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Not Mac this time, instead people who voted Bush in 2000, voting Kerry in 2004.

Howls of laughter continue

The New York Times > Business > Record Labels Said to Be Next on Spitzer List for Scrutiny

Secretary General Clinton?

A Clinton candidacy is likely to receive overwhelming support from U.N. member states, particularly the Third World.

Just in case you were, you know, wondering "What, exactly, is a URI?"

Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax This is, of course, of no interest to me. It's not like I haven't had to write (85 g'b'jillion) URI regexs and parsers in $1+1 different languages.

Luv me, luv my mad l33t perl references. :p

The problem is, you see ...

I am at 33 RSS feeds and counting. And all of the links they lead to. And all the political blogs. It takes me so long to read them all that I can only find time to link to interesting things. I can reinforce my own opinions or (rarely) change my mind, but I don't really get a chance to create a critical exposé and go into what I think in detail. Not that it is really interesting to you, dear reader, but it would provide more context and flavour. If I had something important to say that I wanted you to believe, I think that would help. Luckily enough most of what I think is explained more clearly by others who have a more focused output on the matter in question. Anyway, on with the linking.

Public Knowledge - Welcome

I think that it is a good thing™ that these guys are actually sitting at the table during negotiations over the Induce Act.

Slashdot | Secure, Portable, Virtual Privacy Machine

See, I want one of these but ... I want it the size of a pack of smokes. I want it to have all of the features of an iPod & a palm pilot. I want it to have several gigs of flash ram for the OS and apps and to (if I chose) save the text portion of my email. I want it to have the functionality of ZOË. I want a removable hard drive to store my media (and mail attachments). I want it to have HDTV out. I want it to have digital out for multichannel listening, with the codecs in firmware but DSP accelerated. It should have bluetooth/wireless/IR or somesuch and be able to live securely on a network as a passive media device or connected to a PC via USB/FireWire/SAS/xxx . It should cost less than $300 US. The headphone jack/amplifier should have externalization capability. The browser should be able to save all of my browsed pages and any other extension I choose to install.

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Music sales rise despite RIAA's best efforts

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2004

Some seriously cool pics.

Operation Snowbird

If only I had been able to expose my massive american audience to this a little earlier. Ah well, here's hoping it isn't necessary in 2008. Or wasn't in 2004.

Speaking of ships & sagas and dogs

I guess this is a more appropriate link.

Indymedia -> the continuing saga of a [ship|justice system|governemnt] that's gone to the dogs

From the Blog of Richard Allan, the MP who asked a question about it in parliament. Comments include a link to coverage in The Register. I love the fact that this stuff flies under the popular media radar.

Various Artists: Left of the Dial: Dispatches from the 80s Underground: Pitchfork Review

This compilation sounds pretty sweet to me. As long time readers, first time callers will know, I am not so extremely concerned about my mixes blending seemlessly.

Politech: Harper Markle Cato Water redux

Jim Harper replies to Stu Baker on "surveillance-industrial complex"

matthewgood.org | mblog: We're Better Than This

He is a good singer and composer too.