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Monthly Archives: November 2004
The Digital Bourgeoisie
Instapundit talks about how easily accessible bits are changing the fundamentals of several industries, and finds the creeping hand of Karl Marx. For example in computer software the first indication came when the falling price of computers crossed the point … Continue reading
Tagged Economics, Media, Technology
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Unexpected MOOX Benefit
I decided to try out the optimized MOOX Firefox builds today (I used the SSE-ready M2 build of Firefox 1.0). An interesting quirk I observed is that the text reflow bug #217527 that caused havoc on Slashdot goes away with … Continue reading
Tagged Software, Tips
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Jointness in Fallujah
The Belmont Club and The Adventures of Chester have excellent coverage of the Fallujah campaign. What I find interesting is how well the Marines have adapted to urban combat. Of course, there was a huge body of literature on the … Continue reading
Superpower Baiting
The contents of previously unreleased 14 minutes of OBL’s tape are eerily similar to what John Robb has been writing about for some time. (If you don’t read him regularly, you should.) While this shows OBL is far from being … Continue reading
Partisan Hats and Academic Hats
Joshua Allen notes that Tanenbaum — in his current incarnation as the Votemaster — does not seem to be too rigorous about statistics. I was struck by this as well, while going through the Votemaster FAQ, where he accepts the … Continue reading
Tagged Science, US
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Death of a Broadsheet
One of those end-of-an-era moments: The Times is now a tabloid (or, in their own words, a ‘compact’). In other news, folk who wish to continue hiding behind their newspapers on the Tube switch to the Telegraph. That said, having … Continue reading
Tagged Media
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Strategic Nationalism
I missed this, but thanks to the wonders of the Bharatiya Blogger’s Digest er, Blog Mela, I was able to find Madhu’s screed on Indian-ness. He asks how he can strongly identify with India when on many points (go read … Continue reading