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OK, gang… Google has bestowed on me another 5 10 Gmail invites. Send me an e-mail with some indication that you’re a regular reader and I’ll send you an invite. First come, first served. No wagering. Update: Google just upped my supply. And demand has been rather light thus far. So let me know if…

John Kerry’s second in command in Viet Nam on PCF-44, spoke at tonight’s DuPage Democrats meeting. Wasser was one of the 13 men who fought alongside Kerry in Viet Nam who was on the podium with Kerry at the Democratic National Convention last month, and talked for over an hour about his impressions of Senator…

“Astroturfing” is nothing new. There have been plenty of stories about letter campaigns to newspapers that were clearly pre-written by interested parties. However, as the political season heats up, the practice is apparently increasing rapidly and upsetting plenty of editors, who don’t quite know what to do about it. Of course, as the first article…

Haven’t done a caption contest in a long time. This one struck me as amusing for some reason. Photo by Reuters. Leave your caption in the comments.

Erik notes that he received some e-mail from eBay recently that got flagged as spam, for a variety of reasons. Implementing a fix should be relatively simple, if eBay finds out about the problem. As Erik writes: Naturally, I tried to contact Ebay about this problem, as I assume they don’t want their email looking…

One of the reasons I bought my Motorola V600 (note: now $49.99 with rebates!) a few months ago was its Bluetooth capabilities. In particular, I planned to get a Bluetooth headset so that I’d have a wireless earpiece for the phone; friends had raved about them and I figured it would be a nice addition.…

I’m very excited to announce we closed our series A round of funding today with a mix of prior investors and new investors (most notably, Omidyar Network, the company founded by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar). Special congrats to Ross who worked tirelessly to make this happen, in addition to his normal CEO duties like, oh,…

This whole swift boat thing is getting goofy. It reminds me of the Bush camp’s use of Hitler in one of their web-only ads a couple months ago. Somehow, this election promises not to be about ideas, but about who can be more outraged at the other side’s outrage, and who can get John McCain…

Last month, Erik gave me a hard time about my utter failure at back-up, and concluded by saying that “I hope to convince Rick to back up his data.” I’m happy to report that I’m now backing up my entire hard drive on a regular basis, and it couldn’t be simpler. In the past, I’d…

From an observer at the dedication of the Hyde Atrium at Midwestern University earlier comes this gem from Henry Hyde: “When I first entered Congress I wanted to change the world, now I want to be able to walk out of the room with dignity.” Come on folks, give Henry the dignity he obviously wants.…