Tuesday, April 01, 2008

CBS 60 Minutes expose: In a just world, Bush would face a war crimes tribunal.

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The CIA destroyed the videos they made of the interrogation of Murat Kurnaz. When someone destroys documentation, the legal presumption is...
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Project Virgle: See it while it's up

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Virgin + Google = Virgle Virgle: The Adventure of Many Lifetime ... starting in 2014, Virgin founder Richard Branson and Google co-founders ...

Google Gmail and Calendar flailing

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Ok, so the rest of the net seems to be working, but in the past few days I've either experienced or received direct reports of recurrent...
Sunday, March 30, 2008

Gwynne Dyer: four new essays

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The historian and journalist Gwynne Dyer has four new essays online : Pakistan: Bhutto's assassination voided any deals with Musharraff ...

Bush's brilliant ploy, and why we should abolish the presidential pardon

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The Presidential pardon (think Marc Rich ) is an anachronism, a legacy of royalty. The pardon system allows Bush to run illegal operations,...

Google: creating the missing ecosystems

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This simple statement is both emintently reasonable and quietly astonishing: A Letter from Larry Page ...Sometimes you don't get a good ...
Saturday, March 29, 2008

What is schizophrenia? Not what we thought.

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Some recent results for a study of the genetics of schizophrenia got a lot of press attention. Among other things, the studies are one more ...
Friday, March 28, 2008

Juggling identities: Udell, Cameron and Identity Woman

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I've written about identity and reputation management , including a call for identity management services ... We need more identit...
Thursday, March 27, 2008

The American corporation and the centrally planned economies of the soviet empire

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Once in a while two loose neurons bang together and I look at the world differently. That happened earlier today. I'm almost always su...

XPonlinescanner: malware attack or very nasty ad? Interesting, either way.

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Last week I ran into Firefox attack while browsing a local website. I posted about XPonlinescanner.com: Malware infection on Star Tribune a...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Whimsley: a new addition to my bloglist

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I came across a new-to-me blog today, via Nicholas Carr. I enjoyed the post on Mr. Google's Guidebook and a few others, so I added Whi...

The Market as a satisficing mechanism for finding local minima - where did I get this from?

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A few months ago I fell into conversation with an exotic person -- someone young. This one had fallen into a familiar trap; he'd confuse...

Don't buy your iPhone this week -- iPhone order backlog

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There are lots of possible reasons for an imbalance between iPhone demand and supply: AppleInsider | Briefly: NYC iPhone sellout; new J...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

What if you lived in a world where nothing worked?

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You know, like Bizarro world . I think I've been slowly migrating into that world. My MetLife experience today was typical. I have an...
Monday, March 24, 2008

Head still exploding: The AT&T mobile phone rebate card scam

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After I wrote this post I wondered if I was over-reacting: Gordon's Notes: John's head explodes: AT&T rebate paid with an AT&a...
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