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Quotes of the moment
La Brigada has the best baby lamb intestines you can imagine.
You have a status quo bias. And like most people, you probably overinvest in goods and underinvest in experiences. Get off your bum and go. Many major cities in the USA have direct connections to Buenos Aires. You fly overnight and sleep on the plane. You wake up in a new universe.
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Oddness
So I take the plunge and get a flat screen monitor (the Samsung 930 B). I even get a new video card with a DV) – out as well.All that, and the fricking new monitor only comes with an analog cable!?!?!! Why do manufacturers do that? I had that happen with both of my SATA drives as well.
On the whole though, the monitor seems quite nice.
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A lovely new liberal site to replace the others
BloggingHeads .tv, a video dialogue, between Mickey Kaus and Robert Wright, two New Republic style liberals. Very well done and informative. It’s basically a lot of video files with the two principals on splitscreen.
An interesting concept and well executed.
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Friday roundup
- Do your children determine your politics? The gender of your children that is? VIA MR
- Husband and wife entrepreneurship.
- Sugar in the Gourd – Old time radio.
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This is an interesting concept
Splitscreen conversation on Blogging Heads.
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Funny
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More NSA
So now the NSA is under fire in the media for using cookies? Speaking as a web developer it’s difficult to do anything interesting without using them.
On a more troubling note, it seems to have occurred to no one in the punditsphere as to why should the NSA eavesdrop on Americans at all? I recall reading somewhere a while back that there was a reciprocal arrangement with the British version of the NSA that would allow the NSA to eavesdrop on Britons and the Brits would eavesdrop on Americans? It was all nice and legal, and accomplished the same objective.
As I said before, I had just assumed they were already doing this.
Two reasons come to mind as to why not:
- They didn’t want the British to know, which doesn’t really seem that likely
- They’re using, if not a new technology, then a new technique to determine who to wiretap, and they were applying it retroactively to already recorded conversations. Also they’re monitoring patterns more than anything. This would allow them to profile effectively, without actually saying the word profiling, which makes everyone happy.
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This is interesting
Sacco and Vanzettis look even guiltier! And Sinclair Lewis knew!
Actually that isn’t that interesting, but notable none the less.
Actually I thought it was assumed by everyone that Sacco was guilty, and Vanzetti probably wasn’t. Now it would seem they both were guilty, according to their lawyer.
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A blog for Dave
New Donkey, a Democratic blog that avoids most of the thing I dislike about democrats. It even reads a bit like it’s written by Dave Henson.
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Merry Christmas!
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