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  1. Don't you love it when Microsoft's solution to a security flaw is "disable javascript"... http://bit.ly/77ZVJj
  2. I really want to see how the GOP opposes the proposed war tax. Any response yet? http://bit.ly/4WpD50
  3. SixthSense software to be open sourced, device already $300 off the shelf. Amazing. http://bit.ly/8H1MRE
  4. "Fine print is the biggest scam of all time." - Sen Rockefeller on online scams, but true of many industries. http://bit.ly/5gY5xr
  5. Microsoft wants to pay newspapers to prevent Google from indexing them. What a way to gain market share. Will it work? http://bit.ly/7bym3W
  6. via @BoingBoing: It's healthy to be a little dirty. http://bit.ly/081mq6c
  7. Like motorcycle repair, programming "is sometimes frustrating, but it is never irrational." (I love both.) http://bit.ly/YzK6T
  8. Pakistan is heading for a demographic catastrophe if its government and economy don't radically improve fast, http://bit.ly/8Jr0gO
  9. I started reading an amazing book recently, Matthew Crawford's "Shop Class as Soulcraft." Will blog about it soon. http://bit.ly/6ZtReu
  10. My thoughts on auditing the Fed. (I'm against it but not entirely comfortable with that view): http://benbuck.net/b/5294
  11. I really don't like @twitter's new retweet feature: no way to comment before retweeting. Leave it organic!
  12. RT @alexwhalen: @EzraKlein looks ahead: "It's all cloture votes, all the time." Whatever else this is, its not a representative democrac ...
  13. "Iran. Iraq. Whatever." Can you imagine what the world would be like if Palin was the Vice President? http://bit.ly/44Vrns
  14. The House adopts Ron Paul's plan to audit the Fed. It just seems like no good could possibly come of that. http://bit.ly/tv18Q
  15. 52% majority of GOP voters think ACORN stole the '08 election for Obama. Not news, but that base is NUTS. http://bit.ly/3gzFB7
  16. Thomas Friedman gives up on the peace process; I agree; my reading of Israel's rationale, http://benbuck.net/b/5284
  17. Aww, AT&T, the truth does hurt. http://bit.ly/1879fk
  18. http://twitpic.com/pqzzo - My project yesterday was a cat playground
  19. via @ezraklein: economists expect excise tax on premium employer HC benefits => cheaper plans => higher wages. http://bit.ly/3OuqJ6
  20. It seems the "cuts" in Medicare result from payments *growing* "roughly 1/2 the rate" as before. Why do they need to rise faster?