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New AT&T International iPhone Data Plans

November 2, 2007

Interesting to compare this with Canadian prices, when the iPhone is released here.

Jeb Bush on the Candidates

November 2, 2007

“Be genuine”. In the way, I suppose, that his brother was “genuinely” a compassionate conservative and “genuine” when he sold the country on invading Iraq.

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Mathew’s right – the new NYT tech page news aggregator is a nice development. Techmeme’s pretty cool, but as time has passed it has seemed to me to be too narrow a perspective of what is happening, and too focused on Web 2.0 fanboy content. I like the NYT’s approach (though I wish there were […]

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“News flash: Apple computers can crash”

November 1, 2007

Not perhaps entirely a news flash, but I’ll cop to being one of those too dazzled by Apple’s lustre to remain cautious enough about the upgrade. And it was a very bumpy ride.

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Anybody but Facebook

November 1, 2007

That’s probably not a fair description of the latest news in social media, but it’s not far off. Now I’m looking for someone smart – I think it would take someone really, really smart – to explain why, then this kind of dramatic reversal is increasingly characteristic of the geekspace, constant bleating about leapfrogging valuations […]

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Jon Swift: Facebook Declares War on the Blogosphere

November 1, 2007

I’m actually inclined to wonder, just a little, whether Facebook is doing this because allowing fake names might decrease the monetization value of user data. Honestly, what’s the big deal? It’s just entertainment – a game for grownups. And it’s starting to feel like the worm is turning, just a little, on Facebook.

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Mr. Harper, Canada’s Calling and it Wants its Do-Not-Call List Back

October 31, 2007

This would be much more compelling if Canadians actually knew how toothless their legislation is going to be. Boy, when Canadians discover they’re not getting what they think they’re getting …

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“It Used To Be, You Didn’t Want Your Website To Be That Good”

October 31, 2007

I hate it when things that in the U.S. “used to be” still (for the most part) are, on our side of the border.

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Justices Stay Execution & Mukasey on Torture

October 30, 2007

Viewed from a distance, this: Justices Stay Execution, a Signal to Lower Courts “The issue in that case is not the constitutionality of lethal injection as such, but rather a more procedural question: how judges should evaluate claims that the particular combination of drugs used to bring about death causes suffering that amounts to cruel […]

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