After September 11th, one noted philospher observed this. bq. Many families have been devastated tonight. This just is not right. They did not deserve to die. If someone did this to get back at Bush, then they did so by killing thousands of people who did not vote for him! Boston, New York, DC, and [...]
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Sum of the Whole
“It’s obvious that EBay depends on its users — they provide both the reason to be there, and the mechanisms for evaluating what they bring to the table. At Amazon, it’s a bit less clear. Most of the content comes from suppliers. But user-contributed reviews (as well as Amazon’s own marketplace) clearly are a HUGE [...]
Pax is Back
Everyone’s favorite Baghdad blogger, Salam Pax, has “returned(A Post From Baghdad Station)”:http://www.dear_raed.blogspot.com/2003_05_01_dear_raed_archive.html#200255082 to the Blogosphere. Hopefully, there will soon be as many (or more) Iraqis joining him as can be found among the “Persians(Persian Blogger Chronicles)”:http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/persianblogger/.
Tommy, King of the Franks
!http://www.thirdsuperpower.com/previously/images/twofranks.jpg(Charlemagne reincarnated as Tommy Franks)! If you caught “Mike Farrell(Anti-War Groups Struggle to Refocus)”:http://frontpagemag.com/articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=7600 on Hannity & Colmes last night, he had some interesting things to say. Amidst the complaints about the other side engaging in gloating, he mentioned something chilling. He believes that George W. Bush was working “from a plan written years ago.” [...]
Sina Motallebi makes the BBC
While many of us would like to see the case of “Sina Motallebi(Sina Motallebi update)”:http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2003_05.html#003703 getting more mainstream attention, stories like this “Bloggers unite to fight(Bloggers unite to figh)”:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2992401.stm are helpful, hopefully.