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…and happy new year.
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The latest buzz from Sound Politics is that the Seattle election canvas board has given enough of the questionable ballots to their candidate Gregoire to overturn the two previous counts and give the election to the annointed Democrat. Democrats in the Seattle media are circling their wagons around the canvassing board and declaring their critics [...]

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Marc Cooper reports that Hugo Chavez will receive the presigious Ghadafy Human Rights Award for his efforts in media censorship:

Venezuelan con man, Bolivarian Revolutionary, Great-Thinker and sitting President Hugo Chavez has just returned home from a tour of showcase democratic countries including Cuba, Iran and Libya. Chavez dropped in on Colonel Ghadafy, by the [...]

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Tomorrow’s your last chance to give to the Spirit of America blogger challenge.
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A number of anti-war people are holding up an alleged Iraqi blogger who goes by the pseudonym “Riverbend” as the authentic voice of the Iraqi people. Martini Republic, David Isenberg, and the pretentious Juan Cole are examples. But it’s unlikely that Riverbend is what she claims to be.
On MR’s comments, USA Today writer Cesar Soriano, [...]

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Juan Cole, the pretentious history professor from Michigan, made some especially idiotic remarks about Iraqi bloggers recently, and Jeff Jarvis had to set him straight:

The man is pond scum. I know no other way to say it. This guy Cole (supported by your tax dollars in Michigan) decides that if he disagrees with someone, he [...]

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Lycos has invented a completely brilliant method of combatting spam. It’s a screen saver that pings spam sites when you’re not doing anything else with your computer. The idea was to increase spammers’ bandwidth bills, but it was so successful it completely knocked many of them offline, so they’re doing a bit of re-tooling:

A campaign [...]

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There’s been a great deal of buzz around the new The Becker-Posner Blog by a Nobel Prize winner and a hot-shot judge. I’m happy to welcome the two boys to Blogistan, and I further would like to encourage them to support Friday Cat-Blogging, one of Blogistan’s finest traditions.
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Check this about Sharp Labs from EE Times:

Camas, Wash. – Sharp Laboratories of America aims to turn your TV into a Web-surfing, news-gathering, sports-summarizing, on-demand movie viewing, e-mail center. As the beachhead for U.S. imports from Japan’s $20 billion Sharp Corp., Sharp Labs also has designs on your cell phone, video recorder, document-imaging system and [...]

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You’ve probably heard about a study done by a sociology professor and some of his minions at Berkeley proporting to show anomolies in the e-voting numbers in Florida. Careful analysis of the study’s models by people with no axe to grind show that it’s a total load of crap:

“They either overlooked or did not bother [...]