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Fun With Crap in the New York Times Stylesheet
I always like reading the stylesheets for websites– they are windows into the attitude and personality of the site developer. To find a stylesheet, just right-click inside the window of any site and choose "View Source". Then do a search for "css". It’s always in the head (or beginning) of the document. Here’s the head…
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The Danger of the Fetish of Nostalgia
Here’s a look from the NYT at what can happen when a memorial to the dead becomes a showcase of the ruling class: People destroyed the memorial to the gassing of the Kurds. So it came as a shock when hundreds of stone-throwing protesters took to the streets here Thursday on the anniversary, beating back…
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Askariya Shrine in Ruins
This is very bad. Like civil war/ no turning back/ Archduke Ferdinand bad. Here’s Robert Worth’s lead in the NYT today: A powerful bomb shattered the golden dome at one of Iraq’s most revered Shiite shrines on Wednesday morning, setting off a day of sectarian fury in which mobs formed across Iraq to chant for…
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International Communications Data Mining by the NSA: Sounds Good to Me
Today’s New York Times has a long story about how the NSA is monitoring all international electronic communication. They also have a news story that shows what the agency actually does: The agency has traced and analyzed the traffic flow – looking at who is calling whom, where calls originate and end, and other patterns…
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No More John F. Burns Archive
So I’ve decided to stop updating the John F. Burns Archive. There are 180 posts in there– many of them are the complete text of his articles, mostly from the beginning of this second Gulf War we find ourselves in. I then decided to go to an “excerpts plus permalinks to free version on nyt.com”…