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Last day to order your XO Laptop!

I’ve been playing around with my XO laptop (you can read all about it over at hackszine) and it’s an extremely cool, super-hackable device. You should order one. The price is right: for $400, you: Donate a laptop to a … Continue reading

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Bush’s October Surprise–Voter Intimidation?

Can this be for real? The BBC is reporting that the Bush campaign has compiled “a 15-page so-called ‘caging list’ [that] lists 1,886 names and addresses of voters in predominantly black and traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville, Florida”, apparently for … Continue reading

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It’s Not as Bad as it Appears

I’m much less worried about an independent Nader than I am a Green Nader. Nader + the Green Party offered the possibility that the Green Party could grow substantially–that was the payoff, at least in theory. He’s not offering that … Continue reading

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Buttle, Tuttle? Who’s minding this store?

Mark Frauenfelder: Why can’t Homeland Security tell the difference between Al Quaeda and my six-year-old daughter?

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An Emergency Letter

Jerry Rubin: An Emergency Letter to My Brothers and Sisters in the Movement: “From the Bay Area to New York, we are suffering the greatest depression in our history. People are taking bitterness in their coffee instead of sugar.”

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Where Do You Drink?

Werner Vogels: “And now for something completely different: The Social Issues Research Center in Oxford, UK has released an absolutely marvelous online guide to British pub etiquette…”

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Arnold is Coming

Volker Weber has the link… Probably work safe, as long as you don’t crank the volume up to eleven.

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Whole Lotta Mapping

Tim Bray points to a thread on SkyScraper City with a whole mess of transit maps. I first noticed SkyScraper City in my referer logs a while back when one of their threads linked to one of the pictures from … Continue reading

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Chewing gum prohibition to end soon

The Globe and Mail: “People in Singapore will soon be allowed to buy long-banned chewing gum – but only from pharmacies…”

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