Mark Frauenfelder:
Merlin Mann of 43 Folders writes about “the strange allure (and false hope) of email bankruptcy,” which is Lawrence Lessig’s last-resort method for getting out from under thousands of emails waiting for replies. I especially liked this part:
Email is such a funny thing. People hand you these single little messages that are no [...]

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So around 9:00 last night I began seeing rumblings on twitter coming out of the Wall Street Journal “D” conference in NYC that Microsoft was going to launch something either late last night or this morning. Shortly thereafter, the name leaked: Microsoft Surface. While I vaguely recall seeing something about this or similar to this [...]

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cecil vortex: An Interview with Ze Frank
Cecil Vortex recently talked with with Ze Frank about the creative process, including how he came up with new stuff every day for The Show. Lots of good stuff to glean from this short interview, including how Ze employs an association trick called “morphological synthesis.”

CV: Do you have any [...]

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Not only has Vista not fueled a boom in PC sales, but as computer prices have come down, there’s been a lot of talk about the “Windows tax”, the growing share of a computer’s cost that just goes to Microsoft. As the Windows tax has grown, there’s been a rise in crapware (to help [...]

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For years and years, plenty of people (including the Government Accountability Office) have been pointing out why the FCC’s numbers on broadband penetration are wildly misleading. Remember, they simply count by zip code. That is, if a single house has connectivity from a single provider in that zip code, the FCC says that [...]

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IGN has a preview of Civilization IV: Beyond the Sword, checking out the new features and scenarios available in this expansion pack. GameSpot
(Via Shacknews - News Feed.)

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“Americans have opened nearly 1,000 new graves to bury U.S. troops killed in Iraq since Memorial Day a year ago. The figure is telling — and expected to rise in coming months. In the period from Memorial Day 2006 through Saturday, 980 soldiers and Marines died in Iraq, compared to 807 deaths in the previous [...]

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The question on many readers’ minds is how Engadget’s Ryan Block could have known, or even suspected, that the “iPhone is delayed” email was fake.
Easy: Because there was no actual press release from Apple.
(Via Daring Fireball.)

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Just one of the few pics I took of my new apartment. Apparently Jacob and I have the same bookshelf now as well

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Last week, Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Charles Schumer (D-NY) called on the Senate to hold a no-confidence vote on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
The White House and its conservative allies quickly derided the vote, calling it “nothing more than a meaningless political act.” This morning on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) called it [...]

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