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Political

Sleight of hand

It would seem that the US isn’t the only country whose primary leader plays sleight of hand when it comes to debate: Australia’s Howard is using Obama’s candidate announcement speech to deflect discussion away from climate change to the Iraqi conflict. If I were the people of Australia, I would balance 1400 soldiers in Iraq against the fact that […]

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Media

Netflix vs Blockbuster: The winner is…

I had a Netflix account until Blockbuster came out with their, “Turn in a movie, get a movie” plan. It was a novelty to go into the local Blockbuster, turn in an envelope and get a movie. It was especially nice because online DVD rental places aren’t always good about sending that next video. Recently […]

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Technology

Web considered harmful

Jeremy Zwadony believes JavaScript and widgets are harmful, and points to situations such as Techcrunch and their recent slowdown. Of course, he hasn’t seen the supreme widget. I get irritated at the sites that have dozens of things in their sidebar, all of which slow page loads. Luckily, most of these sites provide full content in their […]

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Semantics

RSS kills gotos

Assaf: Everytime you meta-program, God kills a for loop. *snork* (Link thanks to Sterling.)