Cloudy Thinking

Andrew LaVallee writes in The Wall Street Journal about the virtual fashion phenomena that’s taking place in the Second Life online game.

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David Broder writes in The Washington Post about Independence Days.

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George Weigel writes in The Los Angeles Times The Pope Was Right.

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Yesterday I joined the new Zoomr photo sharing site. It’s worth your time to sign up — it could become the “next Flickr.”

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Om Malik writes at GigaOm about new hybrid settop boxes that blend direct broadcast satellite (DBS), IPTV delivered via DSL and have a personal video recorder a la TiVo.

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Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd and Chairperson Patricia Dunn in their clumsy and illegal handling of boardroom leaks have failed the corporate IQ (and integrity) test. How sad.

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Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop Per Child project is the single most exciting technology development I’m aware of.

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VC Fred Wilson experimented with podcasting with his family, but has now thrown in the towel.

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This snippet from a shop at home TV show (for knives and swords) is priceless.

Sam Harris, author of The End of Faith, writes in The Los Angeles Times about how “Head-in-the-Sand Liberals” do not understand that Western civilization is at risk from Muslim extremists.

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During August, 2006 air travel between Britian and the USA was disrupted because of allegations of a terror plot involving common houshold liquids. It may have been much ado about not very much.

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[Update: SOLD as of October 7, 2006] A friend is selling his Ducati ST2. It’s one great machine.

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