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Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: March 28, 2004 - April 03, 2004 Archives:
Now in a front page piece in Thursday’s Washington Post we learn that on September 11th, 2001 Condi Rice was scheduled to deliver a major foreign policy address on missile defense as the centerpiece of a new strategy to combat “the [...]

Found at Starbucks: The Pentagon’s Papers - - Center for American Progress:
Talking points, hand-written notes on spin tactics, and a hand-drawn map to the Secretary’s house were found by a resident of DuPont Circle, who made them available to the Center for American Progress. The name of said resident is being withheld at his [...]

rantandrave.org
Add your voice to the chorus of reason or just be snarky: it’s your chance to annoy the sanctimonious, the self-righteous, or plain old run of the mill knuckleheads . . . . .

Portgraph: graphing FreeBSD ports dependencies:
Portgraph is a Python program that produces dot (graphviz) output. The output shows a minimal dependency tree of the selected port, based on information from /usr/ports/INDEX. I suspect this is most useful for decorative purposes, though people trying to figure out load-balancing on build clusters might find it useful as well.
I’m [...]

Boing Boing: Gates’s vision — and failure thereof:
In the same breath, though, Gates predicts that software won’t be free — though he has no good explanation for this (presumably, it’s because universal free software would be bad for his business, so he can’t bring himself to contemplate the possibility).
I saw something about this earlier today [...]

GOP Sloganator highlights
The sloganator was a GOP-provided webtool that would generate custom Bush-Cheney posters. Pranksters used it to generate their own ironic slogans, until it was shut down. This Flash blog is a montage of some of the funniest.
1.7MB Flash link
(Thanks, Jason!)
[Boing Boing Blog]

Mena’s Corner: Where did those 22 other people come from?
Last week it finally sunk in that we’ve done an extremely poor job communicating about the growth of Six Apart to our users and to the weblogging community. This silence can be partly attributed to the sort of confidentiality that’s required when working with partners or [...]

The Poor Man: New Bush Ad

Tickle: IQ and Personality Tests - The Classic IQ Test - Your Results:
Your Intellectual Type is Word Warrior. This means you have exceptional verbal skills. You can easily make sense of complex issues and take an unusually creative approach to solving problems. Your strengths also make you a visionary. Even without trying you’re able to [...]

In fact, just the opposite is true: the effect on sales approaches zero, except for top-selling recordings: for them, sales increase as a function of their popularity on the download networks.
Empirical data on file-sharing’s effect on album salesKoleman Strumpf, a conservative, Cato-affiliated economist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has just [...]