Dave Winer raked Burning Bird over the coals today for falsely claiming that in order to set up a weblog with Radio, you have to use Userland as a host. This is of course, incorrect. In fact, if I wanted to I could use Radio to post to my web site which isn’t on a…
April, 2002
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Fredrik Norman points to this rant by Andrew Dalton about whether or not it is ever appropriate during a war to intentionally target civilians. The short version is that most libertarians say that it is never appropriate, while some Objectivists assert that it is: Dalton writes, LIBERTARIAN WATCH: The one thing that seems to unite…
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Just added two new links to the list of my favorite web sites. COINTELPROTOOL is one of the better “warblogs” that I’ve been following lately. The Extropy Institute – well, my basic outlook is pretty much Extropian down the line, so I finally got around to linking to these folks.
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The Alphabet Synthesis Machine is a cool online tool for generating pseudo-alphabets — and turning them into downloadable TrueType fonts. The site also stores more than 700 user-created pseudo-alphabets.
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Matt Welch really caught the cultural difference between weblogs and traditional media when he told EPN World Reporter that with weblogs, All readers are urged to create their own sites — think about that: this is a medium that by definition encourages readers to establish competing media. That’s awesome and wonderful, I think. Glenn Reynolds,…
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Via Instapundit comes the funniest headline of the week courtesy of Yahoo!, News, Saudi troops mass on border with Jordan following reports of Israeli military buildup Of course, this is not your father’s massing of troops. According to the report, The eight brigades, compromising 8,000 soldiers equipped with armored personnel carriers and missile launchers, moved…
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Bill Gates is, of course, testifying in person during this round of the penalty phase of the Microsoft antitrust trial. He probably should have stayed home. According to the Associated Press, Gates actually testified today that the penalties proposed by the states could limit Microsoft’s ability to fix security holes in its Windows. Gates was…
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Yikes — it is easy to understand how celebrities get insulated from criticism and surround themselves with yes men, but this Time story claims that George Lucas did not realize that people did not universally love The Phantom Menace (I feel asleep near the end of the movie). Maybe George Lucas ought to get out…
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Today I received an e-mail from someone proposing a closer relationship between one of my web sites and a web site this person runs. The two sites cover the same topic and the other web site is far more popular than mine, so it’s not necessarily a bad idea. But to show how popular his…
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Telephone service in most developing countries is horrible. Typically a single monopoly company provides all service, and often there is corruption involved with contracts and agreements for providing service. THe result is that phone service in the developing world is horribly expensive in countries where people’s income is relatively low. In a country like Honduras,…