Monday, February 17, 2003 
Jack Straw from Wichita at the Mars Hotel (U.K.)
Dave Winer says
I've always wondered if Mr Straw knows that his name is the title of a Grateful Dead song. This is why weblogs are so revolutionary. Just kidding." [Scripting News]
I think he does. His boss, Tony Blair, was the frontman for a Dead cover band called Ugly Rumours when he was at university.
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6:18:05 PM 
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Tom the Dancing Bug has been having a great old time lampooning the Wall Street Journal's Lucky Duckies trial balloon that complained about the unfair and progressive U.S. federal income tax.
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6:17:49 PM say what []
The Guardian deconstructs the "Saddam = Hitler" argument (without invoking Godwin's Law!), and turns the table on the question of who is appeasing whom. We'll leave deconstructing the specious "Bush = Hitler" protest signs as an exercise for the class.
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5:09:10 PM say what []
Posing as an interactive game (there's really only one choice, about halfway through, and I suspect it's a Hobson's choice), this Flash animation projects a worst-case scenario for the upcoming (ongoing?) Gulf War.
[via Nick Denton]
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12:18:03 PM say what []
Nick Denton is all over the Bloogle story. I especially like his suggestion that Google should support and open standard for weblog updates and indexing.
12:15:40 PM say what []
Watching late-night TV (Ask Rita), I saw an add for a Homeland security specialist program at NIT schools' San Jose campus. It started with an American flag and a voice over talking about how 9/11 changed everything. Quick cut to a man in a suit introducing himself and calling himself the "Director of Homeland Security." That's not Tom Ridge, I thought. He began talking about the exciting new career opportunities in domestic surveillance, antiterrorism, and law enforcement.
It struck me as both reassuring (America's entrepreneurial spirit absorbs this new threat and turns it into something mundane—a blue-collar technical career) and horrifying (the mainstreaming of domestic spying and the idea that someone might be choosing between appliance repair and homeland security).
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