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• things that are nice …

  July 10, 2008 in writing

  1. finishing novels 2. a fine scotch to celebrate finishing novels

• why identi.ca matters

  July 8, 2008 in misc, mobile, technology, web

  Evan just launched an open source twitterish thing called identi.ca. He’s got tons of traction in a few short days (that surely have been long for Evan and the rest of the crack …

• training manuals

  July 2, 2008 in politics

  From NY Times: The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep …

• what are you worth?

  June 29, 2008 in politics

  I’ve been thinking a fair bit lately about the disconnect between the “wealth” of the West in the past 30 or 40 years, and actual “reality.” I argued here that our wealth is a …

• Rogers iphone response

  June 28, 2008 in technology

  I sent Rogers customer service the following email:Re: http://www.rogers.com/web/content/wireless-products/iphone_voice_data_packages you must be joking? those rates are terrible. why does canada have the worst data plans in the world? you”ve just killed the iphone in canada, congrats. And they responded …