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Government's 'numbers racket' is about to blow up in our faces

At last, some mainstream coverage of our financial system that is worthy of attention. Marketwatch - Paul Farrell does a nice job of covering Kevin Phillip's new book"Bad Money: Reckless Finance,...

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Henry Poole Quoted on Web Security For Political Campaigns

Our very own Henry Poole was quoted in a PC World article on Barack Obama's web security: read more

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Barack Obama, Al Gore and the Origins of the Internet

This morning Mirasol pointed out on our team mailing list that Al Gore had thrown his support behind Barack Obama. Like Mirasol, I too received Al's message in my in box this morning, and the image...

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Third Party W(r)ench - Paris Swipes McCain. (NSFW)

In May of last year, I wrote a blog entry called "Defending Paris" wherein I expressed compassion for her being locked up. I later wrote that I'd hoped that she'd see the light, have some kind of...

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Democrats and the Reality of the Political Mind

I've been wondering why Sarah Palin has been such a game changer as she's really a female McCain: anti-abortion, anti-environment, the list goes on. Why would people accept her, flock to her? Then I...

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Tweeting the Debate With Current TV

Four years ago at Telephone Bar in NYC, Noel Hidalgo and I talked about an idea to run an IRC back channel during the presidential debates. This morning I saw a tweet from him about remixing the...

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Outsourcing Governance and Democratic Control to Aliens

I was fortunate to have a chance to see Paul Romer talk on Monday night, after a nice dinner at Greens with Jim Kiles. Paul Romer is very well known for his work in the field of "new-growth theory". We...

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URGENT: Unlimited Software Patents In New Zealand. Act Now!

NZ government is about to pass a new Patents Act.  In the 8-year review, they seemingly forgot to consider the impacts of patents on computer software!  Submissions on the bill are being accepted till...

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NZ Software Patents; Meeting With Lianne Dalziel, Commerce Committee...

Today I had a long and very positive meeting about software patents and the NZ Patents Bill with Commerce Committee chairperson, Labour party's Lianne Dalziel, as well as Drupal-peers Dave Lane and...

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Augmented State Of The Union

Tonight is President Obama's second State of the Union address before Congress and the American People.  There has been no shortage of talk about civility (as signified by Republicans and Democrats...

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