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Thinking Outside The World

The New York Times has a great article on airport security follies. I rather enjoyed this comment
Ninety years ago, H.L. Mencken made this observation: “Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to [...]

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Why Pigs Have Wings

There are only 10 days to the next release of Ubuntu Linux, version 7.10 (for 2007-Oct; Wikipedia article here).
Much as I would like to think that Linux will, in the end, be to Microsoft Windows what Microsoft was to IBM, that seems a bit of a stretch at the moment. Linux was recently reported to [...]

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