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Check out BushLites, a blog that explains its purpose in its “about“ page: [I]f people realize how much we need Howard Dean, we have a chance to do some really good things.

Was Saddam Statue Event Staged for Cameras?. David Theroux of the Independent Institute sends a link to a page that may raise serious questions about an event… [Dan Gillmor’s eJournal]Can the tail wag the dog..? [Curiouser and curiouser!]There’s some intersting stuff here. It certainly has more than a whiff of conspiracy theory to it, but…

Palm “Aggregator”. BlogPluck (New). BlogPluck converts web logs in RSS/RDF format to Plucker documents for offline reading. BlogPluck is a Java Web Start application. It can be downloaded, installed and run with a single click. [PalmOpenSource.com] [Ian’s Messy Desk] This is worth checking out – might be a great way of making some weblogs available…

Calling Howard Dean “the indie rock star” of the Democratic race, Garance Franke-Ruta writes in The American Prospect that Howard Dean “makes you feel like you’ve been waiting your whole life for someone to say what he says.” The article analyzes each candidate’s performance: Kerry: “surprisingly unimpressive, almost listless” Sharpton: “a boon to the race, [despite]…

Good-Bye 3G – Hello Wi-Fi Frappuccino. One of the ( perhaps too often repeated) themes around here is always about how businesses should keep an eye out for disruptive technologies and be ready to embrace them before they take over a legacy business. Unfortunately, there are plenty of examples of companies failing to do this…

This is a significant win for Governor Dean’s campaign – as Silicon Valley’s Congresswoman, she is extremely influential on tech policy and should provide some needed weight in the effort to raise money among the Valley’s entrepreneurs. I look forward to seeing some policy declarations out of the Dean campaign on issues like privacy, Internet…

Words cannot describe how mind-bending this sounds. Just five weeks to go before Matrix Reloaded is released. If the dojo fight in The Matrix was a kung fu sonata, the Burly Brawl is a symphony. Neo tears the sign from the ground and wields it as a kendo sword, vaulting pole, and battering ram. A…

I’m thrilled that the regime in Baghdad is by all accounts through. While I still believe that the botched diplomacy that led to the war will create tremendous challenges for us in the years ahead, I think that the end result is a positive one for Iraq. That said, don’t you think we could have…

From Dan Gillmor comes this update on the plight of Mike Hawash. (For more information,& ;visit the Free Mike Hawash site.) Well, at least it’s now official information that the federal government is holding Maher (Mike) Hawash, an engineer who has worked for years at Intel, in an Oregon jail. Hawash, a U.S. citizen who…

I’ve added about a dozen articles to the Press Clippings page from April, and added a new video at C-Span of Governor Dean’s presentation to the New York State United Teachers Meeting last week to the Video Page. The speech is a variation on his standard stump speech, but tailored to an education audience. He…