Author: Rick Klau

Stealing the entire post from Mat. This is unconscionable. Ok, you historians. Has there ever been a person forced to renounce his American citizenship as part of a plea bargain to a crime for which he was never charged? The first U.S. government-declared “enemy combatant” in the war on terror will soon be released from…

Twice in the past week my referral logs have told me something I didn’t know. In the first case, it was that a high school classmate and dear friend had passed away. In the second, it was that someone I’d written about a while back is in the news again. In both cases, the spike…

There’s a good mini-FAQ on Live Bookmarks here. Check out some of the cool ideas: Why keep your bookmarks to yourself? Services like http://del.icio.us let you publish your own bookmarks as RSS feeds, so that other Firefox users can subscribe to your bookmarks through Live Bookmarks. Live Bookmarks and del.icio.us makes it easy to share…

Thought some of you might be interested in what other tins readers are buying. Here is a sampling of what tins readers have bought this quarter at Amazon.com: Books: Blogging: Genius Strategies for Instant Web Content, by Biz Stone Dark Age Ahead, by Jane Jacobs Dreams from My Father : A Story of Race and…

Saw at Slashdot that Mozilla has released the preview release of Firefox. Cosmetically, little appears to have changed from the .9x version of the browser. But I did notice one really interesting enhancement: RSS integration. Check out what shows up in the lower right corner of the browser when you hit my site: When you…

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Just in case you hadn’t heard, Steven Seagal’s long awaited debut album is soon to be released: I’ve heard it, and it’s really not all that bad. Seriously, though, it really is that bad. I’ll just give you a teaser: think raggae rap. UPDATE: If you are so inclined, you can listen to some clips…

Scoble talked about the costs of RSS the other day. He compares the traffic costs associated with RSS readership to the costs associated with HTML readership. For the few reading who don’t know what I’m talking about: web pages that you view through a web browser are in HTML. Many weblogs (and an increasing number…

Some are questioning the authenticity of the memo. Atrios attempts to shed some light on the capabilities of certain typewriters. This reminds me of my own brush with juvenile delinquency. Senior year physics for dear Pete Keenan. Having secured early admission to my school of choice, I wasn’t, shall we say, a diligent student, particularly…

Mark Cuban shares a few opinions about drug prices, outsourcing, and Social Security. Great stuff.