McCain is the front-runner in the Republican Party (the party that is supposed to understand the economy), and yet he admits he doesn’t.
Since we’re about to spend a few years in recession and have a massive public deficit, perhaps we should be electing a nerd who understands economics rather than a jock who only understands war.
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His new ad, airing on Fox News (no surprise) in New Hampshire, takes shrill, low-brow propaganda to a whole new level.
Must… not…invoke….Godwin’s…Law…
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Can we please get this warmongering yahoo out of the race?
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/01/6735_mccain_in_nh_wo.html
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One of my New Year’s resolutions for 2008 was to get my blog back up, in one form or another.
I finally figured out what went wrong with my MySQL upgrade this morning, got everything upgraded and configured, and even recovered my latest posts.
If anyone out there is an expert on Apache redirects, I would love some help on getting my old dasBlog posts imported into WordPress and redirected from their original URLs.
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The final video is out, and it’s pretty good.
But the author misses something important in every example of collaborative/social/web2.0 web sites: Yahoo, CNN, Blogger, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, etc.
The machine isn’t ours.
The singularity of human information we are creating with our writing, searching, tagging, and linking is hosted, censored, and managed by a small number of companies. The entire infrastructure of Web 2.0 is based on centralized command-and-control rather than decentralized hosting.
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ViaTalk has a 10-minute free VOIP service. Not sure how useful this would be for someone who already has a Skype account and trusts their network, but a great idea for travelers who aren’t using Skype for some reason and need to get a quick phone call out.
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Ok, even funnier than the last video. If you’ve ever done tech support, whether as a profession or for family, this is a must-view.
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My obligatory funny video of the day.
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Funniest thing I’ve seen today. Subscribed.
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Copyright is supposed to be a balanced deal struck between society and creative people, allowing them some limited exclusive rights to their ideas and expressions in return for the work they put into them.
Unfortunately, businesses like Disney have lobbied many times and turned that simple idea into an unlimited, unrestricted monopoly on ideas, music, movies, etc.
So what is the optimum length of a copyright? Turns out the founding fathers had it right: 14 years.
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