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Read this interview Bush gave the NY Times. Or, read the Slacktivist rehashing, if you’re short on time. “Showing none of the alarm about the North’s growing arsenal that he once voiced regularly about Iraq, he opened his palms and shrugged when an interviewer noted that new intelligence reports indicate that the North may now have the fuel to produce six or eight nuclear weapons.”

The Seattle Times
editorial page on Friday: “Four years ago, this page endorsed George W. Bush for president. We cannot do so again ? because of an ill-conceived war and its aftermath, undisciplined spending, a shrinkage of constitutional rights and an intrusive social agenda.” [courtesy joe palmer]

Finally! Virtual desktops (or “workspaces” or what-have-you) for OS X in the form of Desktop Manager.

I was looking forward to an inspired analysis of pop culture, audience anticipation, and other factors which contribute to M Night Shyamalan’s near-success as a filmmaker, but once I got past the abstract I discovered that this Kuro5hin article on what’s holding Shyamalan back is simply a list of clauses matching the pattern, “The critical problem with (insert movie) is that, it’s, like, so retarded.“ Brilliant. You may return to your typewriter now, monkey boy.

This story about debugging Microsoft Word (which you probably saw on Slashdot) is a good read, but I must confess that it tickles my PTSD from debugging a certain Very Badly Behaved Application at my previous job. As I read through the story, one subtle bug cascading into the next, it is all too easy for me to imagine my own adventures in Heisenbugs, each lasting for days at a time, as I slowly narrowed down a bizarre interaction of code that translated into disaster for the user.

*twitch*

Some static subversion clients newer than those I found a while ago. (For linux, macosx, and solaris.)

The fourth (!) IEEE conference on peer-to-peer ends today. (Program of talks.)