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<body><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.bibrik.com/archives/2007/07/harry_potter_vs_the_iphone.html&quot;&gt;Rachel Clarke&lt;/a&gt; has a nice comparison of Harry Potter 7 vs. the iPhone. Both inspire crazy people to stay up all-night to buy them. Personally, I only stay up all night to fix weird bugs in Python scripts, piece together supposedly forgotten technologies (RDF, Z39.50, outliners, &lt;a href=&quot;http://tommorris.org/blog/2007/01/03#When:20:11:53&quot;&gt;Gopher&lt;/a&gt;) and obsessively document my utterly dull life (and send out not-very-subtle propaganda attempts at friends) on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.twitter.com&quot;&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;. But queuing up to buy things? &lt;em&gt;Freaks!&lt;/em&gt;" created="Sat, 21 Jul 2007 15:47:03 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.whileseated.org/photo/003244.shtml&quot;&gt;Michael David Murphy&lt;/a&gt; has a brilliantly illustrated post on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/10/1413220&quot;&gt;Jena Six&lt;/a&gt; controversy, which seems like an astoundingly clear case of racism. If it had not been for race, the charges brought against these students would not be nearly as high." created="Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:59:35 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oreillynet.com/xml/blog/2007/07/wheres_xml_going.html&quot;&gt;Kurt Cagle&lt;/a&gt; has a great post on the future of XML." created="Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:52:15 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/07/face-of-the-d-4.html&quot;&gt;Andrew Sullivan&lt;/a&gt; has an amusing picture from the Harry Potter launch in London. And, in related news, &lt;a href=&quot;http://digg.com/music/There_is_no_God_Spice_Girls_are_back_together_again_announce_reunion&quot;&gt;this Digg story&lt;/a&gt; is theologising, and I agree. Why would a loving God subject the poor souls he has created to the existence of Victoria Beckham? Perhaps it's one of them 'challenges' he sets to prove that we are good people." created="Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:50:13 GMT"/><outline text="You know Dave Winer had a motto once - &quot;It's worse than it appears&quot;. That's what went through my mind &lt;em&gt;immediately&lt;/em&gt; when I read &lt;a href=&quot;http://worsethanfailure.com/Articles/It%E2%80%99s-Just-a-Wiring-Problem.aspx&quot;&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;. The bit about the Windows ME server which &quot;was completely overrun with spyware, viruses, and several instances of &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonzi_Buddy&quot;&gt;BonziBUDDY&lt;/a&gt;&quot; being... the credit-card server. I want to tear my eyeballs out, that is so scary." created="Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:32:58 GMT"/><outline text="I love these &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6902541.stm&quot;&gt;endless DVB standards&lt;/a&gt;. Does anyone still pay any attention to these? Or are we all just using XviD files and putting them on big hard drives and &lt;abbr title=&quot;Secure Digital&quot;&gt;SD&lt;/abbr&gt; cards. TV on mobile seems as relevant as &lt;abbr title=&quot;Multimedia Message Service&quot;&gt;MMS&lt;/abbr&gt;. DVB-H relies on spectrum allocation too. Why bother? Use that spectrum for TCP/IP, and use the money wasted on this pointless standard on making TCP/IP rates cheaper across Europe. That will do the job far better than writing pointless standards." created="Sat, 21 Jul 2007 13:23:42 GMT"/><outline text="Everybody's favourite epistemic anti-foolishness campaigner, Ophelia Benson is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pointofinquiry.org/?p=119&quot;&gt;interviewed this week on Point of Inquiry&lt;/a&gt;. Go Ophelia!" created="Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:19:56 GMT"/><outline text="A superb &lt;a href=&quot;http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/07/all_the_mistakes_of_the_godly.php#comment-504242&quot;&gt;analysis of the difference between the moderates and the extremists&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href=&quot;http://primatediaries.blogspot.com/2007/07/todays-math-lesson.html&quot;&gt;via&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2007/07/we_all_seem_to_be_in_an_arithm.php&quot;&gt;via&lt;/a&gt;)." created="Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:47:07 GMT"/><outline text="The latest &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jesusandmo.net/2007/07/20/crude/&quot;&gt;Jesus and Mo&lt;/a&gt; is fantastic. You couldn't sum up the vapidity of 'sophisticated' theology in a more concise manner than this." created="Sat, 21 Jul 2007 01:41:24 GMT"/>
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