best of intentions but has been derailed…
April, 2001
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Dictatorships, whether of the Left or the Right, rely to a great extent on their ability to suppress information. Technological innovations that began to sweep the world in the 1970s greatly reduced the ability of states to control the spread of information if they wanted to share in the economic benefits of that technology. The…
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Blizzard just released their version 1.06 patch for Diablo 2. The description made me laugh out loud, This latest patch eliminates duplicated items, improves the game’s network code and fixes prior copy protection issues. The “copy protection issues” pretty much made it impossible for people like me to play the game on some computers (mostly…
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This Lego project uses Mindstorms and Technic pieces to construct a robot that can solve a 3x3x3 Rubik’s Cube.
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With numerous web sites to manage and a lot of other side projects, I am always looking for ways to do things faster and more efficiently. The other day, almost by accident, I ran across an excellent Windows-only freeware program called Keynote. In many ways Keynote is simply a glorified outliner, but it’s one of…
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On Scripting News, David Winer says he’s getting a lot of “pushback” for the last sentence of his recent article, The Web is a Writing Environment. Of course once you read the last sentence, it is not too hard to figure out why, What’s said outside the barriers is already more interesting. Eventually we will…
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Just when I was about to post another article ripping on Cass Sunstein’s claim that modern media allow people to ignore differing views, along comes a report that Barbara Streisand wants to create a new television network that according to FoxNews “would ban Republican talking heads so Streisand and her fellow Dems wouldn’t have to…
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Jim Roepcke did a pretty good summation on his site of what would happen if a U.S. fighter took out a Chinese spy plan of U.S. coastal waters. But would American pilots really act irresponsibly? If you think the Americans wouldn’t be so irresponsible as to fly dangerously close to a spy plane, let’s recall…
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I got to arguing about cold fusion when it came up last week in a horribly credulous book review posted on Slashdot. I would have thought the whole topic would have died out years ago, but there are still those who insist that there’s really something to Pons and Fleischman’s bogus claims. One of those…
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Dr. Kenneth Cooper is a lifelong friend and personal physician of George W. Bush’s as well as a rumored replacement for current Surgeon General, although Cooper has indicated he does not want the job. Lets hope that not only does Cooper not receive any government position but that Bush also ignores Cooper’s recently released health…