High Wire Act

December 24, 2007

No, it can’t be, but it is. From Ethan: this reminds me of the tree fighting scenes in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

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“Free Online Malware Scanner”

December 22, 2007

For the second time in as many months, Safari has been hijacked by a process that has minimized the main window and presented a fake dialog box inviting me to choose to visit a site to get a free “malware scanner”. The first hijack occurred when I clicked an innocent link at The Huffington Post, […]

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“The arguments of those opposing copyright reform are unacceptable”

December 22, 2007

β€œThe person who creates should work for free. That’s fundamentally what these people are arguing,” he said. Oh, well done!

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The Four Horsemen

December 22, 2007

Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens, oh my.

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ThinkSecret: Free Speech or Not So Much

December 21, 2007

The one spin I haven’t seen on this development is that founder Nick Ciarelli might just have had a golden opportunity to walk away with a whackload of cash, in exchange for getting out of Steve Jobs’ hair. Much has been made of ThinkSecret being ‘forced’ to close, ‘bad precedents’ and the like, but I […]

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“A manipulator with a mean streak and little knowledge of the world”

December 21, 2007

How surprising to read Noonan describing Huckabee this way. But I keep reading people “in the know” describing Giuliani in more or less the same way.

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A Tale of Two Cities

December 21, 2007

What a jarring experience to read these two articles on the same day.

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“Kerrey Apologizes to Obama Over Remark”

December 20, 2007

I’m sure he meant it “figuratively, not literally”.

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“He was speaking figuratively, not literally”

December 20, 2007

Why is it that only politicians politicians and poets get to speak “figuratively, not literally”? I’d love to have someone trailing behind me, making sure that people understood that I was speaking “figuratively, not literally”. Can we vote “figuratively, not literally”?

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“The Generational Divide in Copyright Morality”

December 20, 2007

A fascinating post by David Pogue.

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“Oh, keep your hairpiece on”

December 20, 2007

Laughed, I nearly died.

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Letter to a Rage-filled Anti-Semite

December 20, 2007

Brian Lowry’s open letter to Drudge readers in Variety is one way to handle it.

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