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Sunday Times: Dr. No and the Yes Men I really wanted to like this profile, but in the end I didn’t. The article lurches forward on a few assumptions: that the primary fuel for the Dean campaign is liberal rage, that Dean is a protest candidate and little else, that the Democratic establishment doesn’t get…

So here’s a crazy idea – what about signing over the tax rebate that is on its way to the Dean campaign? Not only would it be a windfall for the campaign if we reached critical mass, but the PR bonanza (“Bush tax cuts fund rival campaign”) would be amazing.

ABCNEWS.com : Dean, Graham Make Strange Bedfellows Marc Ambinder speculates today that Governor Dean may be planning ahead and flirting with adding Graham to his ticket. While talk about possible VP candidates is very early, here are some noteworthy items about this article: Gov. Dean is identified (finally!) as a progressive candidate. Later in the…

Bag and Baggage – Denise Howell: D conference highlights  Technology is not as easy and cheap as it could be, not yet the ultimate tool. There’s nothing more fun than working in this industry. — Bill Gates, on why he’s still working. I’m so jealous of Denise – D sounds like quite the conference. Denise’s…

If you haven’t been by HowardDean.tv in a few days, swing by – they have new video of the Governor’s speech in Sacramento in March (at the Democratic Convention). While this speech has been widely seen (it is still available at C-Span and Carl with a K’s site), this is near-DVD quality video. For those…

If you’re interested, there’s a good thread over at Slate Magazine about the Democratic race (as reported in Saletan’s piece “Democrats Turn Left“).

Bloglet is a neat little XML-RPC service that parses RSS feeds and sends them via e-mail to subscribers. (If that sentence doesn’t make any sense to you, read below.) But in the past month it appears to have choked – the website is dead (I tried repeatedly to connect to it last night and this…

News: Lieberman woos tech leaders In some early maneuvering for the 2004 election, a group of technology executives and venture capitalists said Wednesday that they believe Sen. Joseph Lieberman is the best choice for president. Getting John Doerr (a huge contributor and quite a force in the tech industry) is a coup for the Lieberman…

I could really use five minutes of your time if you’re a CSS wiz. For whatever reason, IE 6 is misformatting my home page. It loads the entire page, but then only displays column one (with the blog posts) up to the point at which column two ends. Everything that falls below that point is…

I admit it, I did it. And according to The Geek Test, I scored a 37.86982%, which makes me a “Major Geek”. Thanks to Jim McGee, who linked to this. (And he kicks my butt as a geek – and scores 53%, making him a Super Geek.) How’d you do?