Posts from July, 2004
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Jul1Quote of the Day
Actually, it?s always been quite a dismal day. There was certain music on the radio, the same dinner, a huge argument between my brother, who was intensely communist, and my dad, who had just been bumped up into the hierarchy of an evil empire that was charging starving people far too much for drugs. I [...]
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Jul21The Dry Run
It’s easy to develop “war on terrorism” fatigue. From daily reports of car bombings, vague color-coded warnings, and the unfortunate ways the terror threat is glued to our current polarized political/cultural state, I’m certainly guilty of tuning out. Consider me tuned in again. Bored, I started into a pilot’s commentary on Salon about another writer’s [...]
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Jul1Browsing: Firefox
Concerned about our site’s customers abandoning IE due to security flaws, I downloaded the latest Firefox release. The simple and streamlined browser is a result of Netscape’s Mozilla open source project. Although tabbed browsing isn’t exactly an innovation, Firefox just gets it right. There are a few necessary features like pop-up blocker and password manager, [...]
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Jul1Deconstructing: Jeff Tweedy
“To a listener accustomed to Hootie and the Blowfish, Wilco sounds like the Minutemen?daring, allusive, funky, weird, and yet so right. To a listener accustomed to the Minutemen, Wilco sounds like Hootie and the Blowfish…” Stephen Metcalf, and a new book called Wilco: Learning How To Die …dare to suggest that this “culturally significant” band [...]
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Jul0I’m Not
The following is a collection of statements made by the president and his official spokesmen since 1997. Originally appeared in the the May issue of Harper’s Magazine. Hat tip: www.andrewsullivan.com The President of the United States is not a fact-checker. I?m not a statistician. I?m not a numbers-cruncher. I?m not one of these bean counters. [...]
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