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Convoy Whack-A-Mole

So the Pentagon is pinning its anti-Saddam hopes on yet more DNA testing of the organic residue from its Mob-style hit on a bunch of SUVs in Iraq last week. Officials said they had...

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Up Close And Personal

Specialist Corporal Michael Richardson added: “There was no dilemma when it came to shooting people who were not in uniform, I just pulled the trigger. “It was up close and personal the whole time,...

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Smear Campaigns

The astonishing ineptness of the various smear campaigns and forgeries promulgated by the pro-war propagandists during the Iraqi invasion has been astonishing. Or perhaps disinformation campaigns were always this bad, but knowledge and access...

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Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!

Jerry Springer has officially launched his RunJERRYRun political activism website. He wants to be one of the Senators from Ohio, and apparently is counting on bringing out his core vote to achieve victory: slack-jawed...

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Down And Out

Grrrrrr, DSL is down. MCI Worldcom, the bankrupt crooks I buy my DSL from, are now apparently so cheap that they have no backup routers available. So when a single router goes down, they...

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Novus Ordo Seclorum

Media Jukebox just finished batch converting all my old, gnarly ID3v1 MP3 tags into ID3v2 super-fast MP3 tags. So now I can embed album art and lyrics in them. The operation took over 24...

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Airfare Arbitrage

So some clever bonces have knocked out a quick’n’dirty airfare arbitrage engine, a kind of Black-Scholes for airfares. How long before the airlines start adjusting prices non-deterministically to fox cherry-picking price search precognitive engines?

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Off With His Head!

John Dean, Nixon’s lawyer, thinks King Bush might be impeachable… Presidential statements, particularly on matters of national security, are held to an expectation of the highest standard of truthfulness. A president cannot stretch, twist...

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Girls Gone Mendacious

I was surprised to note that an alleged representative from the legally challenged Girls Gone Wild krewe is disputing my interpretation of their “reality porn” business. Earlier here.