March 2009
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Panel recommends ending tenure at Kentucky's... →
What a manifestly stupid thing to do.
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“Ironically, the billions of dollars we’ve spent on youth ministers,...”
– Michael Spencer, writing in the Christian Science Monitor, on the coming evangelical collapse.
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“The issue is not saving newspapers. The issue is, among other things, seeing...”
– Boing Boing guest blogger Dan Gillmor writing in Saving Newspapers, Part MMIX: Collude and Conspire. Here’s some cold water for the increasingly hysterical “save our newspapers!!!1” crowd. They’re not going to get saved.
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Robot Programmed to Love Traps Woman in Lab, Hugs... →
Basically the headline says it all. It won’t be Terminators that take us down — just out-of-control robots intent on hugging.
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“There is a lot of talk nowadays about what will replace the dinosaur that is the...”
– The Wire’s David Simon, writing in his article In Baltimore, No One Left to Press the Police
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Cupertino, start your photocopiers
It looks like Safari 4 copies Chrome’s UI wholesale. Besides Safari’s separate “Address” and “Search” boxes, everything — including Top Sites — is the same. On Windows, the similarity is even more striking. For example, compare this image to this one. Notice that, in addition to the titlebar tabs’ position and the top sites grid, Apple has also copied the...