http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/opinion/04herbert.html

On Thursday, the Joint Economic Committee, chaired by Senator Chuck Schumer, conducted a public examination of the costs of the war. The witnesses included the Nobel Prize-winning economist, Joseph Stiglitz (who believes the overall costs of the war, not just the cost to taxpayers, will ( Read more... )

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Check here whether your desired personalized license plate is available!

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Metaphors for online interaction are popular these days, and there's a reason for that. So let's explore some of the history, analogies and fallacies of online interaction.

The metaphor hype quite possibly all started when ESR wrote his landmark essay The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Which by the way, I never really grasped. He compares "building a ( Read more... )

And the list of items for which you must show ID to buy them gets longer:

• Sudafed nasal decongestant
  
• Spray paint
  
• and today: Compressed air (I use those cans to clean a computer case)
  

I guess this "old geezer" can use this information to figure what the kids are doing these days to get high. Never knew you could sniff compressed air...

An (English) interview with Geert Wilders, the Dutch idiot politician who is making an anti-Koran movie:

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... you save every single creditcard / debitcard receipt that any store ever gives you over the past 7 years. I just weighed them, it's 5 lbs of receipts, neatly stacked it's about 4 ft of folded receipts, and when they're freed, it's about 3 HEB baggies full. Tomorrow they're going into the secure shredder at work.

4 ft of receipts:

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