I don’t recall if I linked to this earlier, but it surely merits at least two links anyway. Gene‘s article “Iraq: Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Wrong War” really deserves the description some over at Stand Down have given it: the definitive argument against invasion.

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Cross posted on Stand Down A famous anecdote about Reagan has it that, when presented with some numbers which seemed to tell against one of his policy goals, he simply told an aide: “well, get me different facts, then.” Flash-forward to the ouster of economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey, who was tactless enough to give a […]

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Look’s like Ms. Tushnet’s shooting for a 2003 “best series” award. Check it.

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So the whole “no TV” thing had prevented me until now from catching Joss Whedon’s new sci-fi series “Firefly“, an error I’ve finally rectified. This makes me hopelessly late to the ball — the thing started airing in September — but I figured I’d formally register my approval. It’s not as relentlessly clever in the […]

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Hey– free idea if someone with a far better programming hand than mine feels like putting in some long nights: write a client to work with TiVo boxes that’ll put them on the Gnutella network or some variant thereof. Trade episodes directly (no idea what format TiVO uses) or compress to MPEG on the fly.

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