2003–2004
971 posts
2004 697
December 2004
- Amazon: the service just gets better
- Credit card fraud: more on my most recent experience
- Bush: into the abyss
- Lessons from the airtravel debacle of Christmas 2004: the risks of efficiency
- Be the Best You can Be: endocannabinoids, Buspar and behavioral disorders
- Miracle surgery for migraine?
- Dyer on the humanization of Hitler
- Credit Card Fraud: Take Two
- On the evolution of reality
- Doctorow on Digital Rights Management
- Dyer article on the Cumbre Vieja tsunami-to-come
- Gwynne Dyer Returns
- Why have all the top-rated cordless phones been discontinued?
- A meteor to track - Torino Level 4
- IE crashing -- is it the google toolbar? My, how strange would that be ...
- Creating the happy life - in retrospect
- Driving merrily over the cliff of economics
- Torture is us. Not that anyone cares ...
- Why should stress accelerate aging?
- GWB's kinda guy
- Laptops become a commodity
- Boing Boing: Engineered spider web
- Coin toss bias
- Brave new minds
- Russ Feingold is running for 2008 (?)
- The vile prejudice against conservatives in academia
- Don Lancaster: The Case Against Patents
- The Economist helps with the problem of raising children of the wealthy
- The British Medical Journal publishes a unique case report
- Disappearing in the sand
- Editing -- the secret to a happy life ...
- Satire is impossible in the Rovian Regime: The Onion can't get ahead of the Swift Boat curve.
- Who will replace Donald Rumsfeld?
- Winner -- best in 'Scared of Santa' series
- The evolutonary biology of acne
- John Glenn on the limited life expectancy of earth-based civilization
- The Mozilla firefox ad -- PDF where names are readable
- There was no nanny
- Shock. Shock. Unregulated herbal remedies maybe not utterly safe
- Round 174 in the Great Game goes to ...
- Military interrogation techniques repel even the CIA
- Google vs. Amazon: The battle of the library
- Desperately sniffing around the world
- Influenza: a rather nice and sober summary
- 19th century Minnesota winters: brutal
- Ideas of the year - NYT Magazine review
- Europe's contribution to the war on terror: dollars for heroin
- Cheating in sports ...
- CIA is corrupt and compromised by neocons? So what?
- Rice Park rink -- refrigerated outdoor skating in Saint Paul
- Why did Kerick withdraw?
- Why is Japan always the future?
- Walter Mossberg is fed up with Windows XP, he prefers OS X
- PalmInfocenter.com: An open letter to the Linux community from PalmSource
- Our glorious leader
- Rat brain flies plane -- organic neural network
- God created the parathyroid to challenge our faith
- Sequencing dinosaur DNA -- the jungle fowl
- How to talk usefully about the funding of public education
- The Harrow Group: Futurist newsletters
- Soviet america. Four years ago, I wouldn't have given this much credence ...
- The self-service economy - your home as a warehouse
- Global warming summary and recommendations
- More in the solar system than thought possible?
- Cruise ship nursing homes?
- On the external representation of information in string theory
- The NYT publishes an extensive review of string theory
- The social security crisis: it's political, not fiscal
- Multiple sclerosis, birth month and sun exposure
- Research anyone, anywhere
- Memory loss: middle-aged and more
- 21st century propaganda: outsourced, distributed, malignant
- Killing the leaders: an age-old ploy
- Preserving damaged spinal nerves with polyethylene glycol
- Real news: oil prices fall
- Target zaps the Salvation Army: was it the lawyers, or the "moral values"?
- Exhibit A in the judgment of humanity
- China funds US housing bubble
- What a ridiculous nation: shock and steroids
- Bono plans lifelong poverty fight
- When I was young, the Internet was open to all
- Bush believes in the purity of the markets?
- A raging cry against war
- Sinclair Lewis redux
- On the tyranny of genetics
- A dog dies
- The new order: do not offend the GOP
- How do the anti-evolutionists handle this?
- Torture at Guantanamo bay
- Yes, the blue states give money, the reds receive
November 2004
- The arrested president
- More from Stephen Roach of Morgan Stanley
- Epidemic! Epidemic!
- Arctic organic sediments and an update on climate science
- DeLong's predictions on near term economic outcomes
- Visit Montreal - virtually
- How did Greek status look -- to the Greeks?
- Fewer remained in Fallujah that most had estimated
- The worst job in the world
- Best neighborhoods and public spaces in north america ...
- Challenges in evolution: male homosexuality
- Electronic bill payment -- two routes, different motives
- Segregation today, segregation forever?
- Conflagration -- the european invasion of the americas
- Electronic Arts: The Inside Story
- The first to survive rabies
- Minneapolis church makes international news -- for its lefty politics
- Kristof on the 'Left Behind' books
- Obesity doesn't compare to smoking
- Gmail - has a handle on spam
- BBC portrayal of Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment
- Phone Phishing (spam): coming soon to the elderly and the vulnerable
- Armageddon? No, more like stagflation
- Toffler: of Future Shock fame
- Body and Soul: Hunger in Iraq
- The better species
- Chronic pain and brain injury
- America -- a broken democracy?
- Puzzles in behavior: why would anyone work for Electronic Arts?
- What did Arafat die of?
- Planet of the microbes
- Many more details emerge on the Fallujah insurrenction
- African american SAT scores
- Melee in Chile: Bush 1 World 0
- States Rights -- NYT Magazine
- The fact that will not speak its name
- Power corrupts - Republicans want access to tax returns
- The ghosts of the children
- What does the "missing link" mean?
- Degenerative democracy
- Irelands smoking ban closing pubs ...
- Passive-aggressive behavior in the NYT
- Paying for intellectual work
- Beyond mockery
- Fighting science: evolution and education
- Goss and the CIA
- How Kerry would have fought the war on terror
- Voted for Bush? Then pray for a merciful God.
- Understanding Bush II: Dobson and homophobic america
- Christian Exodus: The moral values agenda and states rights
- Rolling Stone interviews seven very unhappy retired generals ...
- Learning to ride for free
- NYT tackles some of the big pharma questions
- Insider trading in the US Senate
- The end of the PAP smear?
- A Feed aggregator for medical topics - Reider and Ross
- Floresians: Homo erectus or homo sapiens?
- Life extension through supplements -- not likely to work
- Pfizer/Bextra joins Merck/Vioxx on the COX2 firing line
- Microsoft unchained
- The countries I've visited
- God has blessed the US
- Feeling bitter?
- A calm and well reasoned analysis of the vote
- Another electoral college vote by county map
- The Economist on the 100,000 dead Iraqis
- Are You Living in a Computer Simulation?
- Cluelessness in America
- The nuclear weapons black market
- Is America in another great awakening?
- National Museum Of The Middle Class
- Life in the church of Bush -- a guide to rationalists
- Secondary outsourcing - in Doonesbury
- So now Maureen Dowd gets religion?
- What it means to be a souther american christian conservative (SACC)
- An embedded reporters summary of the Iraq situation
- Machine Error Gives Bush Extra Ohio Votes
- The endtime - part VXIXX
- Jane Smiley on the nature of Bush's victory
- Udell's Flash Demo of the electoral college flows over 60 years
- Maureen Dowd gets serious
- Robert Cringely on the futility of fighting fire with fire alone
- How bad is the outcome of this election?
- Salon.com | Bush, God and the Democrats
- Presidential votes -- a graphical representation of american politics
- Yes, it's bad
- America: Divided by religion
- The 92% factor
- The evolution of the vertebrate (human) eye
- The New York Times > Opinion > Bob Herbert: Days of Shame
October 2004
- I pledge allegiance to .... Herr Bush?
- Bush did wear something
- Republicans for Kerry 2004
- Kay (the weapons inspector guy) on Qa Qaa (via CNN)
- Butterfly ballots -- what a nation
- Yoo-hoo, don't forget me ...
- The Lancet: 100,000 dead Iraqi civilians
- Wag the Dog
- With great anguish and pained reluctance, The Economist endorses John Kerry for President
- A completely unverified soldier's tale -- as related to an airline passenger
- George Bush, American Calvinist. It's as bad as Susskind said.
- Abu Ghraib -- lies and more lies
- A military theorist despairs at the conduct of the war on terror
- Red Sox win, 'Hobbit' joins human family tree
- The quantum gates have opened. Kerry can win.
- Role playing games and robotic simulants -- the future of games and the evolution of mind
- President Cheney: Reason enough to vote for Kerrey
- myBallot.net: online ballot representation from Minnesota e-democracy
- TIME.com: The Hunt for Osama bin Laden - November 2001
- GOP Dirty Tricks in Ohio and Florida
- Iraq is a festering pile of advanced explosive devices
- The editorial endorsements -- enough to shift the tide?
- The GOP is not the Nazi party ...
- Ralph Nader supports vote swapping - a way out?
- Should Rove be scared?
- Escape from Tora Bora: how bin Laden got away
- Bush charity? Maybe. Or was it mandated community service?
- The secret government
- WolfpacksforTruth.org: The Real Story on George Bush's "Wolves" Commercial
- Shrillblog: Conservative Daniel Drezner Is Shrill
- Shatner bids for seat on Virgin sub-orbiter
- Osama's Islamism and Saddam's Baathism are somewhat alike
- Cognitive Dissonance and the electorate
- Bush: they hate us for our freedoms
- Open Source Jihad
- The opportunity cost of invading Iraq
- Signs of the end-time
- The astonishing number: 92%
- The Herald-Palladium's scoop on the Tenet speech: demographics, HIV and CIA failures
- James Oberg on NASA and errors
- Foreign Affairs is shrill -- and against Bush
- Another Republican (former Senator) now voting for Kerry
- How can Boston fans take this punishment?
- Smallpox and Influenza
- Triumph of The Will -- The Bush Story
- Bush suppresses CIA 9/11 report
- Slate Election Scorecard Oct 19
- Yes Bush Can! Take the Patriot Pledge!
- Billions misplaced in Iraq
- Bush - American Calvinist -- more quotes from the NYT Magazine Suskind article
- A serious discussion of taxing only "sales" (value added taxation)
- Flu vaccine shortage: a failure of Republican governance
- Republicans can be the most shrill of all ...
- Among the bad news -- a ray of light
- Slashdot | Data Miners Moving to Offshore Data Havens
- How adolescent and adult brains differ. By Amanda Schaffer
- Cheney threatens to attack the US
- One of the whackier bin Laden/Bush conspiracy theories ...
- Gibson returns to blogging -- and he's not exactly a fan of GWB
- Bush - Nixon Redux
- GOP front destroying democrat voter registration documents?
- Bush Like Me - an anti-Republican puts on wolf's clothing
- Insurgent Alliance Is Fraying In Fallujah (washingtonpost.com)
- Sinclair Broadcast Group Advertisers - Boycott Page
- Is this what Rove means by his "October Surprise"?
- Pre-eclampsia -- tracking down a terrible disorder
- ABC has a spine?
- The perils of living with lackeys
- NPR : Secret Service Cleanses the Disloyal Voter
- Bush and his remote control pod
- Innovators work for free - historically
- Edwards and Cheney -- revealed
- Identification of the 1918 pandemic's lethality factor
- Steroids increase head injury death rate by about 15%
- Author and intelligence specialist on Bush and the misuse and abuse of the CIA
- It's a race
- What went on in Iraq prior to the war - the WMD mystery
- Vote for Change resurrects Neil Young
- Cheney says --- trust Factcheck.com on Halliburton
- The worst intelligence report in US history
- George the Divine - coming soon to a DVD near you
- GBrowser, Google, Microsoft and Netscape Constellation
- Failure in the FBI and Homeland Security -- and another counter-terrorism head quits
- The CIA and the White House -- an uneasy alliance
September 2004
- The state of Iraq -- from a WSJ reporter's personal email
- Iraq is lost
- Is Rove a Satan worshiper?
- The Seattle Times: Editorials & Opinion: Kerry for President
- Sugar in space provides clue to origin of life
- Asking the big questions: Are we alone? What happens to civilizations like our's?
- Organizers Fear Terrorist Attacks On Upcoming Al-Qaeda Convention
- Where were the WMDs? An insider's summary -- relatively objective?
- The state of Iraq -- worse than was ever imagined, and getting worse yet
- Kerry finds his honest voice
- PSA. HRT. SSRIs. Houston, we have a problem.
- The younger George Bush
- Senior US military leaders speak-up: Bush has brought us to unprecedented disaster
- Slate - Does God endorse George Bush?
- Where is George Bush's genius?
- Iraq is not Vietnam....
- Back to Iraq 3.0: It's Worse Than You Think...
- Rumsfeld and Fallujah
- The Shrill Blog: Martin Sieff Scores the Neocons at Zero for Twenty-One
- Fidelity voted against expensing stock options
- The stories not told: Al Qaeda's chemical bombs in Jordan and Pakistan
- America's Problem: The Media?
- Acute Systems Software - TransMac
- Bush - the adult crimes
- GWB - a spoiled brat with substance problems -- and an adult liar
- DeLong's notes on a Richard Clarke speech
- A brave man writing ...
- Could Cheney be LESS competent than Bush?
- Salon.com News | Sen. Graham: Bush covered up Saudi involvement in 9/11
- Bush is caught in the big Lie ...
- Jimmy Carter rips Zell Miller - up and down
- Who is/are Putin's "They"?
- Kerry in Vietnam, Bush debauches in Alabama
- Google Search: "zell miller" "barking mad"
August 2004
- Iowa Republicans are changing the name of their party to 'Hezbollah'
- The demise of the Falluja Brigade and the rise of Zarqawi
- The Fall of Robert Dole (from a Nixon Republican)
- Backstory to the latest scandal: Salon.com | The new Pentagon papers
- The National Scream: 9/2/04 @ 9:58 pm ET - "Fuggedaboutit".
- Inside scoop on the Rumsfeld/Feith/Israel spy scandal
- The PRKA Manifesto -- yet another extremist group
- Eliot Spitzer wins again
- Yet Another Rlfeport Supports Kerry's Account
- US bounty hunter had contact with Rumsfeld's office
- SVBT: O'Neill changes yet another story
- The "Christmas Eve" attack on Kerry is cheap and almost certainly wrong. By Fred Kaplan
- Rove's fingerprints
- The New York Times > Washington > Campaign 2004 > TV Watch: On Cable, a Fog of Words About Kerry's War Record
- More Bush coordination with SBVT
- BBC NEWS | Americas | Abu Ghraib report attacks 'chaos'
- Back to Iraq 3.0: Inside the Imam Ali Shrine
- What Bush's donors got in return
- Then and now: changes in the swift boat stories ...
- My Kerry Volunteer page ...
- Kerry Attacks: His Internet Ad
- Ivins on Thucydides
- Garrison Keillor: What Democrats Believe
- Rove , Bush and the Swift Boat Veterans. Goering Lives.
- The staggering incompetence of Homeland Security
- IHT: The long reach of Leo Strauss (Pfaff 2003)
- Washington Post exposes the true face of Bush ally
- Kerry tackles the "Swift Boat Veterans for Truth".
- Weapon O'Neill: The long hand of Charles Colson attacks John Kerry
- A succinct summary of GWB's greatest Iraq failings
- The Brave New World of Psychic Reengineering and Robotic Monkeys: Be Afraid?
- The Pakistan - Jihadi story opens up. Phase II of the "War on Terror"?
- Bush's choice to protect the nation: a political ploy
- Teflon, Dupont and PFOA
- When genocide is difficult to prevent ...
- Bush and the wolf
- FTC National Resource for ID Theft: your account at eBay has been suspended
- Email is truly broken - so don't be upset if I don't reply!
- Springsteen - the intellectual
- Life in 1954 -- a time traveler's tale
- Thirty-eight rhetorical tricks, with the methods of overcoming them
- The new, crazy, stock market
- Minneapolis is America's most literate city?!
- Scenice Byways - America and MN
- Will McCain turn on Bush? The right may have gone too far ... again.
- So what happened when the marines invaded Fallujah? And then withdrew?
- Kaplan on the old data alert: a reasoned condemnation
- When a black hole burps ...
- Lessons on the slippery nature of intelligence information: WMDs, Iraq and yellowcake uranium
- Our latest terror alert -- based on 2-3 year old research?
- The credit reporting industry: dysfunctional and without hope
- Billions of our dollars lost to fraud in the CPA (Iraq)
July 2004
- The economics of mercenaries: the cost of war is rising
- How to destroy a nation: assasinate the intelligentsia
- Dispatches From Fallujah - mercenaries and soldiers
- Dispatches From Fallujah - a series to read
- Dept of Homeland Security protects Gates "gifts" to government
- Points to the New Republic - they called the July surprise
- Stalemate in Anbar -- waiting for the order to withdraw ... or to partition
- Don Walters: the unknown hero of the Private Lynch story
- Why the French are skinnier ...
- Electoral fraud in America -- it works just like buying elections
- The FBI running amok ...
- The prison nation -- one nation under bars.
- Playing the hand you've been dealt - the story of a cancer experimentalist
- BBC Tour de France tactics guide
- Richard Clarke: what we should do to stop the next set of attacks
- Enhanced luggage
- Faughnan defends Bush
- Terror and the fear of swarthy men
- Anyone remember anthrax?
- Warren Buffett on the Stock Market: The best short summary on the market?
- JBL - Home Audio - new TOUR travel speakers
- The official site: best guide to the race?
- The strength of postal ... and CSC
- Osama's candidate: the movie version
- Team Postal: a different view
- The 9/11 commission report: the interesting parts and the assault on Iran
- Korean: Meat Pancakes (Gogi-Jun)
- I'm not as extreme as I thought I was
- Bush's crusaders: the cancer he can't oppose
- Time to stop buying Slim-Fast products ....
- Hersh makes accusations of the most extreme degree
- Bush and the gay marriage ban: crushed in the senate
- How to join the dept of homeland security watch list
- Rankism -- not so silly?
- A changing dynamic in Iraq
- I'm Osama bin Laden and I approve this message ...
- Informed Comment : 07/01/2004 - 07/31/2004
- A new world of vendor lock-in: encryption authentication of batteries
- Ashcroft delcares translator's expose to be a "state secret" ...
- The July surprise: bin Laden on demand?
- Department of Homeland Security: Don't use IE, try another browser
- Blogger tips: too cute, but useful
- Millionaires and Billionaires against Bush
- Building a Militia - in America
- Rumsfeld's Foreign Legion
June 2004
- Kaplan argues against the draft -- on pragmatic grounds
- Tim O'Reilly on open source, economics, and the future of software
- Google Gags the Left, but not the Right
- Gore Attacks from the left: Democracy itself is in grave danger
- Bill Clinton, oh how we miss you ...
- Bush 2004 achievements
- The Bush Terror Report: feeding the ignorant masses
- The New York Times > Washington > U.S. Said to Overstate Value of Guantanamo Detainees
- Why Bush failed in Iraq: Loyalty first
- BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Private craft makes space history
- Bin Laden will seek to keep Bush in power -- probably win a pre-November attack
- The Financial Times gives up on GWB
- The deal Bush made -- with the devil
- The ancestry of Word -- there is no new software ...
- June 19th - celebrating the end of institutional American slavery
- A serious article on where Microsoft is losing ...
- Leadership of the Iraqi terrorists and failure of targeted air strikes (0 for 50)
- Why we can't extend the retirement age ...
- Yeah, it was only a few bad apples ...
- Peak Oil goes mainstream?
- Legalizing Torture: Bush must go
- On dogs and children
- A future John Kerry? A convincing tale from a veteran returned from Iraq
- The making of a non-scandal, Kerry and the intern
- War and youth
- Reining in the Reagan Madness
- The stigma of lung cancer and the nature of human reason
- Dogs again -- not so far behind?
- DeLong on Seymour Hersh's U Chicago speech
- Reagan - Chaunce the gardener
- How Reagan & Gorbachev ended the Cold War
- Antidote to the republican deification of Reagan
- Terraforming - Polynesian style
- Remembering Reagan - as he was
- Apple - AirPort Express - Yes.
- No kidding, GWB may really qualify as a war criminal
- On redistribution
- The Law of Preservation of Quality: The Atlantic and The Economist
- UN Security Council Resolution on Iraq: Yes France, you were right
- Bill Joy: A man after my own heart
- So what happened to journalism in the 90s?
- Corrupt absolutely ...
- Sherron (Enron) Watkins on Bush
- Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men - a lost article from The American Magazine, 1924
- NetGear access point is wide open ...
- Incompetence at the FBI, CIA and ?
- On the nature of warriors and the responsibility of protection
- Structured Procrastination - a 1995 John Perry essay
- Faces of US dead - Iraq War
- Quantum Entanglement: what does it tell about the nature of reality?
- The well oiled white house ...
- The Media Must Be Stopped! We must destroy freedom in order to save it ...
- Chalabi and Iranian codebreaking: old rumors in blogworld
- The Economist isn't doing much better than the NYT
- Abu Ghraib was made in America
- Kerry and policy
- Robert Reich's Reason : A Terse Review
May 2004
- Sad days at the NYT
- Abuse of civilians by occupying forces -- same old, same old
- On the erosion of privacy in the Reign of George the Feckless
- If you know enough, it's not that hard to build a nuclear bomb -- less the fissile material
- A hero for Iraq?
- Rumsfeld and the Chalabi raid
- Zip-Linq cable for CLIE TJ-27 sync and USB charging
- Slaying the digital messen ger...
- Bush and bicycles
- Iran wins the Nobel Prize of Spycraft
- Chalabi -- you can't buy allies like this ...
- Opera and Theater post-Iraq
- In an internet world, it's easy to get sloppy with information
- Implantable RFIDs for nightclub VIPs
- ABCNEWS.com : U.N. Officials Bribed by Saddam?
- What do a Pekingese and Husky have in common? They're both close to wolves.
- macosxhints - How to avoid the new 'Help' URL handler vulnerability
- DeLong's daily torture report
- A bit further down the road ...
- The creator as a careless child ... or a malfunctioning copy machine ..
- United Press International: Army, CIA want torture truths exposed
- Kaplan: the scandal has legs
- IQ and Presidential Preference - an extraordinary correlation
- Conflict Map: Nobel eMuseum
- Hersh: Copper Green -- the special access program that went sour at Al Ghraib
- DeLong: The Reign of George the Feckless
- The Soviets had Pravda, the GOP has it all
- Kaplan too is done with Bush
- The other heroes: those who refuse orders to do evil, those who intervene
- Friedman: Finally gives up on Bush altogether
- Medal winners
- National electronic Library for Health - United Kindgom
- BBC NEWS | Americas | CIA interrogations 'too brutal' -- The Joy of Torture
- Servicing and refurbishing defective complex consumer devices: is it cost-effective any longer?
- Science fiction idea: we all get stupider because ...
- The corporation as psychopath
- The Washington Post digs deep into the CIA and military prisoner facilities.
- Hersh's 2nd article on Al Ghraib
- Al Ghraib: There are heroes still ...
- Lurching towards wisdom: neurodiversity and the morality of abnormality
- Now this may make Rove worry ...
- The Nine Ways of Being an Accessory to Another’s Sin.
- Bush - the analysis
- Send a "Care Package" to any soldier
- The rats are a jumpin'
- A very different take on US reaction to the Abu Ghraib affair
- Graner -- the solder from hell
- The WSJ: an ethics problem of a different order
- NYT interviews a key witness in the Abu Ghraib case
- Bush Asks Congress for Additional War Funding (washingtonpost.com)
- Google is indexing the full content of the scientific literature
- Canopy Economics
- Lord of the Flies at Abu Ghraib
- A War for Us, Fought by Them: Bring back the draft (NYT OpEd)
- The fallen americans: not as much outrage as some would guess?
- Guardian Unlimited | Fundagelism ....
- Sharp Blue: Consilience & The Naturalistic Fallacy
- MSNBC - Rough Justice in Iraq - Janis Karpinski is NOT going quietly
- The Barbara Walters adoption game show
- American Express: Reliable service is hard to provide
- The prisoner affair: The New Yorker (Hersh) provides extensive coverage
- The burning shame of the US media
- Understanding war crimes -- American GIs in Iraq
April 2004
- Defeating the pandemic of online news registration requirements
- Capitalism's challenge: attaching value to public goods
- Pain of America's soldiers: at least five times the published fatality rate
- A conservative brit is fed up with the vacuous grins of GWB
- Bush strategy: abortion access = Democrat = al Qaeda lackey
- Bushworld and America the Arational: Why Bush is likely to win.
- Recruiting for Iraq -- reminescent of a zillion science fiction stories
- ADHD: We don't know how to treat it
- The Vest memo: what's happening in Iraq
- NYT Op-Ed Contributor: The Last Iraqi Insurgency - brutal force or quick exit?
- How common are false convictions?
- The New York Times > Magazine > The healthcare policy issue
- Amazon A9 search engine: The Net is getting less boring - or NOT?
- Baboon cultural transformaton: hope and human evolution
- MujMac - Tatra Mac G4: There are hackers and then the are uber-Hackers.
- TaxCut & (probably) TurboTax: Bad beyond salvation
- The more things change ...
- NYT Op Ed piece: The very late beginning of a focus on the root causes shared by al Qaeda and their Iraqi emulators?
- Notes from the battlefront ...
- Plan B for Iraq | csmonitor.com
- DeLong extends the traditional trade model of comparative advantage to cover outsourcing
- Huffington loves blogs
- Salon is angry ...
- Faughnan-Lagace Herald: RSS Feeds and Bloglines changes the line-up
- An essay on liberalism (American Prospect)
- Brad DeLong: we lack an adequate theory of market failure
- smugmug review: full res image sharing and photo printing
- The Economist is out of love with GWB
- Floor Statement of Sen. Daschle on the Abuse of Government Power
- Fury.com: Google Gmail is real
- Chimps and humans: Gene activity vs. Coding Differences
- DeLong Rethinks Outsourcing
- Deleting time records to reduce overtime pay
- ADHD and TV viewing: Stupid journalism
- Gmail: you can't buy this kind of press ...
- Mobs and their mad cruelty -- but the past is a poor guide
March 2004
- Treating hypochondria with cognitive therapy
- Kristof does his part -- yet another genocide
- Save NPR's Bob Edwards (Morning Edition)
- My hobby site -- 3GB of monthly traffic?!
- Salon.com News | Creepier than Nixon - John Dean on Bush/Cheney
- Should the United Nations run the Internet? | Perspectives | CNET News.com
- What drove Clarke mad: the insane Clinton impeachment
- Star Telegram | 03/28/2004 | Molly Ivins and the Hart-Rudman report of 1/31/2001
- Jared Bernstein & Brad DeLong on "Outsourcing": a dialog with interesting discussions
- How and why the Neocons missed 9/11, and why they may still be clueless
- If Clinton had not been impeached, or if Gore had won ... would 9/11 have been prevented? The conclusion Bush is running from ...
- No, we really can't diagnose abuse by physical exam
- BBC NEWS | Health | Aids risk reduced SIX-FOLD by circumcision?!!
- BBC NEWS | Europe | The EU has a terror plan. Now.
- Clarke Humilitates his interrogators, GWB gets help from Fox/Pravda (WaPo
- Wapo is very confused about Microsoft
- Kaplan on Clarke: it's as bad as it looks
- NOVA | The Elegant Universe -- Online
- Phil Carter has some excellent commentary on Clarke and GWB
- Why your daughters should be roofers -- not architects
- George Bush's Resume
- Speech, Journalism, and American Pravda
- Bush's 9/11 Obsession: It had to be Iraq (washingtonpost.com)
- Worst buying decision this year: TaxCut Deluxe 2003 and the nature of market failures
- U.S. Senator John McCain on the Medicare Drug Benefit Bill: BEFORE the "scandal"
- The Medicare scandal -- is it really so different from the WMD Scandal?
- Rumsfeld, Cheney, Bush and the Iraq Obsession
- Where will high paying jobs be in a globalized world?
- Strategies for teaching reading to the cognitively disabled
- Pakistanis don't approve of Khan and Co's nuclear trade?
- Rumsfeld caught lying
- BBC NEWS | Health | How vCJD proteins trigger disease - deeply weird
- The Center for Public Integrity: Corruption in America
- BBC Iraqi survey: it's good to have data, esp. positive data
- Al Qaeda: retreat is an option for some
- Complex adaptive systems spawn al Qaeda as an agent of progress?
- Better brains born on choline (this is your brain on drugs ..)
- The story of the Bush drug benefit package -- standard operating procedure
- Structural causes of healthcare inflation
- Productivity and Demographics: Was the boom from the boomers?
- Unintended consequences: DVRs & the death of broadcast tv, HDTV and massive hard drives
- The Endocannabanoids - medicine does move on
- MSNBC - Avoiding attacking suspected terrorist mastermind
- Wahhabism and the Saudi Front (NYT Magazine)
- Betting against Bush's America ... Buffet's move.
- Evolution in action: why Theocons need to teach natural selection in the schools
- Kristof: The market failure of CEO Compensation
- How Will the Universe End? - A cosmic detective story about the demise of the world, in three parts. By Jim Holt
- Republican party: anti-gay yes, but also anti-adoption?
- Salon.com | Theocons vs. neocons: The contradictions within the republican party
- Building a better memory
- The power of the internet combined with social networks ... it still stuns me
- And now, unleash the dogs of democracy ...
- Krugman: The corruption of Alan Greenspan
- An end to spam? But not a new idea ...
- Mars probe Opportunity -- plop into a martian swamp?
- Seymour Hersh (New Yorker) The spring offensive for bin Laden, and the nuclear chasm opening up ...
- Stupid journalism:| Breast milk 'does cut heart risk'
- Hyperlexia: an explanation of why we can read? (washingtonpost.com)
February 2004
- Science fights back: Citizens for Science vs. the Discovery Institute
- The Russian nuclear fuel trade
- How GWB boosts manufacturing and overall employment -- the ketchup maneuver
- The Lion King: Being a safe and relatively benevolent carnivore
- Krugman on free trade
- Great NYT Review on Autism
- Dietary supplements stop dementia in beagles? AAAS proceedings
- India and outsourcing: Friedman 1, Kristof 0
- On the brilliance of dogs
- Ralph Nader -- funding by Rove?
- Neo-Feudalism: Return of the Trades
- Tne Malaysian Connection: the diffusion of nuclear weapons (washingtonpost.com)
- Science and the media: brain rot from electric motors?
- The fall of Howard Dean
- Economist.com | The fight against spam - buying a managed reputation
- A star dies long ago and far away ...
- Newsday.com - Study: Pox Vaccine Loses Punch
- War and the survivors - NYT Magazine
- Breast Cancer and Antibiotic use: responsible reporting!
- Frank Rich: My Hero, Janet Jackson (NYT)
- The chemistry and biology of love -- how complex are we? (The Economist)
- Kerry and the babes
- Bush: The Character Issues and the Campaign to Come
- Mob scams 200 million in small charges, shades of Netfill
- MAUREEN DOWD: The Khan Artist (NYT)
- Photonic computing at silicon prices - Intel may have changed the world ...
- Back pain: an untreatable condition? NYT
- KRISTOF: Watching the Jobs Go By - his weakest column in years
- The Pentagon prepares for the climate crash, but there's more fun ahead in the 21st century ...
- Not the Gore you thought he was ...
- Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Powers Of 10 - a tour of the universe
- The usual perfidy, but what's up with the Wall Street Journal?
- Can Bush rely on a 2 month American memory? Krugman on the Bush rewrite of history.
- Corporate maneuvers migrate into Episcopal/Anglican struggles?
- Stephen Wolfram: A New Kind of Science | Online - Staring at the Sun
- Mad Cow Disease is American Now
- Salon.com | Antonin Scalia has no more credibility than the US government
- Kaplan: A half trillion dollar military budget is too much
- Geoghan: capital punishment by the back door
- Ricin and the Post Office
- Kristof joins the ranks of the shrill
- Why does Apple keep releasing Java updates?
- Scandal in LA: Poor Hospitals Deliver Poor Care
- TIME.com: So Much For the WMD: Greed, Corruption and power
- WaPo: Chemical and bioweapon attacks on planes
- Fighting AIDS: Bush is more hat, less cattle
- Georgia Takes on ’Evolution’ - The Decline and Fall of American Education
- Understanding Bush: It's all about faith
January 2004
- Africa: Outsourcing 2008?
- Clear Channel (Republican Radio): Kill all the Bicylists
- Brad DeLong: why the rational middle despises Bush
- Krugman: What's Happening to America?
- Saddam and GWB: a consensual hallucination (NYT, Dowd)
- USATODAY.com - Declining testosterone might put men at risk for Alzheimer's - or NOT
- Alzheimer's excitement: apoE clears key proteins
- What would you do with Microsoft's 10 billion? (a quarter)
- NYT, Tom Friedman: War of Ideas -- Why we must sacrifice American jobs to avert more 911s
- Microsoft protects "open" Office file formats
- John McCain on the Senate Omnibus Bill
- PBS | I, Cringely - On Outsourcing
- Emergent computation -- the thinking world (Nature)
- After Disputes, Congress Passes Spending Plan - McCain's speech
- Boston Globe: Senate Republicans hack democrat's files - violation of the DMCA?
- Britain's dishonor: guilty by statistics
- Poverty in America - NYT Magazine
- U.S. School Segregation Now at '69 Level (washingtonpost.com)
- Give away the software, sell the hardware
- Alsoft - DiskWarrior - when OS X goes really bad
- Mad Cow: Casting light in dark places
- Globalization and the Export of American Labor: Outsourcing non-IT knowledge work -- now it's the lawyers
- Gore on Bush: Orwellian language
- The extraordinarily rapid selection and evolution of the human brain
- O'Neill learns Cheney is the mole -- a great story of the Bush White House
- $1 Billion for Mars, $1.5 billion for marriage.
- The Maher Arar Case: American Disgrace, take II
- NYT: Insurance pays $2000 for smoking cessation advice
- Space Plan Envisions Apollo As Model (washingtonpost.com)
- BBC - US fears of 'dirty bomb' - homeless men with radium pellets
- Nursing Shortage Forces Hospitals to Cope Creatively
- Nicholas Kristof (NYT): The God Gulf - comment - The Yahwites and the Jesites
- Iraq's Arsenal Was Only on Paper (washingtonpost.com)
- Yes, the religious right is winning -- roll over Dawin.
- Ahmanson and Christian Reconstructionism -- Wahaabism for the west
- Salon.com | Joe Conason's Journal - Cockburn on Rupert Murdoch
- Robert Rubin joins the Krugman Coalition: Shrill and Shriller
- Scientist at Work: On Crime as Science (a Neighbor at a Time) - NYT
- News of the Fermi Paradox: Abundant mature galaxies, abundant earth-friendly regions
2003 274
December 2003
- Two weeks to the Mars rover landings ... and fingers are crossed
- BBC NEWS | Americas | US air marshals demand resisted - But what about the armored doors?
- Iraq as the Spanish American War?
- When more is less: Amazon.com
- A positive view of Iraq -- from an independent source
- Humans: Fat by Nature?
- Prewar propaganda: Bush claimed bio and chemical weapons with drone delivery to east coast.
- Alternate universe: Musharaf assasinated, Saddam at large
- Dave Barry on computer security
- States sell voter registration information to marketers
- The Bush Smallpox Scandal
- NYT Science: The differences between a chimpanzee and homo sapiens
- What's the respiratory rate of the universe?
- BW Online | December 8, 2003 | A Guide to Phone Number Portability
- NYT Review: Neuroscience and the nature of humankind
- Bush Government to pass SPAM at will bill
- Globalization and the Export of American Labor: NYT Algonquin Discusssion
- The Political Compass: How do you rank politically?
- Defect rates in American justice: 10-15% in the most severe cases
- Cat lovers and rare beef eaters may be easy prey for automobiles ...
November 2003
- Courage in Saudi Arabia and the next Iraqi Invasion
- Is Saddam smarter than Bush/Rumsfeld?
- Clintonian healthcare reform: two insider perspectives
- The Bush War on Terror: Time to try something different?
- London chemical plot foiled ... how smart is al Qaeda these days?
- Shades of Vietnam: deserting to Canada
- The Arar Case: Ashcroft sends a Canadian for torture in Syria
- NYT: Middle Class Losing Health Insurance
- USATODAY.com - Scientists create a virus that reproduces
- SARS: What happened, anyway?
- The neurobheavioral effects of beta blockers and other medications
- War: It's not inevitable (NYT)
- U.S. Aides Acknowledge String of Missteps With Turkey (NYT)
- Laptops for Less: batteries, accessories, etc. Interesting vendor!
- Don't Buy Belkin Products: Adware in your Hardware
- The secret of great 10th grade school test scores
- No Child Left Behind: The Potemkin Plan for Education
- Staying the course in Iraq - NOT
- The Spam Protection Act of 2004
- NYT Magazine: Disastrous misplanning for Iraq
- Dingell's Hilarious reply to the RNCs attempt to censor the Reagan story
- Controlling the Media: The Republican National Committee flexes muscle
October 2003
- Starving Children in Plain Sight: A letter to the NY Times
- DeLong on Health Care Economic Policy
- Bush Nazi Connection: Irrelevant and distracting
- Tribal engineering in Iraq: NYT
- Cybercrime in Brazil and Beyond: A deeper significance
- Remaking the World: Bush and the Neoconservatives
- BBC NEWS | Technology | IP addresses are set to run out in 2005
- Bush: the clueless president
- It pays to be pretty and telegenic: The stories of Lynch and Johnson
- FOXNews.com - Exclusive Access -- I wonder why?
- Rumsfeld seems unfazed by leaking of his memo ...
- The last days of privacy: CAPPS II
- The US economy could boom again?
- General Boykin: Leading the New Crusade?
- Does a missing posting suggest Apple will deploy a multiuser GUI? (And overturn the computing world?)
- Office of Propaganda active?
- And next ... Iran
- Arnold, California and Disneyland
- Chile study of school vouchers: main effect is to segregate by academic abilities
- Molly Ivins puts it all in one place
- Much Becomes Clear: Archive Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal
- The Femara breast cancer study -- is it really such great news?
- Good news from Iraq: Return of power brightens Iraqis
- Dumbest spam of the day
- The Real Deficit:
- Is Karl Rove an undercover agent for Al Qaeda?
- Bush to axe Rumsfeld?
- Economist.com: Some little told stories on Al Qaeda's moves against worldwide shipping
- Fighting Spam -- yes, it's doable.
- Cringely on privacy and identity theft: Third in a series ...
- Bob Herbert wonders how Bush II could be so bad so fast
- Halifax Nova Scotia hit hard by Hurricane Juan
- More traveler resources: Radar Imaging, FlightTracker, FlightView
- Air Traffic Control System Command Center: Terrific Traveler Resource
- Using intestinal worms to treat inflammatory bowel disease ...
September 2003
- PNAC.info - Exposing the Project for the New American Century
- NYT Magazine: Vegetative states and the nature of consciousness
- What Microsoft worries about: US Govt purchasing decisions mandating reliability and security.
- Productivity and unemployment issues start to go mainstream ...
- Saddam only THOUGHT he had WMDs?
- Bush officials guilty of a federal crime? (Can you say ... impeach ...?)
- No Iraqi WMDs.
- Poverty in America
- The consequences of angering Microsoft ....
- The Bush Administration lies about their Bible studies?
- Brad DeLong: Krugman's essay on income inequality
- Marines in Liberia: 25% got malaria!
- Friedman: Bush war on terrorism is a hobby.
- How to eliminate a species
- Argentina North: The New America
- War in Iraq is hell on headlines .. another story about reporting in Iraq
- Iraq: not going as badly as the media reports?
- Economist survey of Islam... And the salvation is women and children
- Strib Article: Cheney lies about Clinton administration anti-terrorism plans
- The slow motion credit card/check fraud train wreck
- Brad DeLong: The Bush Administration lies --- compulsively?
- The Billionaires enter the campaing to retire GWB
- How and why health care is broken in the US: Boca Raton
- How to learn that your news media parrots the Bush administration
- 87 Billion Apologies - Take your money, Mr. President, but at least say you're sorry. By Michael Kinsley
- Krugman explores the future consequences of the Bush tax cuts
- Paul Krugman, A BuzzFlash Interview
- More on Identity Theft -- Cringely: How to Steal $65 Billion
- Most life on earth lives in the crust and breathes iron?
- Microsoft, file formats, and information rights management ...
- The outsourcing of IT: one story ...
- Canon i960 photo printer
- Fliers to Be Rated for Risk Level (washingtonpost.com)
- Brooks claims the Bushies adapt, but never admit it ...
- Brad DeLong channels Max Sawicky: GWB -- the American Argentinian
- Inflation, Deflation: A door vs a P4
- Karin Spaink - The Fishman Affidavit: Scientology and its methods
- Saudi Arabia: how close to the edge?
- Support Macintouch: use their Amazon referrer
- Disposable email services ... Jetable and Mailinator
- A Better Blogger BlogThis! Button?
- A semi-useful JavaScript reference -- current to about IE 4
- Quotes from the Bush administration: Saddam has weapons of mass destuction.
- 22 months of job losses - a structural change?
- Magical thinking about lie detectors
- Witnesses aren't worth much ...
- When people realize unemployment may be here to stay ...
- Schizophrenia and Bipolar disorder both have shared pathophysiology?
- A Fix for OS X mishandling of SMB shares?
- Credit Card Fraud explodes -- Yawn.
- Occult software parasitizes Microsoft Windows PCs
- House to remove funding for walking and bicycle paths
- Beyond a job-loss recovery -- a job-loss future?
- Rumsfeld may be on the way out?
- The Radical President
- The US Military attacks the Bush administrations handling of Iraq
- The Genetics of IQ: Variance among the non-wealthy?
- A NYT summary of the state of string theory -- explaining the universe
- Microsoft's next step: DRM for Word
- BBC NEWS: Asteroid danger in 2014 downplayed. (Inappropriately?)
- iPod foam earbud covers
- Jimmy Carter on a US North Korean war (USA Today 9/1/03)
- In need of adult supervision -- so what are the ultra-rich doing?
- Rumsfeld and Condi invent an alternative German history
- The unremarked scandal: Bush and the Smallpox program
August 2003
- Liberalism is for sissies
- Web Index for Journalists: NYT Guide to the Net
- Choosing NiMH batteries and rechargers: a great review
- NiMH batteries and the problem with Google
- Juvenile stupidity has a higher cost ...
- Microsoft may have gone a step too far when crushing Burst.com
- iTunes and iPod tips
- Where is Raed: Salam Pax has his home searched
- Mozilla Firebird: A Safari alternative?
- iVolume: set iTunes volume adjust slider
- No Republican Child Left Behind
- Brad DeLong: The IMF Is Unhappy with Bush Fiscal Policies
- Beauty pays off for male college professors
- PocketDock: iPod adapter for 6 pin firewire connector - Apple's Hardware Extensions
- Red Houston: Home of the Republican Stalinists
- GraphicConverter 4.8.1: new crop for photo service feature
- Scanners and OS X: Why things are the way they are
- Molly Ivins on the Wall Street Journal
- Syl Jones writing on Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
- Social Software
- The Retreat from Iraq: USA Today leads the way.
- Was Rove behind the attack on Ambassador Joseph Wilson?
- Safari Quits Unexpectedly
- Rumsfeld's "office of strategic influence" lives on.
- Treating gum disease lowered premature births by 84%?
- Resveratrol (Red Wine), Olive Oil (Favones) -- medicine doesn't get any better than this.
- Faughnan's Notes
- Friedman on Iraq: Failing at the Big One
- Minnesota million dollar homes: Marker for a new aristocracy?
- Safari Slowdown Fix, and other problems
- Franken is Fair and Balanced.
- George Bush: The Economist has buyer's remorse?
- The Alabama monument: Marker for the new Christian Nation?
- Bush/Ashcroft and Civil Rights: A pattern of deception.
- Globalisation: It's working for most -- but not all (The Economist)
- Sobig, Spam, and the Demise of Email ... but there is a fix.
- Duluth Superior Bike Map
- BLOGGER gives Safari a Lo-Fi interface, but at least tech support is eager!
- Health Costs Compared
- Update on addiction from the Director of the NIDA
- The Omni Group - Applications - OmniOutliner - Extras
- Slate: A strange, strange, strange universe
- Keegan on Iraq: Laying the neocon groundwork for more troops?
- MacInTouch Reader Report: Audio Conversion - Digitizing LPs, DAT tapes, others
- Mac OS X speed FAQ
- O'Reilly
- Symantec Security Response - W32.Sobig.F@mm
- Jon Udell: The future of online community
- DEVON Technologies EasyFind for OS X
- Fixing iBook and Mac odd problems -- reseting via OpenFirmware
- Microsoft Weighs Automatic Security Updates as a Default (TechNews.com)
- New Therapies Pose Quandary for Medicare
- Internet Storm Center
- 294871 - Description of the Automatic Updates Feature in Windows
- Selling Gadgets in a Wal-Mart World: Disappearance of "middle class" electronics
- Arms and the Man
- Arms and the Man: The Curse of Africa
- An Industry Trapped by a Theory: Market failure in the power utility world
- De-Long on the trade deficit: US Insurance as a service industry
- We're All on the Grid Together
- Semi-Daily Journal
- Believe It, or Not
- QuickTopic: free bulletin boards (message boards) and collaborative document review groupware
- Singularity Sky: Archive Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal (Fermi's Paradox revisited)
- Australian spy chief agrees, catastrophic attack a certainty - Aug. 13, 2003
- DeLocalizer 1.1 - VersionTracker
- Printing images: aspect ratio problems not just for digital photography!
- Google Web Search Features: The Google calculator
- The 'Zero Dropout' Miracle: Alas! Alack! A Texas Tall Tale
- BBC NEWS | Health | Creatine 'boosts brain power'
- Fair and Balanced: Archive Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal
- MacInTouch Home Page: Apple/Macintosh news, information and analysis
- Apple - Discussions - iPhoto Design Goal: 30,000 photos on a G3
- Human Mental Augmentation: Archive Entry From Brad DeLong's Webjournal
- Al Gore's August speech: A huge and terrible mess (via Salon)
- Depiction of Threat Outgrew Supporting Evidence (washingtonpost.com)
- The creation of religion and Krakauer on Mormon Fundamentalism
- TinyURL.com - create short URLs to send in messages.
- BLOGGER - Talk To Us - Feedback
- Video Analog to Digital External converters
- AirPort Extreme Base Station: How to Reset
- Ars Technica: Mac.Ars
- StickyBrain Product Info: OS X info management
- The Tech Report - Five power supplies compared
- Windows 2000 SP4 Support Tools
- AppleScript/AppleWorks Tutorial
- TypePad Feature List
- Wired News: The Case for Terrorism Futures
- Spam fighting: authentication of servers
- Yahoo! Groups : graphicconverter forum Messages : SmarCrop Proposal
- John's Digital Photography Page - things to add
- The Onion | Gigli Focus Groups Demand New Ending In Which Both Affleck And Lopez Die
- Weapons of Mass Confusion
- Still Life: photo to movie utility for OS X
- Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: PodWorks
- Grabbing the Nettle
- iPhoto - Feedback/complaint: slow cropping work, speeding up cropping for printing
- O'Reilly Network: iPod Battery life
- Apple - Discussions - slideshow can't locate itunes 3.0
- Apple - Discussions - merging iphoto libraries
- QPict Media Organizer
- iPhoto database browser: ImageInAHurry
- Ecamm Network- Video Conference with iChat AV and a USB Webcam
July 2003
- BLOGGER - widget for Safari and other browsers
- PowerBook and iBook: Resetting Power Management Unit (PMU)
- AllMac.com/1-800-We-Fix-Macs/Repairs/Upgrades/Specials/Sales/Parts
- Google Search: "DHCP lease" 0.0.0.0 (AirPort router)
- Windows 2000 SP4 Support Tools
- DVDRHelp.com / VCDHelp.com
- circuitcity.com - MAGNAVOX MRD250S - Magnavox 5-Disc DVD Digital Surround Sound Home Theater System
- Google Toolbar 2.0 Beta: The Next Big Thing
- Robotic Nation, by Marshall Brain
- 102878 - Information on Browser Operation
- 188305 - Troubleshooting the Microsoft Computer Browser Service
- Google Search: site:support.microsoft.com "master browser" election registry
- ZDTips, Compiled by Eric Halingstad
- MAC OSX 10.2 Windows Sharing - Diagnostics and Background
- macosxhints - Force Server to win the Windows browser election
- Preferred Master Browser
- 314067 - How to Troubleshoot TCP/IP Connectivity with Windows XP
- 102908 - How to Troubleshoot TCP/IP Connectivity with Windows 2000 or Windows NT
- 137984 - TCP Connection States and Netstat Output
- Photo to Movie
- Customize Outlook: Command Line switches
- Galerie
- Findley Designs - iPod Access 2.0 - another iPOd extractor
- thelittleappfactory.com
- Monkeybread Software - Freeware - Combine PDFs 1.0
- macosxhints - Printing to Windows shared printers in 10.2
- Point-to-Point Networking
- Early Voices: The Leap to Language
- The first post (updated 9/21/06)