March 19, 2003 – 12:00 am
Robert Wright thinks it’s the long term and second order stuff that we’ll need to worry about now that Geo. W. Bush has invaded Iraq.
March 19, 2003 – 12:00 am
Someone’s planted listening devices in the offices of several EU countries.
February 25, 2003 – 12:00 am
Alaric Snell started a list of the current permament threads on XML-DEV.
February 21, 2003 – 12:00 am
Bruce Sterling published an annotated version of Laurie Garrett’s now famous private email describing the world’s elites not being very festive at Davos.
(((Y’know, folks, sometimes it’s a little disquieting to actually be living in a 1980s William Gibson novel.)))
Wee! We’ve gone from living in a Tom Clancy novel to a Bill Gibson novel. It’ll be [...]
December 20, 2002 – 12:00 am
The Nation Institute launched a weblog, TomDispatch, and it opens with a doozy: Die Tageszeitung plans to publish the list of US and other Western firms who supplied Iraq’s weapons programs.
It’s been a common assumption that the Bush Administration wants to remove those names in the edited version of Iraq’s WMD disclosure intended for public [...]
October 11, 2002 – 12:00 am
[ via C. Ward ] Andrea Dworkin on the pathology making Palestinian women into suicide bombers:
The female suicide bombers are idealists who crave committing a pure act, one that will wipe away the stigma of being female. The Palestinian community is not sacrificing low women, women of no accomplishment, women with no future. Instead, the [...]
September 6, 2002 – 12:00 am
[ via Altercation ] For the record, someone’s gone through and fact checked Ann Coulter’s book. Okay, but I don’t think it’ll make her any less popular.
August 21, 2002 – 12:00 am
[ via laughingMeme via DavosNewbies ] A diagram, large, of the interrelationships between the entites and players in the current round of financial miscounduct.
You can get it on a tshirt too.
August 21, 2002 – 12:00 am
[ via The Knowledge Problem ] Jane Galt discusses the spam problem in the context of the Coase Theorem, and finds:
In short, there isnít (gasp) a market based solution [to spam], and short of a technological breakthrough that either significantly lowers transaction costs, or improves filtering to the point where spammers wonít bother, there wonít [...]
August 6, 2002 – 12:00 am
Laurent Murawiec is the RAND Corporation analyst who gave the briefing on Saudi Arabia as the Bete Noir of Islamic Terrorism which made the Bushies howl, and many folks on the Left and Right say “at least someone with the Beltway’s ear gets it.”
Murawiec’s briefing is, as far as I know, a classified document, but [...]
As pointed out by several weblogs yesterday, this business of a “Citizen’s Corps” reminds people of second-string baddie President Clark’s “NightWatch” on Bablyon 5.
We are talking about at TV show here, but it did a great job of playing with myth (considering it was a near-direct port of LoTR from Fantasy to Science Fiction), and [...]
Roger Costello posted an introduction to writing web services using the REST architecture. This spawned a long thread on the XML-Dev list with Paul Prescod defending and explaining REST to a long line of SOAP partisans.
The line of argument from the SOAP/XML Schema partisans is that REST is not sophisticated enough to handle the extreme [...]
Prentiss Riddle comments on Phillip Winn’s and my blog conversation about Noam Chomsky:
I do think there’s something to the “Manufacturing Consent” thesis, as I understand it: that our media, universities and other institutions are subject to a lot more groupthink than we tend to believe, and that our institutions are set up to foster and [...]
Meanwhile, over at War Liberal, another view of Fortuyn. This one’s not charitable, and quotes from one of his books. In this, he comes across as a mix of Newt and Pat.
Heck, at least REST v. SOAP is less controversial.
I don’t know Adam personaly, but I’ve been reading him long enough to trust his take on things. He talks about how Fortuyn got a raw deal in the media. I don’t agree with Fortuyn’s proposal to deny Muslims immigration rights, but I understand his reasons for it. The Dutch have worked many centuries (!) [...]
