Uh oh.. Somebody call the Wahmbulance on this guy:
I am 24, live with my parents, can’t find work and am floundering in a sea of debt five figures high. I think of myself as ambitious, independent and hardworking. Now I’m dependent, unemployed and sleeping under the same Super Mario ceiling fan that I […]

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Just installed the new OS X Leopard. I didn’t have any problems, unlike some, but then I have a fairly clean machine since it’s only a month old (thanks to the criminal element of Montreal).
It’s an incremental rather than a revolutionary improvement. The new features are nice, especially Spaces, the virtual desktop implementation, […]

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I got my iPhone! In fact, I’m posting this from it right now!
The keyboard takes some getting used to, but I’m getting the hang of it pretty quickly. Now I can write blog posts from anywhere..

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Microsoft bought a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240 million, pegging Facebook’s worth at $15 billion. Coca-Cola has a market cap of $14.7 billion, so Facebook is worth more than Coca-Cola.
This is pretty good evidence that we are in another tech bubble right now.. but then Microsoft’s actions have lately lacked a whole […]

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Stephen Green has a great piece on his falling out with the Libertarian party.
Next year, I’m not sure which party I’ll support for President, much less which candidate. From here, it looks as if the Republicans have become wrong and corrupt, the Democrats are stupid and corrupt, and the Libertarians have gone plain crazy.
I agree […]

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Wow, I haven’t posted anything in five days! Work has been utterly crazy, and I’ve been working 15 hour days trying to meet a deadline.
But now CTIA has started and we’re in “don’t break anything” mode. I’m actually going to leave work before 6pm today, which is pretty great and seems like hardly […]

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This is the greatest thing since sliced bread.
The EatMeCrunchy cereal bowl uses a milk reservoir system to expose only a small part of the cereal to milk at any one time, which means that most of the cereal stays high, dry, and crunchy throughout the meal.
This shelf covers 70% of the […]

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Life gets more and more like Robocop every day.
SA National Defence Force spokesman brigadier general Kwena Mangope says the cause of the malfunction is not yet known.
Media reports say the shooting exercise, using live ammunition, took place at the SA Army’s Combat Training Centre, at Lohatlha, in […]

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It’s all in the spin. Good news from Iraq? Not so fast..

At what’s believed to be the world’s largest cemetery, where Shiite Muslims aspire to be buried and millions already have been, business isn’t good.
A drop in violence around Iraq has cut burials in the huge Wadi al Salam cemetery here by at […]

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Violence in Iraq is down:
News coverage and debate about Iraq during the past couple of weeks have centered on the alleged abuses of private security firms like Blackwater USA. Getting such firms into a legal regime is vital, as we’ve said. But meanwhile, some seemingly important facts about the main subject of discussion last month […]

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A group of renowned nuclear physicists, economic experts, and energy policy professionals are saying that despite the problems our oil dependency causes, new nuclear plants are a bad idea.
I had been in favor of increasing nuclear power use, because my understanding was that new technologies (we haven’t built a new nuclear plant in the US […]

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From Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez’ speech and Q&A session at the Military Reporters & Editors convention:
Given the near instantaneous ability to report actions on the ground, the responsibility to accurately and truthfully report takes on an unprecedented importance. The speculative and often uninformed initial reporting that characterizes our media appears to be rapidly becoming the […]

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Despite his casual relationship with the truth, Al Gore has been awarded the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.
He joins such notable recipients as Jimmy “Ignorant Douchebag” Carter and famous terrorist Yasser Arafat.

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The question of what to do in Iraq today must be separated from the decision to topple Saddam Hussein four and a half years ago. That decision is a matter for historians. By any normal ethical standard, the coalition’s current project in Iraq is a just one. Britain, America and Iraq’s other allies are there […]

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Jimmy Carter was a terrible President, for a mess of reasons I don’t have time to get into. He’s even worse as a former President though, possibly the worst former President ever. He’s certified stolen elections as fair (because the Communist won), published anti-Semitic books, and now he’s an apologist for genocide.
Carter took […]

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Bjorn Lomborg has an interesting Washington Post piece on global warming and some sensible steps that can be taken to ameliorate its effects.
Proponents of pacts such as Kyoto want us to spend enormous sums of money doing very little good for the planet a hundred years from now. We need to find a smarter way. […]

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Christopher Hitchens writes about the family of a young soldier killed in Iraq, who was partially motivated to serve by Hitchens’ own writings on the moral case for the war in Iraq. This is powerful stuff that I don’t even want to excerpt, go to Vanity Fair and read the whole thing.

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You know why I love New Jersey? Because our politicians are paragons of virtue.
ATLANTIC CITY - Where’s the mayor?
Not since “Where’s Waldo?” and “Where’s the Beef?” has such a query caused such a stir.
In this resort, where the streets are literally paved by gambling revenues, they’re taking bets on what might have become of […]

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This is powerful stuff, former law enforcement officers discussing the drug war. LEAP website here.

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Schools will have to issue a warning before they show pupils Al Gore’s controversial film about global warming, a judge indicated yesterday.
The move follows a High Court action by a father who accused the Government of ‘brainwashing’ children with propaganda by showing it in the classroom.
Stewart Dimmock said the former U.S. Vice-President’s documentary, An Inconvenient […]

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