By Cory Doctorow at 11:02 pm Wednesday, Sep 12
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Welcome, Wired News readers! Leander Kahney quoted BoingBoing and linked back here in a story on successful indie Web coverage of the Current Situation.
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By Cory Doctorow at 9:40 pm Wednesday, Sep 12
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Dumbass editorial from ZDNet Australia on the "hidden" costs of PDAs: you have to buy software for them, you have to teach people how to use them, and you have to upgrade them. Soo-prise, soo-prise, soo-prise.
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By Cory Doctorow at 9:03 pm Wednesday, Sep 12
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Why the Bombings Mean That We Must Support My Politics: Bang-on mock-editorial about the forthcoming tide of self-serving chest-thumping over the Current Events.
Many people will use this terrible tragedy as an excuse to put through a political agenda other than my own. This tawdry abuse of human suffering for political gain sickens me to the core of my being. Those people who have different political views from me ought to be ashamed of themselves for thinking of cheap partisan point-scoring at a time like this. In any case, what this tragedy really shows us is that, so far from putting into practice political views other than my own, it is precisely my political agenda which ought to be advanced.
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Thanks, Fred!)
By Cory Doctorow at 9:00 pm Wednesday, Sep 12
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Alleged -- but jaw-dropping -- sat photo of Manhattan, with what appears to be artificial color. Is this real?
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Thanks, Mark!)
By Cory Doctorow at 8:57 pm Wednesday, Sep 12
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Scary data-terror: a recent Popular Mechanics cover story explains how to build an EMP bomb for $400 that will toast PDAs, PCs, and every other electronic device we rely on.
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Thanks, Chris!)
By Cory Doctorow at 8:42 am Wednesday, Sep 12
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eBay pulls WTC/Pentagon-related auctions, from ghoulish bits of salvaged wreckage to legit memoribilia whose posting predates the Current Situation.
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By Cory Doctorow at 8:37 am Wednesday, Sep 12
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Jason Kottke's posted a lengthy and excellent list of first-person accounts, personal photos, and other noteworthy bitzenpieces about the Current Situation. The news coverage thus far has been heavily skewed to talking heads, while the Internet has overflowed with promiscommunicating New Yorkers and DCites, telling the
real story.
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By Cory Doctorow at 8:31 am Wednesday, Sep 12
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Blogger's automatic index of blog entries mentioning the Current Situation.
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via MeFi)
By Cory Doctorow at 8:19 am Wednesday, Sep 12
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ASCII is the new PDF! Plain text -- in email, documents, and interchange -- is the future of computing. Formatted text is printer-centric, and in a network world, who needs a printer? Good Easy is a Mac OS 9 replacement that creates en entire productivity suite around plain old text.
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By Cory Doctorow at 8:00 am Wednesday, Sep 12
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Eric Raymond (Open Source advocate, science fiction fan, liberatarian, gun nut) weighs in on the tragedy, with a note that starts well enough, ends well enough, but in the middle contains an argument for arming airline passengers so they can defend themselves against terrorists.
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Thanks, Joey!)
