BushCo snuck in another one of their signing statements declaring provisions of four different defense bills an infringement of executive privilege. [link]
The signing statement indicates that Bush is actively seeking ways to keep America ensnared in Iraq well past his Presidency.
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(I’m just gonna let the Good Doctor speak for himself via this link.)
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The news that Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt had made a verbal commitment to work together for two decades struck me as interesting, because it implies that they indeed have a roadmap for much of those two decades already thought through. [link]
Certainly, Google’s made some acquisitions and embarked on other projects that don’t [...]

Firstly, with John Edwards stepping out, Ralph Nader is stepping in, making it even clearer that the real action will be after the nominations, with the potential for THREE third-party/independent candidates (Counting Bloomberg and Paul, assuming he stays in after the Republican Coronation.)
For me, the real revelation today was that of Edwards dropping out. I’d [...]

In astronomy, light pollution refers to the fact that typical city lights happen to drown out the night sky, since they often share the same wavelengths, and the proximity of the polluting city light is much closer.
This picture demonstrates the phenomenon very clearly: [link]
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When are we finally going to see an end to this preposterous string of corporate villainy? [link]
So let me see if I’ve got the sequence down here: First, the banks went on acquisition sprees after being deregulated. Then they made a bunch of bum loans, which wasn’t too bad until they packaged them up and [...]

In the wake of Google’s announcement of changes to AdSense that would discourage “Domain Tasters” comes ICANN making a decisive move and ending the practice once and for all.
One more step in the right direction, and hopefully it’ll shake some decent domains that nobody intends to ever develop back into public availability.
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Breaking news on Drudge; seems John Edwards is bowing out.
I don’t like that this leaves only Obama and HillBillary.
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Here is an excellent video I found via dmiessler.com that gives a profoundly stirring demo of Compiz Fusion running on Gentoo on the desktop: [link]
This, more than anything I’ve seen in a couple months or longer, gives me some motivation to finally ditch Windows for good. Now if I could just learn GiMP…..
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Dan Miessler, as he admits in pretty much the first stanza of an excellent post, already sums up what I’d just gotten done posting about not five minutes before. [link]
When do we switch to Obama? When Ron concedes. I don’t care that Ron doesn’t believe in evolution. As long as he keeps his religion out [...]