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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.

George W. Bush covers U2’s Sunday Bloody Sunday. Wow. (Thanks to PoliticalWire for the link.)

46% of Illinois Leader voters say Zell Miller. I’d say Zell and the Leader deserve each other.

Back in April I wrote about Rosemary Quigley, a good friend of mine from high school who suffered from cystic fibrosis. I had stumbled upon her Slate diary, in which she recounted her double lung transplant earlier this year. Two days ago, I happened to be looking through my referral logs (the server report that…

I recently bought the Jabra BT250 Bluetooth headset from Amazon; it’s a superb wireless headset designed for your Bluetooth-enabled cellphone. Last weekend, we finally made our pilgrimage to the first Fry’s in the midwest (it’s in Downers Grove). I picked up a D-Link DBT-120 USB Bluetooth Adapter for my Thinkpad, brought it home, plugged it…

Sometime today or tomorrow, the 1,000th American will die in Iraq since the beginning of the war. Reflecting on this sad milestone, I thought back to a report I remembered hearing on NPR last March about casualties. On the eve of our invasion of Iraq, NPR reporters asked people on the street in various cities…

Buzz Bruggeman: “Next time you are in a convertible get it up to 80 and stick your head above the windshield and you will get a little hint of what’s going on outside.” Glad you’re OK, buddy. Talked with my grandparents on Friday before Frances made land-fall, they sounded spooked. They were getting ready to…

Robert Baren: “I still like going on vacation to places you need a vaction to recover from.”