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How did Peter Pribik know Libeskind was gonna win the WTC competition last Saturday? Scary.
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This deal plugs your Palm Pilot into your car so you can figure out why the “service engine soon” light is on. It displays diagnostic codes, makes some cool graphs, and gets you through smog check.
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Here’s one of the original texts on the Emergent Democracy meme that’s got so many people excited:
Well, they are people, just like us – from within our own solar system. Except that their society is more highly evolved. I mean, they don’t have no wars, they got no monetary system, they don’t have any [...]

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“Jealousy is for women, men are not supposed to be jealous”. Meg Hourihan snarks her ex-partner Evan Williams for his successful sale of Pyra Labs to Google, to wit:

I’ve noticed that both Ev and Jason Shellen, following Google’s acquisition of Pyra, now have disclaimers on their websites stating that everything written there is their personal [...]

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Cowardly Joi Ito as much as admits that his ideas about the so-called “emergent democracy” are incoherent and indefensible, and concedes defeat by banning me from leaving comments on his blog (right after I said by-bye). Read the whole thing, it’s a hilarious example of the kind of reasoning that’s very stylish in France these [...]

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The Sacramento Bee — sacbee.com — GOP unveils its no-tax-hike plan: “Senate Republicans unveiled their long-awaited plan Wednesday to fill California’s budget hole without raising taxes, saying they would roll over a $3 billion deficit until 2005 and slash billions from state programs.”
Jim Brulte, Senate Republican leader and likely candidate for Governor in ‘06 if [...]

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The Well is a pay-to-play gated electronic community for Marin County-esque hot-tubbing, partner-swapping left-wing Democrats who thrive on self-deception. Wellberts, as Well members are called, are the kind of people who claim to be passionate about civil liberties while expelling members from their community who don’t follow the hive mind in all its excesses. Long-time [...]

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Bush Protesters Are Taking to Information Superhighway:

Organizers of the “virtual march on Washington” said that Senate offices and the White House were deluged with more than 1 million calls and faxes.
“We are getting slammed by the virtual marchers,” said an aide to Sen. Zell Miller (D-Ga.), who supports President Bush in the use of force, [...]

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Not to be outdone by the Mercury News, Adam Greenfield proposes an open-source constitution for the “post-national era”. Really, I’m not kidding:

The question then becomes, what kinds of constitutional structures are appropriate to furthering the stated aims in an internetworked, interdependent age? What sorts of arrangements of power between humans can account for the deep [...]

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The Mercury News is now upset with President Bush for not dictating security policies to ISPs and others:

But the Internet is also a medium where anyone’s poor security can affect everyone else. In such an environment, setting basic standards makes sense. Why not require ISPs to secure their broadband customers with firewalls?
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