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<body><outline text="Jesus has taken the reins at Stuff God Hates for a &lt;a href=&quot;http://stuffgodhates.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/29-sandals/&quot;&gt;discussion on sandals&lt;/a&gt;. Be sure to read the comments." created="Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:16:52 GMT"/><outline text="What? You want &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pamshouseblend.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=5828&quot;&gt;another reason to never read the &lt;cite&gt;Washington Times&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/a&gt;?" created="Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:07:27 GMT"/><outline text="Remind me again why I don't do TeamSpeak. Perhaps because lots of &lt;a href=&quot;http://stupidevilbastard.com/index/seb/comments/tf2_karaoke_will_leave_you_speechless/&quot;&gt;Team Fortress 2 nerds can get together and sing &lt;cite&gt;My Heart Will Go On&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. My ears!" created="Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:27:15 GMT"/><outline text="I meant to link to this the other day - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/06/15/Deletionist-Morons&quot;&gt;Tim Bray on Wikipedia deletionists&lt;/a&gt;. I heartily agree. One of the reasons I use &lt;a href=&quot;http://citizendium.org/&quot;&gt;Citizendium&lt;/a&gt; is that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.larrysanger.org/&quot;&gt;Larry Sanger&lt;/a&gt; is a committed inclusionist." created="Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:20:38 GMT"/><outline text="&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.colinmcginnblog.com/comments.php?y=08&amp;amp;m=06&amp;amp;entry=entry080617-081348&quot;&gt;Colin McGinn&lt;/a&gt; on gay marriage: &lt;q&gt;All this stuff about marriage being between a man and a woman: it's just complete whooey. I really wonder what all those anti-gay-marriage twits out there think and feel when they see a picture like that. Do they feel their own marriages under threat because these two old ladies are finally able to tie the knot? I think we owe them an apology myself.&lt;/q&gt;" created="Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:30:54 GMT"/><outline text="Looks like &lt;a href=&quot;http://builtbydave.co.uk/2008/06/18/plaxo-release-email-addresses/&quot;&gt;Plaxo have fucked up again&lt;/a&gt;. I really don't get the point of Plaxo. It seems to me to be almost completely useless, and this is strike two on the privacy front." created="Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:27:43 GMT"/>
<outline text="Can someone please open Jonathan Zittrain?" created="Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:02:48 GMT"><outline text="The &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7457000/7457841.stm&quot;&gt;&lt;acronym title=&quot;British Broadcasting Corporation&quot;&gt;BBC&lt;/acronym&gt;&lt;/a&gt; reports on Jonathan Zittrain's comments, with frequent &lt;a href=&quot;http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html&quot;&gt;misuse of the word 'hacker'&lt;/a&gt;. The report describes Zittrain as thinking that the very openness of the Internet is leading more and more people to switch to locked platforms like the iPhone, comparing this risk-free 'sterile' environment with a chaotic world of phishing, botnets, distributed denial of service attacks and illegal file sharing networks.&#13;" created="Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:02:48 GMT"/><outline text="But I just don't buy Zittrain's argument. He sees the Internet as having only two sides - basically, insecure Windows installs &lt;em&gt;or&lt;/em&gt; the iPhone. Experience shows otherwise: Linux, the BSD systems (including OS X and Darwin), Java, Apache, and open source. The very existence of these systems knocks a fatal blow in Zittrain's argument. Windows is an anomaly that distorts the argument. And, to be honest, who even uses Windows anymore? Most of the people I know only have a Windows install so they can see how badly IE 6 renders their standards-compliant (X)HTML and CSS or play DirectX games. Even my parents don't use Windows anymore. I remember back in 1997 when I first discovered &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freebsd.org/&quot;&gt;FreeBSD&lt;/a&gt;, the idea that my parents would be using a computer running an OS I could ssh into was completely alien.&#13;" created="Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:02:48 GMT"/><outline text="And the iPhone is an anomaly of an equal scale. I have a mobile phone in my pocket that is smaller than an iPhone, about as sexy, and for which I can write my own applications for (even if it requires me to use painfully bloated Java toolkits) - a privilege that I have exercised. The iPhone distorts this too. Most phones will not be getting significantly more closed. And &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/android/&quot;&gt;Android&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openmoko.com/&quot;&gt;OpenMoko&lt;/a&gt; and the array of &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/03/eight_great_lin.html&quot;&gt;Linux phones&lt;/a&gt; seem to be pointing in the opposite direction. The fact that six million people downloaded Firefox 3 yesterday seems to suggest that people are perfectly at home with open platforms." created="Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:02:48 GMT"/></outline></body>
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