May 03, 2006

Dinner Theater

Why Stephen Colbert didn't bomb in D.C. ▪ More »

Media continue to ignore Boston Globe reporter's exposés on Bush's "signing statements"

"President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office..."

Power to the Pumpers

Do gas boycotts really work? ▪ More »

Priority Cell Phones for First Responders

Verizon has announced that is has activated the Access Overload Control (ACCOLC) system, allowing some cell phones to have priority access to the network, even when the network is overloaded.

April 26, 2006

Pope considers small change in contraceptive policy

"Pope Benedict XVI has asked a team of experts to prepare a statement on the use of condoms by married people who carry infectious viruses such as HIV." ▪ More »

The Security Risk of Special Cases

"The meta-point is that exceptions to security are themselves security vulnerabilities."

I Smell Gas

A subject that makes congressmen stupid. ▪ More »

.NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP1 Beta is available

here is a raw list of features and bug fixes. [via]

Analyze .NET assemblies using NDepend

analyzes .NET assemblies and generates reports on design quality metrics, along with warnings and diagrams [via]

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Who doesn't remember the funky pinball number count?

Visua Studio 2005 Express editions are permanently free

5 million downloads can't be wrong.

April 25, 2006

In Praise of Loopholes

A look at some of our most celebrated loophole practitioners, and their tales. [via]

The Fox News Effect: Media Bias and Voting

"Does media bias affect voting? We address this question by looking at the entry of Fox News in cable markets and its impact on voting... Our estimates imply that Fox News convinced 3 to 8 percent of its viewers to vote Republican." [via]

The Past is Over

Bush impersonator reads speeches written by little kids [via]

The Worst President in History?

One of America's leading historians assesses George W. Bush ▪ More »

Identity-Theft Disclosure Laws

we can at least hope that Congress will refrain from passing bad bills that override good state laws -- and helping criminals in the process.

StateMaster

A database of statistics on the US States. [via; see also]

April 14, 2006

The benefits, and costs, of anxiety

"Enter William Lee at the Institute of Psychiatry and colleagues, who used data from the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development (MRC NSHD) to find out whether anxious people have fewer fatal accidents." [via]

The benefits, and costs, of anxiety

"Enter William Lee at the Institute of Psychiatry and colleagues, who used data from the Medical Research Council National Survey of Health and Development (MRC NSHD) to find out whether anxious people have fewer fatal accidents." [via]

Unintended Consequences: Seven Years Under the DMCA

"If you want to understand what the DMCA has done to America and what it's likely to do the rest of the world as they get their own versions, read this now" [via] ▪ More »